I Have A Life.

Recently I had chances to take photos of basketball games in a high school. Hope that you can also share their fun in games.

D70 :: AF 70-210mm f4 @70mm :: ISO640 :: F8 :: 1/500s :: Portrait :: sunlight :: 0ev :: AF-C :: A-mode

Center-weight Metering



More photos in my album: WindyWood Album



Today I went to the same in my neigborhood again in the late afternoon. However, insteal of football, I took photos of people playing basketball. Count for basketball is a lot smaller than football field, thus the working distance of my 70-210mm lens reaching both sides of the count.



The weather is so good. The sky was very blue. I think a lot of people went to take landscape photos today, and properly they a going to post a lot of new and nice photos landscape photos in the coming few days. Sunny day, happy day.



Sunlight also gave good contrast and vivid color to my photos this afternoon. I recorded several series of movements and combined them to one file; that's a lot of fun doing that, also a lot of work.



I picked some photos and posted on my album "WindyWood Album" (Well, it's finally got a name.) again.

Everyone looks fantastic when he/she is trying the best, so get up! and fight!

D70 :: AF 70-210mm f4 @210mm :: A-mode :: 1/200 :: f8

+0.3ev :: ISO1000 :: Portrait : Cloudy +2 :: AF-C



More photos in my album: WindyWood Album



Although I have a very powerful camera like Nikon F100 and knew the theories how to take motion photos many years ago, I've never tried to practise the skills of shooting motions. It is because I will be doomed by the hugh amount of film consumption.



Practising sport photography is one of the most reasons why I want D70. Today I went to a sport field in my neigborhood to attempt my first experience of sport photography.



I brought 3 lenses with me - AFD 24-120, AFD 70-210/4-5.6, and AF 70-210/4. I started from using 24-120 with AF-S, then AF-C. I tested the focusing preformances of those lenses one by one.



AFD 70-210/4-4.5 was supposed to work best in this condition, and AF 70-210 should be the worst. The former lens has good reputation of quick focuing. In my experience, the later lens can AF smoothly when and only when I use F100 with MB-15. That's really a slow lens.



However, my experience today crossed all this prediction. AF 70-210mm F/4 was surprisingly the lens did the best job in the afternoon. Quick and accurate. You also have to know that it is the sharpest AF tele-zoom lens in my weapon list. Ironicly, the glass condition of this lens are notorious. Scratches, dust, fungi....just you name it, the lens has got it. However, the lens is JUST STILL SO SHARP!



I also find out the super slow AF 70-210mm f4 lens can handle sport photography well. Why do people dump in so much money on AFS lens, and why do Canon fans yell out for USM all the time, as most of them are not shooting wild animals, Grand Prix and etc. all the time?



The preformance of D70 also make me so happy. Auto-gun-shooting 3 frames per second, catching people's action continuously. Quick respond of shutter and AF-C function raised the chance of taking successful pictures. In about an hour, I took over 260 pictures without any pain on paying for film. What a happy afternoon.