Photo | Shoot Like A Pro On The Cheap! Rugby Photos With The New Sigma 150-500 Mm Lens
Took the new Sigma 150-500mm lens out for a trip on Sunday morning. Gloomy day so wasn’t expecting too much, but I was very impressed with the quality of this piece of kit! It was fun to watch the parents gawping at the size of the lens, and one guy even asked where my tripod was! Don’t need it with this stabilised beastie:)
It focussed quickly and accurately, hunted a little sometimes in 3D mode but in centre frame mode was spot on. I took a couple of hundred shots and have already sold lots so the club will benefit! It’s not too heavy but I did have a slight ache in the elbow joints at the end of the day, that could have been from lugging the Click system around, or from the 1000+ Boxing shots the night before. is there an ailment for Togs like Tennis elbow?
When I got into the clubhouse all the players and parents wanted to see the shots, and as I had done an event the night before I had the Mitsubishi Click system in the car. So I set it up with Grahams excellent Event Pro software running on a Dell touchscreen and got swamped!
The guys who run the club wanted to see the print quality so it was back to the car for the 9550 printer. As soon as they saw the quality I was besieged by parents wanting photos so ended up busily printing and mounting all by myself.
Everyone loved the photos and I’m now the club photographer for the finals in May. I’ve also had a lot of sales from the website so maybe the moral of the tale is to always carry a complete portable photo studio around with you:)
I’ve been a keen photographer for many years, but at the age of 50 decided to go pro. Great excuse to buy the best gear! After a lot of research I brought a new Nikon D700, a Sigma 24-70 HSM lens, a Nikon SB-900 main flashgun with two SB-600 flashguns to use as slaves. Now I’ve added the Sigma 150-500mm after selling my Nikon 14-24mm which wasn’t getting much use.
I’ve now got a website http://www.fullframeevents.co.uk where you can see examples of what we do. It’s great fun, hard work, but very rewarding and I love it!. It’s all going well so I decided to share some of what I’ve learned. Hope it’s helpful, Paul.
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