On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:42 , Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a great shot! You must have a good camera. (;-)} Seriously, ain't it > great to shoot at 6400? > I pulled my camera out and my friend (who owns a Canon EOS) said "don't bother, it's pretty dark in here". My reply: "Don't worry, I've got this". Shot with a measly 80-200 f/4.5-5.6 zoom, too! What I couldn't do with a 50-135. Sigh. > Long ago and far away I logged many wasted hours watching roller derby on TV. > This shot reminds me why it was so addictive - the combination of athletic > skill and grace and rough-and-tumble pushing and shoving and elbows to the > ribs . . . What I recall though was a banked track with a padded rail on the > outside to stop the contestants from flying off into the crowds. The > spectators here look to be at quite some risk. > Yup, Austin TX (against whom we were skating) has a banked track, we have a flat track. The spectators sitting on the floor actually paid extra for the privilege of being right there. There's a significant "border zone" between the defined tracks and where the spectators sit, though. Only one beer was spilled by a crash in the whole evening! >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/mn_rollergirls/content/K5__5365_large.html >> A bonus was having my roller-derby friend share my public Facebook-based gallery "with the entire league". Lots of comments/tags/compliments flying my way. I enjoy the attention that way. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
