Yea, more photos from the basketball tournament. I stayed back to watch because a number of my friends are playing, which includes Renegades, Whatever-La Anything-La and Mystique Mythstique. Nothing much that can be say here in public, hahaha to say except that Whatever-La Anything-La, Mystique Mythstique and Renegades rock! =)
MF (manual focus) + prime lens (can’t zoom lo) + 10 girls running fast in the basketball court + very little light (even when I use f/1.8 and ISO 1600, my shutter speed can hardly go beyond 1/125th second) …
=
… blur, OOF (out of focus) shots and a crazy/pervert-looking photographer, lol.
Seriously, just trying to get some shots done, but it’s catastrophic. These 4 are the only ones which are acceptable. =\ Basically, I am not doing any composition at all, all I do is shoot a lot and hope that 1 out of 10 of them is acceptable. Most of my time was spent on following the ball while MF-ing in split seconds, lol. Tough. =\ Might give it another try in coming matches, depends on whether I can keep up with my schedule or not.
By the way, life took a good turn these days, I am expecting brighter and happier days after my June exams, hehe. =) I am very happy these days, =p
Sorry for not updating for more than a week, hehe, was quite busy with homeworks (and staying back everyday).
Here’s some of the photos taken 2 weeks ago, on our trip to Wasai-3 with the scouts. It’s a scout activity organized by the scouts, and many of us joined. It was fun and tiring, hehe!
Well, the original plan was to go Tasek Lama for the ‘Flying Fox’ and rock climbing activity, but too bad, Tasek Lama was under renovation or something, so the venue changed last minute (we received notification through sms on the night before the event) to Wasai-3.
We reached the port (the one next to Yayasan, where people get water taxi to Kampong Ayer) at around 7.30am and waited till nearly 9am. Took water taxi to the opposite side of the river, and gathered at a school.
I had my first sports photography (using d-SLR) experience 2 days ago, at BTC (Brunei Tennis Club). Took more than 700 photos (some 100-300 are taken by KelvinTang & CheaHong), that’s almost 1.5GBs, hehe! Spent 2 hours just to scan through and do some minor correction (1-2 clicks correction), hehe, xD!!
Since this is my FIRST Sports Photography experience, there’s a lot of things that I still gotta improve. I did a lot of mistakes in setting the shutter speed and this resulted in over-exposure (details blown out by too much light) of some 30% of the photos. I set the shutter speed @ 1/200 seconds, but actually we need at least 1/400 seconds to freeze actions. It’s difficult to focus too, too fast…
And I sucks in composing the photos too, I like to do telephoto/candid and tight portraiture too much, that’s why I captured very lil’ actions (Kelvin’s photos compensated this tho). And I took all the photos from the side, Kelvin’s frontal shots are great man! =(
But still, pretty happy with the outcome, since it’s my first time, hehe. Ok! Time to let the photos do the talking~ xD
P.S: Bear in mind that some of the photos are taken by Kelvin, CheaHong or others. =)
Updates: More photos due to strong demand (HAHAHA, not really la). xD
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