[Ex Finn.]

The news here is that my daughter's high school varsity team won their conference championship!

I got permission to shoot from the sidelines and, given the weather forecast (scattered showers), decided to take the two k-5s: Sigma 70-200/2.8 on the monopod and the Tamron 28-75/2.8 on a Black Rapid strap. I put an Op-Teck rainsleeve on the Sigma and kept the Tamron under my poncho. The forecast was accurate: there was drizzle mixed with sun at first and the game was interrupted for two hours early in the 2nd half by a thunderstorm. The gear seems to have come through ok but it was a bit challenging. One aggravation was that the rainsleeve made chimping impossible. Combined with the changing light conditions that that left me with some interesting PP challenges. Still, I was able to put together a collection of reasonably decent photos for the girls and their families.















It was a terrific team--skilled, flexible and cohesive and comprised of top-notch girls.

Nice shots by you and congratulations to the champions.

[RonHendriks1966]

Have you tried shooting at a smaller MP size or lower quality to see if that gives you more frames in a burst?

This treath started before the camera was to the market and specs where different as stated in this this thread then when the first firmware update came.

The news here is that my daughter's high school varsity team won their conference championship!

I got permission to shoot from the sidelines and, given the weather forecast (scattered showers), decided to take the two k-5s: Sigma 70-200/2.8 on the monopod and the Tamron 28-75/2.8 on a Black Rapid strap. I put an Op-Teck rainsleeve on the Sigma and kept the Tamron under my poncho. The forecast was accurate: there was drizzle mixed with sun at first and the game was interrupted for two hours early in the 2nd half by a thunderstorm. The gear seems to have come through ok but it was a bit challenging. One aggravation was that the rainsleeve made chimping impossible. Combined with the changing light conditions that that left me with some interesting PP challenges. Still, I was able to put together a collection of reasonably decent photos for the girls and their families.

Congrats on that victorie. Somehow lacrosse looks good in the images I see, but the few games I went to didn't gave me the magic. Maybe it is due to the low skills off the girls overhere.

[dadipentak]

Somehow lacrosse looks good in the images I see, but the few games I went to didn't gave me the magic. Maybe it is due to the low skills off the girls overhere.

That's probably it--I was unimpressed by field hockey until the girls started to get good at it.

[RonHendriks1966]

That's probably it--I was unimpressed by field hockey until the girls started to get good at it.

Yes, and the girls overhere are very good at field hockey.

[dadipentak]

Yes, and the girls overhere are very good at field hockey.

Not surprisingly, many of the girls on the lacrosse team also play field hockey in the fall.

[RonHendriks1966]

I was at the Cupfinal womenssoccer in Germany in Cologne today. Wonderfull game between VFL Wolfsburg and FFC Turbine Potsdam (3-2) and saw an awesome game at a playing level no Dutch team can bring at this time.

This is the cup accepted by Wolfsburg captain Nadine Kessler:



This with my K-5 Silver and DA*300mm. Now my K-5 is over 140k actuations. I think I was working with the longest lens for this ceremonie, where there where at least 60 photographers. Offcourse no other Pentax. Lots off 7D (70-200 lens) and lots off 1Dx and D4 camera's.

[jva59]

I was at the Cupfinal womenssoccer in Germany in Cologne today. Wonderfull game between VFL Wolfsburg and FFC Turbine Potsdam (3-2) and saw an awesome game at a playing level no Dutch team can bring at this time.

This is the cup accepted by Wolfsburg captain Nadine Kessler:



This with my K-5 Silver and DA*300mm. Now my K-5 is over 140k actuations. I think I was working with the longest lens for this ceremonie, where there where at least 60 photographers. Offcourse no other Pentax. Lots off 7D (70-200 lens) and lots off 1Dx and D4 camera's.

Grossartig!

[Fletcher Davies]

Another Equine image taken last weekend at The Dodson and Horrell Chatsworth International Horse Trials with a Pentax K5lls and Pentax DA* 50mm - 130mm

[dosdan]

Another Equine image taken last weekend at The Dodson and Horrell Chatsworth International Horse Trials with a Pentax K5lls and Pentax DA* 50mm - 130mm

A winning shot!

The only suggestion I can offer is perhaps try a tighter crop on the right, as I think it's a little empty on this side. So rather than centering the jump, try positioning it two-thirds across the frame.

It would be interesting to see, in a burst sequence, the next shot with the horse fully in the air, horizontal above the obstacle.

Well done,
Dan.

[dadipentak]

Horse Trials

I've never been much interested in horses but it's impossible not to admire the feat in progress there.

[RonHendriks1966]

The only suggestion I can offer is perhaps try a tighter crop on the right, as I think it's a little empty on this side. So rather than centering the jump, try positioning it two-thirds across the frame.

But then you loose the audience with the Beagle on the Gentle Leader, so that I wouldn't do myself. I maybe would have used a longer lens, not having the audience.

[Fletcher Davies]

The audience needed to be within the shot for publication of the event. However, I take your point on isolating the action of the horse and rider.

[tcrick]

How about cropping on the left instead to get closer and also having the horse moving into the frame?

[mattb123]

Shot some mountain bike Enduro racing last night with the 60-250.
I probably should have stopped down a little more and increased ISO to maintain high shutter speeds.
This is just a small fun race so I'm getting used to shooting with this lens for some big races coming this weekend.

[aurele]

This is just a small fun race so I'm getting used to shooting with this lens for some big races coming this weekend.

this looks promising !