Monday, 1 April 2013

Sport by Kristen

So this theme was announced and instead of going eek, I went excellent! We had tickets to the opening game of the AFL season, perfect, or so I thought.

What I can tell you is a 200mm lens is nowhere near long enough to get photos of activity on the field, unless perhaps you are sitting on the fence line. Night games also mean bumping the ISO right up as I don't have a wonderful fast zoom (the f2.8 70 - 200 is HIGH on my wishlist but low on my priority list) so mot of the pics are grainy. Sitting in the back rom of the tier means crowd shots are limited too - there are a lot of backs of heads.

I ended up deciding to go for the colour and atmosphere given that the pictures of players look like ants. So here are the best 3 of a very ordinary but interesting effort.

Starting them young:



Avid supporter


Full House



4 comments:

  1. huge croud! and those 2 young supporters, highlights just how much AFL means to so many (ok sorry, from someone who really has not much love for the sport :-o )

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  2. You really captured the spirit of the game and crowd with these shots. Colour and atmosphere is definitely more important than being noise free!

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  3. I can really feel the atmosphere from these, well done! :)

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  4. Nice! Love the crowd shot :)

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