Nikon D3, 14-24mm, 800iso, f9, 1/160th, polorizer filter
The last few days since I returned from Beijing have been spent relaxing, spending time with my girlfriend and eating food I missed. On the third day of my four days off before its back to work I started getting bored and really wanted to go shoot something. So I did.
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Nikon D3, 400mm, 1600iso, f2.8, 1/1250th
After 3 weeks of working myself to the bone we come to the final two days of the Olympics. Myself along with numerous other photographers I have been speaking to are just plain burned out. It has been a totally amazing experience that I am incredibly thankful to have been a part of but I am more than ready to come home.
Continue reading ‘Olympics come to an end….and not a moment too soon’
Nikon D3, 165mm, 400iso, f5.6, 1/1250th
After a very late evening the prior night it was a tough 7am wakeup call to head over to the BMX finals. Bike racing was certainly a sport right up my alley so I was more than happy to head out there.
Continue reading ‘Flying Bikes, Flying Horses and more water polo’
Nikon D3, 135mm, 1600iso, f2.8, 1/1250th
Had the morning off from shooting so I caught up on some sleep and spent time chatting with friends back in the states on instant messenger before heading off to shoot the womens water polo gold medal game between the USA and Netherlands.
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Nikon D3, 400mm, 500iso, f4, 1/2000th
I began my morning (which I was supposed to have off) by heading out to shoot the supposedly undefeatable USA Softball team. Like most others it was generally assumed the USA would demoralize every team they played on their way to yet another gold medal. Somebody forgot to tell this outcome to Japan as they went 8 scoreless innings (softball is supposed to be 7 innings). I was nearly falling asleep with the boring pitchers match that featured exactly one play (which was garbage).
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Nikon D3, 400mm, 2000iso, f2.8, 1/1600th
After yesterday where I only had one shoot, and spent the rest of the time at the Great Wall of China, today was payback for my easy day. I shot five different events at five different venues.
Nikon D3, 14-24mm, 400iso, f5.6, 1/1250th
I started my day off by spending over an hour backing up images to my LaCie 500gig external hard drive since my macbook pro was down to less than a gig of memory. Due to the time it took to transfer everything I ended up missing my morning shoot of women’s triathlon. Oh darn!
Nikon D3, 80-200mm, 200iso, f8, 1/10th
It was a relatively light day of two events to be covered. Began the day shooting some volleyball. When I arrived at the venue I noticed one of our other photographers there so I left the standard action images to him and attempted to do some blur shots. A lot of people hate blur shots where you don’t have something tack sharp but I was really enjoying the flurry of blurry players jumping and the ball streaking off their hands.
Nikon D3, 80-200mm, 400iso, f8, 1/1600th
My first shoot of the day was women’s field hockey. I wasn’t excited to shoot it and it ended up being one of the worst events I’ve shot since coming to Beijing. It would have been better had I brought my 600mm but with only a 400mm (on a full frame camera) it just wasn’t a good situation. Harsh light and cluttered backgrounds did nothing to help my cause. Below are the only two shots that weren’t horrific….even they aren’t anything to brag about.
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Nikon D3, 80-200mm, 4000iso, f5.6, 1/1000
Once again my day began covering gymnastics. This time it was the women’s individual all around final. (supposedly the biggest event in a gymnasts career) With as many days in a row as I have done with gymnastics I bypassed the normal routine of following all the gymnastics around from apparatus to apparatus to position myself in a good spot for the medal ceremony.
Continue reading ‘Golden Gymnastics, girls stronger than me, fantastic volleyball venue’
