On The Road
March, 2004
Hello, and welcome to this edition
of On The Road. A nice variety of events and techniques ranging
from Rhythmic Gymnastics to the PMA show in Las Vegas. So let's
take a walk On The Road............
Strobed Track and Field...Fill Flash Wrestling...High
ISO Rhythmic Gymnastics
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Indoor Track and Field, or Athletics
as it is known in Europe, is a lot of fun for the photographer.
With two Elinchrom 1000R sport strobes and my Nikon D2H set
on Rear Curtain and a shutter speed of 1/15 sec. this combination
is wonderful for the motion whirl look. I used a Nikon 12-24mm
lens with the aperture set on f5.6 and an ISO of200. The strobes
had Long Throw Reflectors so that I only lit the small area
of track that provided a clean background. Multi Max Pocket
Wizzards were used to fire the strobes and a Lexar 1G flash
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Men's hurdles and the same procedure
as the sprinters in image#1 with one exception.................No
REAR CURTAIN. Why?......because I picked up my other D2H
and forgot to set the camera on Rear Curtain. Although the
image is one of my favorites you can see that if I had used
Rear Curtain with the strobes the shadowed effect would
have been behind the athletes and given a cleaner "
motion " look to the image. All other settings were
the same as image#1.
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Women's Freestyle Wresting. Dreadful light
and all my strobes were installed for a Basketball game and
Ice Hockey game in other arenas. This was an opportunity to
use my NEW Nikon SB800 Speedlight. Perfect, accurate, and
a joy to use. I like FILL FLASH but as most would agree, on
camera flash and Digital have not been 100% perfect. The Nikon
SB800 IS ACCURATE ! Set on TTL mode and dialed down -1 2/3
I filled in just a touch of light to CLEAN the image. Nikon
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The Nikon SB800 reaches a long way..............From
the top of the stands with a Nikon D2H, ISO640, 400mm lens,
f2.8 Nikon SB800 Speedlight TTL mode dialed down -1 2/3.
Clean and sharp and a very natural lighting look. Remember,
I only want to add enough light to " clean " the
image not to " FLASH " the subject.
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Rhythmic Gymnastics Nationals is not a lime
light sport, therefore, no TV lights or should I say......ANY
LIGHTS. Very dark and Fill Flash or Strobes are not allowed.
NikonD2H, ISO1000, 400mm lens, f2.8 with a shutter speed of
1/250. The athletes face was very clean and noise free. The
darker background had noise but was easily softened and almost
completely removed with NIK Dfine. Lexar 1G flash card Bogen
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Rhythmic Gymnastics is a great sport
to photograph. Athletes bend and twist into a variety of
positions while performing beautiful dance and tumbling
skills while throwing Hoops and Ribbons skyward. Nikon D2H,
ISO HI - 1 ( 3200 I believe ), Nikon 300mm lens, f2.8 The
previous image#5 had the benefit of some ambient light coming
in through 4 skylights. This image, #6, was during an evening
session, thus the need for the ISO HI - 1 setting. Shutter
speed 1/200th was used. Nik Dfine did a nice job of making
the noise issue minimal. This ISO setting is very extreme
but demonstrated its usefulness in this very extreme situation.
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The Glass Flower Ceiling at the Belagio Hotel
in Las Vegas. My second appearance for Nikon as a featured
speaker at PMA. This image was captured with the NEW Nikon
Coolpix 8700. This 8 megapixel DYNAMO of a camera has terrific
sharpness and the capability of RAW/NEF capture. Hand held,
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Well............there's a variety.
Hope you enjoyed the images and information. The months to come
will showcase some great events including the Masters, the Kentucky
Derby, Olympic Trials, and of course the Summer Olympics from
Athens. Come back next month and join me when we walk On The Road...................................Adios,
Dave
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A look back at 2004
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Women's Freestyle Wresting
Rhythmic Gymnastics Nationals
The Glass Flower Ceiling at the Belagio Hotel in Las Vegas
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College Basketball
Women's Waterpolo
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NFL Football
The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Finals
A look back at The Greenbay Professionals
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Monday Night Football the Sports Shooter Workshop and Luau in
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Photography at the Summit workshop
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The World Gymnastics Championships
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International Gymnastics Camp
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Thunderbirds
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The Sports Photography Workshop with Rich Clarkson
Velodrome Cycling, More
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The Champions on Ice tour
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American Cup Gymnastics
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Air Force Basketball
Pro Football Pre-Superball Stock Sales
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Much more!
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Olympic Hopefuls Lenny Krayzelberg and Tom Molchow practice
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