Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park. Perfect shooting conditions from level 3 and on the ground.
This round was held on Saturday night at Etihad Stadium under an open roof and with the sun still shining (a little bit). So changing light conditions meant starting out at around ISO 1600 and finishing the night at ISO 2500. Almost 1 f-stop difference. Doesn’t sound much but its enough to make sure you’ve […]
I shot the Boyd Baker House yesterday for a future magazine story. This is a significant piece of Australia’s architecture history. It’s a beautiful house but very difficult to shoot on a bright sunny day. Some of the shots are HDR and some are balanced with fill flash inside the house. I only had a […]
A muggy night at Etihad stadium hosted some great action. I sat on the south west corner: At last week’s match I was on the south east side of the pitch. Here is a link to the gallery.
A beautiful Spring afternoon match. No sun across AAMI Park. ISO 800 at the start of the match before the sun set. Small crowd and pretty uneventful match. More pics here.
Round 10 of the A-League was back at Etihad Stadium. Since its been raining the match was under a closed roof. This is the first match at Etihad this season as the first 9 rounds were at the new AAMI stadium. I like Etihad from a photographer’s perspective. The facilities are much better. At AAMI […]
Shooting an international road cycling event is a huge buzz. Here’s a post about how the day unfolded when I shot the UCI Road World Championships for Southcreek. The arrival – 8.30am The first part of the day is rider sign on. For the 2010 Worlds this was in Melbourne. It’s the first Worlds where […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Beautiful light from big black storm clouds today and a muddy pitch. Slideshow.
Overcast and gloomy afternoon for soccer. Slideshow
The current issue of Goal Weekly has a cover with my image from the socceroos training session. It looks great – tabloid size
Farewell event at Melbourne Airport. Awful lighting conditions for photos. Slideshow here.
Here’s my favourite image from the match. Slideshow here
A couple of photos from the farewell match between Australia and New Zealand at the MCG. This is the 3D camera that shot the match. Apparently the first 3D football match televised. Note the position of the camera means that the usual position for the photographers at the end of the pitch can’t be used […]
