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wilth



Registered: January 2009
Posts: 787
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While "down under" I was able to watch the game of Cricket for a while. Not a full match, I didn't have that much time, but was with family that lives in Melbourne and had some of the game explained to me.
I won't claim to undertand it well but there were parts of it that were pretty fascinating, if not a little confusing for me, and I found myself even watching on TV while in Australia. Long lens shot, hence some of the short DOF and compression but I think it adds to the moment as well. Cropped a bit also.
Shot in RAW, converted to jpeg.
· Date: Sat April 17, 2010 · Views: 269 ·
Keywords: cricket, Australia, Batsman
Camera Make / Model: Canon EOS 40D
Lens Make / Focal Length: Canon 100-400
Filter / Type Used: UV
Event e.g. Grand Prix, Birthday, Sunrise: Cricket Match
State / Coluntry / Area Image Taken: Vic/Melbourne
Country Image Taken
Australia
Processing Software Applications Used
CS4

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Jan Holland

Registered: July 2009
Posts: 1,866
Sat April 17, 2010 4:48pm

Hello Wilt.
Good action shot of this Cricket game.
The mans face shows its excitement, the mans backsite is also on stretch, haha
Cheers, from Jan
veejaycee

Registered: February 2009
Posts: 5,689
Sat April 17, 2010 5:52pm

As an Englishman I should love the game but like many of my countrymen and women, I find it extremely boring and more important for the statistics and the eccentricities of the game than for the game itself. In Asian, Australasian and Caribbean countries it ranks above soccer as the number one sport.
Long lens and narrow DoF is definitely the way to go for this game to pick out 1, 2 or 3 players in "action" (yawn).
janper44

Registered: December 2009
Posts: 7,084
Sat April 17, 2010 6:38pm

Difficult sport for me to understand and to watch... very much like baseball which is equally difficult for me to understand and to watch but I do like individual shots taken from a match which shows the action on a more individual level.


Won't you feel that a crop to the batsman would heighten the action and eliminate the emptiness on the left side of the present picture?
wilth

Registered: January 2009
Posts: 787
Sun April 18, 2010 2:25pm

Hi Jan,
I actually left the space to the picture left so that he'd have some place t run. :o) As Vic pointed out, I didn't want to artificially contain the "action". Smile
Thanks,
Wilt
lrw1966

Registered: November 2008
Posts: 3,889
Sun April 18, 2010 3:23pm

Wilt, Hi:


Splendid Series and you are right a intriging game to see and try to understand.


Well Done.
Larry
Zebedee

Registered: June 2009
Posts: 1,204
Mon April 19, 2010 9:50am

Not that much to understand is there? Hit the ball and run! But as Vic says I find it very boring too!
Love the clarity of the batsman.
cheers Paula

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