G'day all Knowing that cricket is a bit of a mystery to many of our North American and European friends, perhaps I should have chosen one of these images for the 'Bewildering' PUG theme.
Anyway.... Each year, my wife and I usually take in a day's cricket at the final game of the season at the Sydney Cricket Ground. This year the match was between the New South Wales 'Blues' and the South Australian 'Redbacks' (not sure why a cricket team should be named after a deadly spider - their cricket this season has been anything but deadly). To be fair, though, the NSW team hasn't exactly set the world alight this year either, so this final match was being played for pride only. NSW won the toss and batted, which seemed to be a poor decision early on when all three of their international opening batsmen were out cheaply. Fortunately, the middle order fired and NSW finished the day well placed and eventually won this 4 day match in 3 days. Photographically, I generally drag out the 300mm f5.6 Tamron SP adaptall with its dedicated 2x adapter. The combination gives good reach but, of course, its awfully slow. In previous years this hasn't been too much of a problem but this year the day was very dull and overcast - so much so that the ground floodlights were on for the entire day's play. To get any sort of reasonable shutter speed I was shooting wide open at ISO 800/1600 and focussing was a real problem. Eventually I had to take off the 2x adapter and resign myself to some serious cropping in post. Anyway - here's a small gallery of the more acceptable images. Most have been cropped to some extent. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/SCG-March2010/index.html Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
