I always thought that Cricket was a part of the British divide and conquer strategy.
Bob W wrote: > That's a classic shot. > > You realise, of course, that on an international list like this very > few of the people have any idea what's going on there, and you're > going to have to explain what's happening in the pictures to the > people who don't have a clue about cricket. > > Like the English. > > Bob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Brian Walters >> Sent: 22 March 2008 01:57 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: PESO: Cover Driving (and GESO) >> >> Hi all >> >> I haven't PESOed for a while so here's one I took at the >> recent interstate cricket final in Sydney. >> >> I took most shots with the Tamron SP 300 mm f5.4 with its 2x >> adapter to try to get close to the action. It certainly >> managed that but I've still got a bit to learn in using this >> lens. I was shooting at ISO 400 to try to get a reasonably >> fast shutter speed but I realised when I looked at the shots >> later that most would have benefited from a faster speed - I >> should have opened up the lens more, and maybe even tried ISO 800. >> >> Anyway, here's probably the best of the bunch, cropped by >> about one third. >> >> http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/84719/Cover_Driving.html >> >> And heres a small GESO of the day's shooting, some taken with >> the FA 80-320 mm. >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/supera1000/ADayAtTheCricket?authke >> y=g3H8f80H-W0 >> >> > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- 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.

