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Saturday 23 May 2015

Pancreatic Cancer

So I find myself at the second Ben Manners Memorial Trophy 5 a side football competition. In aid of  Pancreatic Cancer research Fund PCRF
I was there to support and enjoy, however, there was no one to take official type photos. So here I am on a purely social event and all of a sudden now official photographer, no pressure then.

I am armed with a manual focus camera, a 35mm lens, no flash and who knows what type of indoor lighting.

First things first lets sort out the white balance. This was done  manually in camera using a WhiBal Card

Most shots were pre focused and then waited for the action to to come to me. I had the lens pressed hard up against the netting to try and remove it from the shot..
I then grabbed some informal shots. and finally the presentation to the winners from Ben's sisters.

Overall I am quite happy with the results given I had not arrived expecting to take 'the' photos.

I hope they meet the needs of those that asked me to take them.

So regardless of time, I ask you to raise a cup, mug or glass to Ben Manners.

All shots taken on M9 and Voightlander 35mm f1.4. ISO800.  If you are by any chance a regular, then you will already know these are straight off the chip no fiddling about.

Well done to all.




















Sunday 17 May 2015

West End 8

One of the many annual running events came to town today. The West End 8. Start and finish at Syston Rugby Club. Quite a demanding course with many hills. I decided to pitch myself at the top of the very steep and demanding hill in South Croxton. Back in the day, I have ran this course myself, always felt like I was wearing my lungs on the outside.

Today I gave an airing to the little used Leica 90mm tele-elmarit f2.8. Seemed to work quite well. Set a manual white balance in camera, Pre focused, iso 200 no more than f4 and good to go.

Rattled off 80 odd shots.

Why is it the ones that make it look easy never seem to be in touch with the road?

Another one

Same hill very different faces.
Who looks comfortable? it's the floater again.
This is what support and encouragement looks like.
This is what commitment looks like.
The award for most colourful goes to.

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