Personal Cricket Photography!
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bitsandpieces
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Good shots stumped, keep it up! What camera do you use? I do a film course at uni and I really got into photography doing that. I'll try and get some good snaps with my DSLR (a Nikkon D40x) using my mates 300mm lens, it's beautiful the quality you can get with a good lens
Mas you're right about the rule of thirds. Though you'll need a good/big lens to be able to frame a batsman nicely from the boundary edge.. maybe pretend you're umpiring and get some good CUs that way!
As you have a DSLR I'd recommend taking as many pics as possible (if you're not playing or have already batted and have the time, get 100s) That's teh great thing about digital, you can delete hundreds of rubbish photos you dont need, but you never know what you'll get!
Look forward to seeing some more pics from people, I'll post some up once my season starts!
Good shots stumped, keep it up! What camera do you use? I do a film course at uni and I really got into photography doing that. I'll try and get some good snaps with my DSLR (a Nikkon D40x) using my mates 300mm lens, it's beautiful the quality you can get with a good lens
Mas you're right about the rule of thirds. Though you'll need a good/big lens to be able to frame a batsman nicely from the boundary edge.. maybe pretend you're umpiring and get some good CUs that way!
As you have a DSLR I'd recommend taking as many pics as possible (if you're not playing or have already batted and have the time, get 100s) That's teh great thing about digital, you can delete hundreds of rubbish photos you dont need, but you never know what you'll get!
Look forward to seeing some more pics from people, I'll post some up once my season starts!
Stumped
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I use a canon EOS350d had it since it first came out, want a eos40d as it can do 6fps but I really should get a bigger and better lens than my 200mm !
I will fill 2gb card with about 500 shots per match! And that's not. Shooting every shot!
I use a canon EOS350d had it since it first came out, want a eos40d as it can do 6fps but I really should get a bigger and better lens than my 200mm !
I will fill 2gb card with about 500 shots per match! And that's not. Shooting every shot!
Norm the whale
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I really want to get into photography but I find it mind boggling. Point and shoot is about my level.
I really want to get into photography but I find it mind boggling. Point and shoot is about my level.
bitsandpieces
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JonAd dont worry, everyone starts off as 'point and click', it's when you start realising how much control you have over how you want what you're photographing to look, that's when it starts getting fun What sort of photography interests you?
yeah good recommendations stumped. A good DSLR will set you back a bit, but do some research before buying anything. Cameras like my Nikkon D40x are cheaper (roughly £400) than a really good cannon, but due to the lens connection on my body I ahve to pay roughly £100 more than normal per lens I buy, so that will set you back further than paying more up front for a really good camera. Cannons are exceptionally good.
Stumped do you use prime or zoom lenses? If its sports and wildlife I'm guessing zoom? I nearly bought the camera you have, my mate has it and gets gorgeous photos with it Aren't 2 and 4 gb cards just gorgeous??
JonAd dont worry, everyone starts off as 'point and click', it's when you start realising how much control you have over how you want what you're photographing to look, that's when it starts getting fun
What sort of photography interests you?yeah good recommendations stumped. A good DSLR will set you back a bit, but do some research before buying anything. Cameras like my Nikkon D40x are cheaper (roughly £400) than a really good cannon, but due to the lens connection on my body I ahve to pay roughly £100 more than normal per lens I buy, so that will set you back further than paying more up front for a really good camera. Cannons are exceptionally good.
Stumped do you use prime or zoom lenses? If its sports and wildlife I'm guessing zoom? I nearly bought the camera you have, my mate has it and gets gorgeous photos with it
Aren't 2 and 4 gb cards just gorgeous?? 
Jelly Beanz
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Nice pics!!
I don't really know a lot about cameras but I take pictures and videos on skiing holidays every year. I have to say, I love the multi-shot every third of a second!! Do 'proper' photographers use this too or is it a bit below them?
Nice pics!!
I don't really know a lot about cameras but I take pictures and videos on skiing holidays every year. I have to say, I love the multi-shot every third of a second!! Do 'proper' photographers use this too or is it a bit below them?
bitsandpieces
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I've been known to use it in the past, but only if something's happening really quickly and I can't afford to miss it, such as if I'm doing some photo journalism. Lately I've been trying not to do it though.... it's all about sensing and capturing that single-frame moment in life
Stumped those are gorgeous! The b/w windmill one is perfect and great use of mas' 3rds in that horizon land/waterscape. What did you use for those 2 out of interest? I'll have a dig around for some of my fav photos... where's someblokecalleddave?? Surely this is his sort of thing :cool
I've been known to use it in the past, but only if something's happening really quickly and I can't afford to miss it, such as if I'm doing some photo journalism. Lately I've been trying not to do it though.... it's all about sensing and capturing that single-frame moment in life
Stumped those are gorgeous! The b/w windmill one is perfect and great use of mas' 3rds in that horizon land/waterscape. What did you use for those 2 out of interest? I'll have a dig around for some of my fav photos... where's someblokecalleddave?? Surely this is his sort of thing :cool
someblokecalleddave
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Finding these interesting threads is half the problem! Anyway - Tom's right in amongst the 60-70,000 images I've got crickets just something I've never done before and I'm looking forward to the challenge of doing it this summer having promised my team I'll shoot some pictures.
Yeah the first shot with the stumps as everyone has said is by far the best image, possibly over-exposed a smidgeon. The rest of the images lack some key elements to make them look pro. One good way of creating images is to use this following formula -
Image = Person + background + symbol + involvement
This applies to creating saleable stock images and the first images tick all the boxes fairly well. So yeah nice image. In an ideal world there'd have been a village church in the background and or sight screens/pavillion because all these elements combine to form the cliche's that we all have as a perfect idea of Cricket in England.
Someone said that they couldn't take pictures. If you buy yourself an Canon EOS (I loathe to say this as hate Canon cameras) and use it on Auto exposure with a wide aperture F4 for instance 80% of the time you'll get acceptable images without knowing the first thing about photography. Add the rule of thirds in there and pre-empt the "peak action" point and you'll get some nice images.
Sports photography is a specialist skill in itself that demands some knowledge of the sport you're shooting - primarily knowing those "Peak Action" situations but I'm sure you all know those anyway being cricketers.
Dave
Finding these interesting threads is half the problem!
Anyway - Tom's right in amongst the 60-70,000 images I've got crickets just something I've never done before and I'm looking forward to the challenge of doing it this summer having promised my team I'll shoot some pictures.Yeah the first shot with the stumps as everyone has said is by far the best image, possibly over-exposed a smidgeon. The rest of the images lack some key elements to make them look pro. One good way of creating images is to use this following formula -
Image = Person + background + symbol + involvement
This applies to creating saleable stock images and the first images tick all the boxes fairly well. So yeah nice image. In an ideal world there'd have been a village church in the background and or sight screens/pavillion because all these elements combine to form the cliche's that we all have as a perfect idea of Cricket in England.
Someone said that they couldn't take pictures. If you buy yourself an Canon EOS (I loathe to say this as hate Canon cameras) and use it on Auto exposure with a wide aperture F4 for instance 80% of the time you'll get acceptable images without knowing the first thing about photography. Add the rule of thirds in there and pre-empt the "peak action" point and you'll get some nice images.
Sports photography is a specialist skill in itself that demands some knowledge of the sport you're shooting - primarily knowing those "Peak Action" situations but I'm sure you all know those anyway being cricketers.
Dave
someblokecalleddave
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This is like being at work!
This is like being at work!
Norm the whale
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Cheers for that and the other bit of advice earlier in the thread.
someblokecalleddave said:
Cheers for that and the other bit of advice earlier in the thread.
someblokecalleddave
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If you've got a digital camera don't just shoot the action shoot the people as well, in years to come they'll be far more interesting to you as a person that action shots, it'll also help to create a mood and feeling for how it was on the day and trigger memories in decades to come. There's so much space on memory cards it would be criminal not to shoot images of your mates as well!
If you've got a digital camera don't just shoot the action shoot the people as well, in years to come they'll be far more interesting to you as a person that action shots, it'll also help to create a mood and feeling for how it was on the day and trigger memories in decades to come. There's so much space on memory cards it would be criminal not to shoot images of your mates as well!
bitsandpieces
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Great advice there Dave, that's why I love using a 300mm, you can really capture something about the person with that sort of beautifully tight framing, it's like using a scalpul and cutting into their soul Sounds a bit hammer horror, but I'm sure you know what I mean! That bit you mentioned (quoted above), any chance of an example? It sounds quite similar to the basic principles of photography, i.e. dominant, etc? With involvement, do you mean things like vanishing points or use of diagonals that engage the eye, or involvement between the person and the symbol? As I said, examples would be great, I'm always eager to learn :cool
someblokecalleddave said:
Great advice there Dave, that's why I love using a 300mm, you can really capture something about the person with that sort of beautifully tight framing, it's like using a scalpul and cutting into their soul
Sounds a bit hammer horror, but I'm sure you know what I mean! That bit you mentioned (quoted above), any chance of an example? It sounds quite similar to the basic principles of photography, i.e. dominant, etc? With involvement, do you mean things like vanishing points or use of diagonals that engage the eye, or involvement between the person and the symbol? As I said, examples would be great, I'm always eager to learn :coolRe: Personal Cricket Photography!
That cricket pitch you play on is amazing!!!! Man club cricket in Australia has some shocking pitches unless your playing rep or graded cricket. We play on Synthetic pitches, twigs on the pitch are your only chance of getting any seam movement lol
That cricket pitch you play on is amazing!!!! Man club cricket in Australia has some shocking pitches unless your playing rep or graded cricket. We play on Synthetic pitches, twigs on the pitch are your only chance of getting any seam movement lol
someblokecalleddave
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See now you've got me stumped! I'm trying to think of an image where I've got all the elements together recently. What it refers to is that the person in the image is actually doing something in the picture rather than simply staring at the camera. I've had a quick look through one of my CD's here and found this as an example (I teach this stuff rather than do it these days).
It's an image with saleability I reckon? Education/Art/hobbies being the most obvious, but it's got faults.
Person (the boy in foreground) + Background (House) + symbol (Pencil paper etc) + Involvement (He's actively engaged with the process of drawing).
It's weaknesses are that my other son has a broken arm and it's therefore distracting and you could look at it and think is this about the kid with the broken arm or is it about art? The other weakness is the background, it'd be better if it was in a room with drawings on the wall if it was about art/hobbies/education - so better the same kind of pose in a classroom. I think the reason I liked it because it was selling an old skool concept that kids can do stuff other than play with DS's or XBox's etc - so it might sell in that context along with educational text?
bitsandpieces said:Great advice there Dave, that's why I love using a 300mm, you can really capture something about the person with that sort of beautifully tight framing, it's like using a scalpul and cutting into their soul
See now you've got me stumped! I'm trying to think of an image where I've got all the elements together recently. What it refers to is that the person in the image is actually doing something in the picture rather than simply staring at the camera. I've had a quick look through one of my CD's here and found this as an example (I teach this stuff rather than do it these days).
It's an image with saleability I reckon? Education/Art/hobbies being the most obvious, but it's got faults.
Person (the boy in foreground) + Background (House) + symbol (Pencil paper etc) + Involvement (He's actively engaged with the process of drawing).
It's weaknesses are that my other son has a broken arm and it's therefore distracting and you could look at it and think is this about the kid with the broken arm or is it about art? The other weakness is the background, it'd be better if it was in a room with drawings on the wall if it was about art/hobbies/education - so better the same kind of pose in a classroom. I think the reason I liked it because it was selling an old skool concept that kids can do stuff other than play with DS's or XBox's etc - so it might sell in that context along with educational text?
mas cambios
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Seems that the BBC saw that we were talking action photography and stuck this up on their front page.
Not sure how useful it is, but there is a little bit about action photography and portrait.
Seems that the BBC saw that we were talking action photography and stuck this up on their front page.
Not sure how useful it is, but there is a little bit about action photography and portrait.