What Did You Shoot This Weekend, May 8-10, 2009?

<p>It's been a while, so here we go...</p><div></div>

<p>HS soccer...</p><div></div>

<p>...baseball...</p><div></div>

<p>Friday counts as the weekend. <br />International cricket <br /><a title="Fidel Edwards by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303/3514398123_7e8caf1db0_o.jpg" alt="Fidel Edwards" width="800" height="533" /></a> <br /><a title="Graeme Swann by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3515206786_76c621a21d_o.jpg" alt="Graeme Swann" width="800" height="533" /></a> <br /><a title="Suliman Benn by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/3515206898_8f071fb683_o.jpg" alt="Suliman Benn" width="533" height="800" /></a> <a title="Fidel Edwards by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/3514398507_c18abf43b6_o.jpg" alt="Fidel Edwards" width="533" height="800" /></a></p>

The Green Mountain Derby Dames had their final bout of the season on Saturday. I photographed it, thanks to some research on what folks here said about shooting basketball.

 

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<p>Girls Soccer 1</p><div></div>

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<p>Girls Soccer 2</p>

 

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<p>Girls Soccer 3</p>

 

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<p >Great pictures everyone!</p>

<p >I'm always fascinated by shots of kinds of sports I've never seen in reality let alone tried to capture. Peter - the gentleman's attitude is a welcome change (from time to time) compared to other sports. Benjamin - tough girls... Kenneth - the youngsters seem to take it seriously...</p>

<p >Wilson, may I ask a question? Are you submitting the pictures unprocessed (apart from cropping or captioning) to the clients? I ask because I would be worried about good reproduction of the colors. Maybe I'm a control-freak but I always try to submit pictures with tamed contrasts and colors that match my memory. I shoot a lot for smaller papers and my workflow works for me but I wonder what other shooters have experienced. Many papers or magazines may have good working pre-press-people but others seem to use highly automated software-solutions only for pre-press. </p>

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<p >Please excuse my english, georg.</p>

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<p >My weekend was pretty easy - just one soccer- and one handball-game apart from some non-sports-stuff. </p>

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<p>I like shooting handball twice as much since I'm using earplugs (kettle-drum banging fans gave me headaches many times before)...</p><div></div>

<p>...another one from this game...</p><div></div>

<p>...and a last one...<br>

Sometimes I wish Nikon would make a 85/1.4 or 135/2 with a really fast AF - the 200 is a bit to long for some scenes...</p><div></div>

<p>Angela Landsbury, appearing in "Blithe Spirit" at the Shubert Theater, NYC</p>

<p>Just saw that show...</p>

<p>Hi Wilson! Great to see your work again. For me it was a light week with only high school girls lacrosse.</p><div></div>

<p>Grade School Track</p>

<p>Now the image</p><div></div>

<p>55M Hurdles</p><div></div>

<p>Boy's 4x100</p><div></div>

<p>I got my lens back from the repair shop and shot a little high school track.<br>

<img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/gaelson/photonet%202009/IMG_6717.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/gaelson/photonet%202009/IMG_6778-Copy.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/gaelson/photonet%202009/IMG_6740-Copy.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

<p>And a little bit of softball and baseball.<br>

<img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/gaelson/photonet%202009/IMG_6657-Copy.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/gaelson/photonet%202009/IMG_6838-Copy.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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<p>A little rock climbing</p><div></div>

<p>Guten Tag George, for news and sports, I just sent photos straight out of the cameras. By the way I really like your work, especially handball photos.</p>

<p>Hi Gary, thanks and great to see many different posters and sports.<br>

^_^</p>

<p>Wilson, thanks!<br>

Gary, love the last picture! Eric - that hurdles picture shows a lot of willpower - great! Daniel H. - the two last pictures are my favorites and Daniel C. - what stands 5.8 for? Is it some kind of degree of difficulty? <br>

georg</p>

<p>Georg<br>

Yes 5.8 is the difficulty rating for the route. It is rated using the yosemite decimel system.</p>