October's topic "Sports"

**[XC] 2long4u** · 10-06-2008, 11:12 PM

You can post up to 5 pictures.
You can choose any sport you want, and shoot it however you want.

**.Logic** · 10-07-2008, 12:39 AM

Ugh... you mean we have to shoot... people?

...alright, I'll see what a can conjure up

**Nate P.** · 10-09-2008, 02:55 PM

This is primarily what I shoot.

Ouch!

Good luck guys, get those pictures in!

**Soulburner** · 10-09-2008, 02:59 PM

**Deluge** · 10-09-2008, 04:20 PM

Haha, Nate, that last one is great. Perfect action shot.

Thought I'd add a pic of my own, though I have no intention of winning anything. I just like it cause it looks so bada$$

high school track for you:

**Nate P.** · 10-09-2008, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by Deluge

Haha, Nate, that last one is great. Perfect action shot.

Yeah dude, he got pretty beat up, painful to watch.

**Shadowmage** · 10-18-2008, 10:18 AM

Lucky me, I've been taking my DSLR to the football game for a couple of times now.

Here are some of my favorite shots. I'll add more as I find them... I haven't really dug through the shots yet :p

Taken with a Nikon D40, 55-200mm VR Nikon lens.

**Shadowmage** · 10-19-2008, 07:03 PM

Soulburner what kind of lens do you use? I would like to get sharp pictures like you (provided that your lens doesn't cost $1000 :p)

I took my pics with a D40 + 55-200 VR. Since I'm in a stadium, I really need the telephoto (my 70-300 Nikon 1/4-5.6 had the proper zoom range but had blurry pics at 300mm)

What do you suggest?

**Soulburner** · 10-20-2008, 02:00 AM

Nikkor 70-300 VR. Proper focus and fast shutter speeds help a lot. You could get very similar images with the 55-200 VR.

In yours above, you had some motion blur.

**Knight203** · 10-20-2008, 03:23 PM

My favorite sport

**[XC] 2long4u** · 10-20-2008, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Shadowmage

Soulburner what kind of lens do you use? I would like to get sharp pictures like you (provided that your lens doesn't cost $1000 :p)

I took my pics with a D40 + 55-200 VR. Since I'm in a stadium, I really need the telephoto (my 70-300 Nikon 1/4-5.6 had the proper zoom range but had blurry pics at 300mm)

What do you suggest?

Try your 70-300 on a tripod. You might not have enough light to stop your movement.

**Shadowmage** · 10-21-2008, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by [XC] 2long4u

Try your 70-300 on a tripod. You might not have enough light to stop your movement.

Yeah, that's definitely a good point. Unfortunately though I can't bring a tripod into the stadium... It's hard enough to "sneak in" my 70-300 lens + hood since it's so long already :p

**Nate P.** · 10-21-2008, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Malcontent

My favorite sport

[snip]

Get rid of those Tensors, Krux are nicer.

**inCore** · 10-21-2008, 02:12 PM

BS, Tensor mids ftw

Oh man, I haven't skated in a while, them damn ankles gave up

Soulburner, I'm a fan of the black and white picture, something classy about it. Good work guys.

**Soulburner** · 10-21-2008, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by [XC] 2long4u

Try your 70-300 on a tripod. You might not have enough light to stop your movement.

His pics show motion blur though, which is caused by having shutter speeds too slow. Looking at it some more though, it could be some of both.

Originally Posted by inCore

Soulburner, I'm a fan of the black and white picture, something classy about it. Good work guys.

Thanks

**Shadowmage** · 10-21-2008, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Soulburner

His pics show motion blur though, which is caused by having shutter speeds too slow. Looking at it some more though, it could be some of both.

Since it's sometimes difficult to detect small amounts of blur from the camera LCD screen. Is there some kind of "golden rule" for shutter speeds? I know that I was taking pictures at speeds in excess of 1/1000 s.

**Soulburner** · 10-23-2008, 01:53 AM

Can you post the EXIF data on the pics? I have a hard time believing that was over 1/1000, as that would freeze all motion and camera shake.

**Knight203** · 10-23-2008, 06:38 PM

Tensors are nice they need to stay tight though it bugs me to have to tighten my trucks twice a day. :/ Never used Krux though they seem like good trucks. I havent been able to skate for 8 months I tore up my knee real bad and its not looking good for the next 8 months

**Revv23** · 10-23-2008, 08:55 PM

shadowmage wins so far imo... these are all sweet but im a UofM fan.

**kylepaddock** · 10-24-2008, 07:53 AM

this is considerd a sport

**[XC] 2long4u** · 10-24-2008, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Shadowmage

Since it's sometimes difficult to detect small amounts of blur from the camera LCD screen. Is there some kind of "golden rule" for shutter speeds? I know that I was taking pictures at speeds in excess of 1/1000 s.

Soulburner correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't you do between 1 and 1.5x the focal length?

So if you were at 200mm you would want between 1/200 and 1/300 of a second.

By the way I love your shots. I'm going to San Francisco this weekend but I'm not expecting much.

**Aerou** · 10-25-2008, 03:59 AM

sorry for posting so late
one day my friends went to their favourite dirt track and I decided to jump in the van

**Knight203** · 10-26-2008, 03:00 AM

Might want to up the shutter speed on those type of shots if you can. Can you post what you took those at?

**Qwik** · 10-26-2008, 07:10 AM

I'm a huge baseball fan try to go to all the spring training games.....

takin with my trusty Canon SD870is

**Hoboclese** · 10-26-2008, 05:51 PM

this is me and a couple of mates racing (its just started)

i'm the one in the sunglasses and cap

i got a friend to take it does that count?

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