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 set of images here.
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Another season of A-League starts
AEK Athens v Glasgow Rangers @ Sydney Football Stadium
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.
Gitzo GM3860C Monopod
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 for quite awhile. When the GM3860C was announced about a year ago I thought this would be sturdy enough and when I saw it on an Aussie site Camerapro that was the same price as the US online shops like Adorama I thought I’d get one and try it out with the intention of replacing it. Here’s a photo of the smaller and lighter 3860 last night. It was certainly sturdy enough – it’s rated for 15kg which is more than enough for a D3 and a 400mm:
And here’s a comparison. While they look similar the 3860 has a swivel head on it so it’s in reality 2.5 in shorter.
Boca Juniors v Melbourne Victory
Shot this pre-season friendly tonight. Used a new monopod tonight – will post more info about this shortly. Meanwhile, enjoy the action.
FFV shoot at AAMI Park
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 be used for yet but it was a good opportunity to do strobist techniques. I lit the subjects with a SB800 on a light stand bounced off an umbrella. The flash was triggered with an SU800. I trusted the D3’s metering and set it to A mode f11 with compensation set at -0.7 to give the sky a rich blue and set the flash to +2.0 to balance the foreground with the background and give a high-key feel to the image. The first 3 images are scouting shots and the bottom image is an example image shot with these settings. More images here. Let me know what you think. PS – this is what the images were used for.
