Don't look if you like sport!

joolsveer

I know little or nothing about sport but here are a few of my efforts at capturing some scenes on the "sun kissed sward". I hope you enjoy them and offer advice on how they might be improved.

Although I am not volunteering to be abused I would prefer that you direct your invective against the photographer rather than the subject(s). Something like "play the ball and not the man".

captain P

The expressions on their faces in the second one are fantastic!!

I didn't post in your other thread, but i think your architecture shots were by far the best, some were very nice.

joolsveer

captain P wrote:

The expressions on their faces in the second one are fantastic!!

I didn't post in your other thread, but i think your architecture shots were by far the best, some were very nice.

Thanks Captain P. That one was published in the Us book last year.

EireRoadUser

Jools ,I'm not a photographer or anything but I would think that sports shots are best when theres a good depth of field.

Doesn't be seem to be great light in the first two shots.

joolsveer

EireRoadUser wrote:

Jools ,I'm not a photographer or anything but I would think that sports shots are best when theres a good depth of field.

Doesn't be seem to be great light in the first two shots.

I am not sure that I understand your point but I would guess that you might mean a shallow depth of field. I don't have the data on those shots available but I think I used a 80-200 which is 5.6 wide open at 200mm so it is never going to give the shallow depth of field that a press photographer can use with a longer lens that opens up to say 2.8.

EireRoadUser

Thats exactly what i was talking about ,I know the lenses the professionals use are good for that .
Would that mean then that it's impossible to get a good shot unless you are right on the line behind the goal or something?

joolsveer

EireRoadUser wrote:

Thats exactly what i was talking about ,I know the lenses the professionals use are good for that .
Would that mean then that it's impossible to get a good shot unless you are right on the line behind the goal or something?

I don't really have much experience of taking photos at sports events but when I've seen sports photographers at work they seem to use very long lenses with huge front elements and supported by monopods. So it's probably an area that you would need to specialise in to justify the equipment purchases.

EireRoadUser

joolsveer wrote:

I don't really have much experience of taking photos at sports events but when I've seen sports photographers at work they seem to use very long lenses with huge front elements and supported by monopods. So it's probably an area that you would need to specialise in to justify the equipment purchases.

Me neither jools , I keep thinking of going to an Irish rally and try and hide in a bush and get a few nice rally shots.
Any experiences jools in motor sports at all ?

joolsveer

I used go to the motor racing in the Phoenix Park years ago to take photos but I had a longer lens for my Pentax Spotmatic. I think the fastest film I could get at the time was 400 ASA (for some reason people seem to use ISO now). I took some shots on slide film at drag racing in Canada in 1977. I will post a shot here if I can find it.

joolsveer

EireRoadUser

Thanks for that jools, where you living in ireland and on holiday in canada in 1977.
Looks like you were lucky to get that car at all the speed the camera was travelling at.

joolsveer

EireRoadUser wrote:

Thanks for that jools, where you living in ireland and on holiday in canada in 1977.
Looks like you were lucky to get that car at all the speed the camera was travelling at.

Yes it was a holiday. We travelled around Alberta went to the Calgary Stampede and camping in the Rockies.

EireRoadUser

You were ahead of your time so ,can't imagine anyone in my family being able for anything like that in 1977.
It's good to be able to talk to someone with such a good history in photography.

Again thanks for sharing it.

halenger

joolsveer wrote:

I think the fastest film I could get at the time was 400 ASA (for some reason people seem to use ISO now).

Pretty irrelevant to your thread I'm afraid but.....

ASA - American Standards Association
ISO - International Standards Organisation

That's the reason behind the switch to ISO. It's supposed to be more global standards. I don't know if the ASA still exist or if they were what ISO is now. Pure guesswork.