Gratuitous male appendage waving topic!

[Derek W]

So yesterday I took a trip down to Fife to watch and take photos of the East Fife v Brechin game as per normal but before the match i had the pleasure of meeting a woman with some bits of camera gear for me.

I had contacted Kerso to see if he could set aside a couple of items, which he could and I took delivery of them yesterday afternoon.

I am now the proud owner of the 70 - 200 f2.8 L IS USM Mk2 along with the EF 1.4x extender (not used this yet).

I will post up a few pics from yesterdays match but I have to say I'm really impressed with the sharpness across the range. Yesterdays conditions were overcast, quite dull although the sun tried to break through once or twice and typically i was using ISO 500 - 1000 and getting a shutter speed of anywhere between 800 and 2000th of a second.

 

[Derek W]

Any pics from the day Derek?

happy birthday to the above

yeah, will post some up later / tomorrow. Just back from the pub after watching the old firm match but got photos from yesterday to process for Tuesdays programme along with shots for the paper then the website as well so I'll have a busy day or two ahead of me.

 

[Derek W]

Former Rangers and Scotland Legend Gordon Durie with Hearts Legend John Robertson in the background.

ISO 800 1/500th at f2.8

Spot metering on black really is a pain since it over exposes everything else.

 

[Derek W]

Which one of the 2 items resembles the said waved appendage?

The one on the left up until i read that comment then it retracted to the size of the one on the right

 

[Derek W]

processing the footy photos from the weekend tonight. will stick a link up to them but the photos will be restricted to 640 on the longest side.

And Gaffer we all know about your willy its been waved in public by several 'members' here from the previous photography meets

 

[Derek W]

I adore mine, mine gets better upwards from 70mm wide open. Not had massive amounts of chance to use it for various reason but this was at 200mm when I was mucking around.
Hope you love it as much as I do Derek, the price has gone up about £300 since I bought mine

I'm totally blown away by the clarity of the shots compared to my previous 70 - 300 f4.5 - 5.6

Latest gallery is here http://brechincity.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3790 and when you nail the shot, on the full size image the quality is simply superb.

 

[Derek W]

^

Some nice photos! But next time, Sort out the horizons and keep the crops nice and tight.

yeah theres one or two which aren't quite horizontal but I was rushing through the photos last night cos there's another game tonight (hopefully) so probably didn't spend quite as much time as i should have on them. Some of the shots are quite cropped already cos you really need the 400 f2.8 to cover the pitch so didn't want some of the images to start pixelating. I think i normally add a little space around the main focal area, maybe I'm feared to crop that little bit tighter.