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Thanks everyone for your advice/ input. The 300 it will be. I think that this lens will round out my arsenal rather nicely. I'll finish stacking my chips for the purchase and call it a day. I'll post as soon as I get some good stuff.

John & Steve,

 

Thanks for your input. My access for youth and high school will be unlimited for the most part. On the college

and professional levels, there might be some limits. Do you think that a 300+TC would suffice?

For those of you out there who shoot football, I wanted to get your take on shooting football with a 300mm lens

and how effective it is. I am debating over a 300 or saving for a 400 2.8.

I'm not sure if this question has been posed in the past, so I'll put it out

there. I am an avid fan of Apple's Aperture. But I have been considering using

Photo Mechanic as it is the industry norm for image archiving and such. Can

someone give me their thoughts on one or the other.

 

Thanks!

Has anyone ever shot Arena League Football? If so, explain some of your challenges in shooting in the

venues

I am interested in revamping my workflow. Can someone give me their thoughts on an Aperture, Photo

Mechanic, Photoshop CS3 workflow. I am interested in speed and images that pop. Any thoughts?

I hear you all. For some reason I recall a simple way to extract an image at the CS3 Power

Tour. Evidently I am wrong. I'll dig a little deeper. Thanks everyone and I'll keep you posted

on any new developments.

Can someone give me a quick yet effective way to extract an item from a gray background and place it one

a white background using CS3? I know there's an easy way to do it, but for some reason it escapes me.

Thanks a bunch in advance!

Diane,

 

Thanks a bunch! I am looking at Printroom as we speak to see if it is Mac friendly. So far I

am seeing that it is. Ideally, I would have a Clickbooq, Photoshelter, or Livebooks site and

link it to some type of print service. There are so many options out there I am trying to

find the smoothest workflow. Prior to the HD issues with my PC, I would import, keyword,

tag, sharpen, and adjust sturation in Aperture, burn a CD of jpegs and import them to the

PC hard drive anddirect clients to the Photoreflect site. My job would be ssssoooooo

much easier if the darkroom software was Mac friendly. I have also tried LabPrints, but

their customer service hasn't been the greatest. I'll look at digiproofs as well. Thanks

again!

IMHO, you can shoot ANYTHING with the D70, D300 combination. Along with the 70-200

2.8VR, 28-7- 2.8 and the 50 1.8. Its quite possible to shoot an entire boxing match wth the

D300 and 50 1.8. Sounds l=to me like you're on the right track!

Can someone give me their thoughts on a good hosting website for selling sports images. I've been using

Photoreflect for quite some time until my Dell checked out on me. Now I'm using a Mac Book Pro and I've

grown accustomed to the ease of the Photoreflect site coupled with all of the features involved.

Particularly no monthly fees. Does anyone have any thoughts on Printroom or any other sites that they

have had a great deal of success with? Ideally, I want to store the images on an external HD to keep

memory open on my Mac and perhaps pull the full res. images from the external HD when an order comes

in. Does that sound correct?

Hi all. I've shot the CIAA Tournament here in Charlotte, NC the past two years and have been

able to do quite well with a 28-70 2.8 on a D200 and a 70-200 2.8 on a D70. The long lens

takes me to the opposite free throw line and the 28-70 2.8 gives me good results almost to

the top of the key. I've been able to produce sellable work even at 800 iso. I'm led to believe

that the lighting in the Charlotte Coliseum is perhaps a little better then in your local high

school gym. Just some food for thought.

One more thing. In your bigger fights, flash is a no-no. You may be promptly escorted from

ringside by security. I've talked to some other sports photogs and they insist that the D3 is

state of the art with noise even at 2000. The D300 isn't bad at all. I'd be happy to share a

few with you.

Hi Emil,

 

Believe it or not, you can get decent results with a Nikon D70 and a 501.8 lens. I shot an

entire match with that combination. I would shoot for a 50 1.8, 28=70 2.8 and a 70-200

2.8. You should be fine with the 28-70 2.8 Nikon lens. I shot Hasim Rahman in

November with a Nikon D200 and a 28-70 2.8. Versus networks televised the fight so the

lighting was decent. With an HBO or Showtime you MIGHT be able to get away with ISO at

1000, but generally speaking your readings will be ISO: 1600, Aperture: 2.8, Shutter

Speed: 500 or better.

Does anyone have any thoughts on lenses for arena league football on the long end? I was thinking a 300

2.8 along with a 70-200 2.8 on a second body and possibly a 28-70 2.8 on a third. Any thoughts?

Can someone give me some direction on lighting an indoor stadium. I have an opportunity to shoot an

arena football league but I'm worried about shooting at high ISOs with the marginal lighting in the

stadium. My thoughts are to use my SP Studio Systems Excalibur 6400s in the rafters and fire them with

Pocket Wizards. Does that sound right? If not does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!

I would like to use the button to lock the object that I am focusing on and get the same

exposure for a series of exposures. Is that possible?

Based on this discussion, why would anyone want a D3?

Can someone give me some direction on engaging my AE-L/ AF-L button on the back of my D200? I

contacted Nikon with the same question and it was communicated to me that the button on the D200

works as it does on the D100 & D70, but so far, I haven't been able to get it to work. Any assistance in

this manner would be greatly appreciated!

 

Regards,

 

DW

Thanks Scott!

I have a question for anyone who has had experience with SP

Monolights. Simply stated, have you had favorable results and are you

pleased with your purchase? I am moving into portrait work and I'm

currently using three SP Studio Systems Excalibur 6400 Monolights. I

have umbrellas,a snoot, backdrop w/ stands and barndoors. I was

looking for thoughts on the SP Studio Systems outfit.