Taekwondo London 2012

[wildman]

Was lucky enough to get tickets to the prelims and to boot was lucky enough to get the session that had Jade Jones fighting in

The photos are pretty nosiy as I don't really have optimal gear for indoor sports. All taken with an Alpha A700 and my trust Sigam 70-300 F4/5.6 APO. For a cheap (150 quid) telephoto they could have been worse !! I know the quality is bad but it was such a great experience. Also I was shooting from Row 28 so it was really hard trying to keep a steady shot at 200-300mm so I cranked the ISO up for faster shutter speed while shooting as wide as possible for the focal length. Bottom line I need a decent f2.8 telephoto

Jade Jones in Action - she won this match 15-3

Ukranian Balls are not made of steel. Ukraine guy took a swift knee to the Jacobs !!

Thai pre fight coach pep talk - she got her ass handed to her by the Chinese Taipai fighter.

The full set to date can be found here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21458727@N02/sets/72157631102364336/

I am still processing a few that are left or at least trying to clean them up as some of them are pretty noisy. I think I shot these at 2500 ISO

 

[wildman]

Might be my laptop but they look a far bit overexposed.

they are. ISO was probably to high, and I was to excited at being there to sort the settings out. Was really hard trying to get WB right too. I am just thankfull I got something useable at the end

 

[wildman]

Easy to do with bright lights and white clothing.

Really want to be using spot metering and manual exposure settings.

I think this is where I went wrong, I beleive I was using matrix metering and the camera was set likely on Aperture priority. I think I over compensated for exposure as I knew I was not packing a particularly fast telephoto.