Handball Highlights

[rooboy]

Hope everyone enjoys 4 of the highlights from the ~12GBs of photos macka & I took during our week at the Handball Pacific Cup.

Again, many thanks to MCWB and Birdy for the equipment loans - we really couldn't have got these shots without them

#1 - Australian James Blondell - taken with 85/1.4 & using an SB28 flash borrowed from Sasha Dimitric, who is the 'father' of Handball in Australia, a fantastic photographer as well who switched to Canon for digital but still has an F100 and fantastic Nikon gear he doesn't use much (80-200 2.8, 85/1.4 among others). One of the few successful panning shots we got - we learnt a lot in a week, but panning takes more practise than that


#2 - New Zealander Leni Sulusi - not a bad capture from macka


#3 - Several Australian players - Richard (on the bottom) had his debut for Australia in the last 3 minutes of the match, and managed to score with 5 seconds to go. Again, macka making the 85/1.4 shine.



#4 - Australian Andrew Burt shoots in front of Cook Islands goalkeeper Andrew Winchester.



Sqillions more can be found at our gallery here, a selection picked out by the event organisers here.

C&C welcome and appreciated.

Edit: I should add that I will soon be posting a For Sale thread, which will be offering my soul and/or left kidney in exchange for a 70-200VR or 85/1.4 . Whoever warned us not to borrow Birdy's gear was right, the lust induced was not worth it . Anyway, please PM all offers for said soul/kidney, willing to accept cash or trade

[ABG]

Hi Patrick,

Some great action shots there. Looks like you guys had a great time. Shame about the Birdy induced Nikon lust

[barry]

I think Raskill might have a 70-200VR for sale??

Barry

[birddog114]

I think Raskill might have a 70-200VR for sale??

Barry

Are you thinking of buying another one so you can stack it up as 140-400VR/ 2.8?

[losfp]

HWhoever warned us not to borrow Birdy's gear was right, the lust induced was not worth it . Anyway, please PM all offers for said soul/kidney, willing to accept cash or trade

That was me!!

I love the 70-200VR, it is an absolute dream to use. However, I couldn't justify the rather large asking price, so I opted for a second-hand 80-200/2.8 from one of our members here. You're welcome to check it out at the walkmeet on the weekend (are you guys still coming? After we moved it back to June for you both and everything )

I do think we are fortunate though, that for a modest drop in performance, we can save a bunch of money. For example, the 70-200VR (2300) vs the 80-200/2.8 (1300), or the 85/1.4 (1500) vs the 85/1.8 (500). At least we have the option.

[rooboy]

That was me!!

I should have listened

The 70-200 is well outside our current budget, before we even consider something in the 70/80-200 2.8 range we need to buy a flash gun, wide angle and Spyder - maybe in a year or two

Thanks for the comments everyone

[Glen]

Rooboy, some excellent captures there. Well done on a hard subject

[Alpha_7]

Rooboy and Macka - Some great shots and bad luck on the new found lust. I just thought I'd mention that I think Macka's Fishbowl Logo could be improved a little, the font is a little block and the jpg artifacts around some of text isn't pretty either. I'm not trying to be overly critical but I particular for a photographic business I think presentation is key.

[macka]

Where are you seeing this Craig - are you talking about on our website or the Pacific cup website? The card on the pacific cup website is crap I agree - it's only a bitmap and if I'd known Dad was going to use it for that I would have given him something else.

[Alpha_7]

Where are you seeing this Craig - are you talking about on our website or the Pacific cup website? The card on the pacific cup website is crap I agree - it's only a bitmap and if I'd known Dad was going to use it for that I would have given him something else.

The pacific cup website, sorry I hadn't checked you site at posting.

[macka]

Where are you seeing this Craig - are you talking about on our website or the Pacific cup website? The card on the pacific cup website is crap I agree - it's only a bitmap and if I'd known Dad was going to use it for that I would have given him something else.

The pacific cup website, sorry I hadn't checked you site at posting.

That's ok - I know I should get him to change that. I sent him a bitmap of my business card just to show him what it looked like, it wasn't intended for display.