Gear Porn ... and a special moment ... and what the pros said about the 1D Mk III

leinsterman

Ok ... I did the Dublin v Kerry match today ... great experience ... have a shed load of keepers ... probably more to do with having two bodies this time ... makes a big difference to your shooting ability ... plus the 5D gives you options you don't have with the crop bodies ... (Valentia ... that shot we discussed may be in the bag thanks to your 5D ) ...

Spoke to a few 1D Mk III using pros after the game and they are all happy with it ... the proportion of keepers is much the same as they would expect ... though they all said it was no better than previous cameras including - D3X (I think ... Nikon model numbers are not my field) and 1D MkIIN ... which is possibly a bad sign since the AF is supposed to be "improved" ... none of the photographer using it were familiar with the CFn settings ...

Anyways got my conflict shot in the bag ... need to post it, hope it is not too late ... but in the interim these two are probably not the best ones but I'm posting em here for obvious reasons ... more to come in my flickr -

Even with my 100-400L I felt mighty inadequate amongst this crowd:



And ... while this is not my best action shot ... it is 1 second before the moment the Dubs challenge was effectively ended for this season (bloody doctor bloke got in the way ) -

Valentia

Deadly Simon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I said on Flickr, more please. Get 'em up before you get too comfortable.

leinsterman

My personal favorite -

leinsterman

Valentia wrote:

Deadly Simon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I said on Flickr, more please. Get 'em up before you get too comfortable.

Could have done it without your camera ... thanks!!

leinsterman

For those in the know about Irish sport -



... may be better in B&W

miju

lollers its a small world. i actually saw you take that picture. the navy car in the background is my Alfa 147

Valentia

leinsterman wrote:

Could have done it without your camera ... thanks!!

What??? Could have?? ;-)

leinsterman

Valentia wrote:

What??? Could have?? ;-)

Obviously the word "not" is missing from the last sentence ...

Borderfox

great shots simon.

thebaz

my favorite , would be your favorite --
it sums the Dubs up as well 2nd best yet again -- Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

roll on the rugby , anyway who cares about another Munster final

Borderfox

Cracking good shot, captures the day really well with the action an the crowd in shot. Who were you working for in Croke Park?

leinsterman wrote:

My personal favorite -

rymus

I was wondering why you looked so pleased with yourself as we drove past you on our way home... well done, great shots

leinsterman

Here is a little collage of some of the more "special" moments from the game -

Deacon Blues

Heh ... doctor bloke ...

Great shots. Well done.

thebaz

nice shots Simon , as good as anything i saw in the papers -- you also captured Mark Vaughans performance

Borderfox

I would say a lot better than what I seen today.

Valentia

Excellent! How did you do the collage in the end?

leinsterman

Valentia wrote:

Excellent! How did you do the collage in the end?

I wrote a Macro to covert and resize the square prints into polaroids ... got the central print and resized the canvas ... and then placed the polaroids around the edge each with its own layer ...