Nice outing in the grass and fresh air, and you got to see a cricket game too! :-) (That's how they used to advertise our baseball team games when I was a kid.) I liked the many shots where you captured the ball in the photo. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
