I shot the first day of racing at Bailey Bridge. Managed to get almost every rider at around the same location. This is the winner Emma Pooley from Great Britain:
The next day was familiarisation. This is the start-finish line up a long straight road in the heart of Geelong: and getting the photographer’s bib – with a $50 deposit:
On Monday, the hype started with a press conference with the Swiss team. Fabian Cancellara is the red hot favourite to take out the time trial and maybe the road race as well…
So the last few days have been focused on shooting cycling. It kicked off last Sunday with a warm up race to the UCI Road World Championships. The first time this event has been held outside the Northern Hemisphere. The warm up race was held in Ballarat. This shot was taken with a 400mm with […]
So the Eye-fi card works fine with the Aluratek router. For the next test, is it compatible with a Telstra 3G USB modem? Well it sure is. Here’s the modem plugged into the router’s slot: There’s one trick to setting it up – you need to choose some manual settings. The config that’s embedded in […]
I got intrigued by Rob Galbraith’s post on Wireless photography with an iPad and ShutterSnitch so I got the bits referred to in his article and am trying to replicate it. Aluratek modem and Eye-Fi cards from Adorama. All good so far…
An overcast afternoon for this match. Shot the first half from Level 3 of the stadium giving a really clean background to the images. Link to gallery here.
First weekend with no rain for quite a few weeks. Had a 10.5mm fisheye from Nikon on a D300s body. I was surprised how much better the D3 and D3s is still compared with the D300s sensor. Also shot some of the football with my 1.7 teleconverter. The images were pretty good and nothing beats […]
With all the rain and storms around I thought I’d stay off the football pitch and do some table top photography. Inspired by a blog article by Clint Decker on his Flickr page via Petapixel, I followed his instructions and set out to do some of my own “shooting things falling into water”. Click on […]
I bought an Expodisc in April 2008 and used it when shooting the Victorian Barista Championships. The event was held down at venue that had the worse lighting conditions imaginable. There were fluoros, low voltage downlights, sunlight coming through tinted windows and colored lights that lit the stage. Having shot at this venue previously I […]
This was an afternoon match, starting at 3pm. The weather was beautiful with bright sunshine. However, this posed a real conundrum for shooting position. The sun was lighting half the stadium when the match started. If you positioned yourself in the shade then then shooting players in the sunshine meant either the image is going […]
I have been on the Internet since 1995, selling Apple Newton software via email and web sites. I co-founded Australia’s largest free ISP in 2000 and I’ve built 3 other online-Internet companies. I can claim to know a bit about online businesses. In the April 2000 Internet, telco and tech meltdown, one of the catalyst […]
A beautiful morning for soccer. Here are the photos.
Thursday night was the opening match of the 2010-11 A-League. Here are some images of the new 11th team, Melbourne Heart playing the Central Coast Mariners. In the last minute of injury time the Heart goalkeeper decided to try to score from a corner kick set play. Pretty cool if he had done so. Full […]
I had a meeting in Sydney with the promoter of the Sydney Festival of Football so I took the opportunity to shoot the AEK Athens v Glasgow Rangers match at the Sydney Football Stadium. Have a look at the images here.
I’ve been using the Gitzo GM5540 monopod for a couple of years and it’s a beast. It’s the beefiest monopod Gitzo make and while its carbon fibre it may a well be steel. I’ve got a couple of trips coming up where I need to take a monopod and I’ve been looking at something lighter […]
Shot this pre-season friendly tonight. Used a new monopod tonight – will post more info about this shortly. Meanwhile, enjoy the action.
Shot some images for the Football Federation Victoria today at the new AAMI Park. It was a glorious winter day with bright blue skies. The brief was to highlight the stadium with Australian Matilda’s captain Melissa Barbieri, former Socceroo Danny Tiatto and FFV CEO Mark Rendell. I won’t say what the images are going to […]
This lens arrived 2 days before my London trip and I took it away with me coupled to a D700. It was my only lens and it was a perfect travel lens. All these photos are shot with it which shows you how versatile it is.
Just spent a week in London talking to the organiser of the 2012 games about RedTxt opportunities. The site is amazing. There are some photos here.
Pretty rare these days but my Mac Pro has developed some bad RAM. Swapped it out for a 2GB DIMM and all’s well again.
A few readers have asked for a comparison image with no noise reduction processing in Lightroom 3. Here are comparison images. LR2, LR3 with no NR and LR3 with luminance NR at 40. Click through to see them at 100%
Adobe’s new version of Lightroom has some serious new improvements in noise reduction. Here are 4 images at ISO 102,400 and 51,200 on a Nikon D3s processed with LR3. This is one good reason to shoot in RAW as when I first looked at these images in Lightroom 2 they were horrible. But re-processed in […]
Shot a special event for Liberian refugees for the Football Federation of Victoria. Slideshow. The girls played a game called Kickball – like baseball with a round ball and the boys/men had a regular game. Tony Dunkerley, the president of the FFV attended.
