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The D7000

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Posted by theman1050: Tue May 29th, 2012 05:05

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Since picking up my D7000 last September, I've really unlocked it's potential as a great advanced amateur/semi-pro camera and I realized that it is still a worthy high-end DX camera for another few months. So I created the thread where users can post about the D7000 (and so I can show off my new pictures ;-)

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This weekend I was shooting the NCAA Div. 1 Women's Lacrosse Championship in New York for my school (the host site) and for the NCAA. I was asked to get stadium/crowd/fan shots and then anything from the game I got, I could also submit. After 2 late nights and three games, I am back alive and continuing to rave about my D7000 and 70-300 VR. 6 fps is plenty fast for me (after graduating from the painfully slow D40, I'm not the "grip and rip" style of sports photography) and shooting at 3200 iso was no issue at all. 300mm is actually 450 on the DX sensor so I could easily shoot action at 70 yards away.

Overall, I was very pleased with my photos, I found them (the good ones) to be only "above average." None of the jumped out as me as stunning photos, but I think that was more on the user than the camera.

Anyways, here's a link for my dropbox and you all can look at them as you please.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/95cdd14oirqfhfb/cYgjLsqppX

some notes: a lot of the photos were cropped, mainly to clean up some images of free space (grass, stadia, etc.) and some were taken with my other camera and lenses, which were: D40, 35 1.8G, 50 1.8D. The shots on the dropbox folder are from the championship game, but i also shot the semifinal matches earlier in the weekend.

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Posted by richw: Tue May 29th, 2012 06:24

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There are a couple of nice ones where you have filled the frame and isolated the action. Number 9919 is an example, I'd actually try to crop in even closer maybe using the Lacrosse sticks to form the top two corners and bringing the bottom edge up to mid thigh on the girl in orange, although her foot in bottom corner is a nice touch, but impact wise larger and more focus on the expressions works.

Some of the others are a bit confused and so a little ho-hum, 9907 might be an example. Others where there is no face, so no expression miss the mark because of this, 9969 might be an example.

I'd prune harder and display fewer. Get rid of the 50% here that you are least happy with and I think the impact of the collection would be greater.

I think some of these would also benefit quite a bit from some post production, mainly just cropping to get rid of distractions and fill the frame with the action.

Less DoF would also be good, so shoot wide open and at max zoom although the lens may be getting in the way a bit here. You can do this in post but it's a pain so probably only worth doing the five star shots.

Posted by Iain: Thu May 31st, 2012 10:17

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A nice set of photos, Rich has covered most of the points.

If you are wanting to push these to papers then the tight crop is the way to go as that is what they want, they want to see things like facial expressions etc.

When you can afford it a 70/80-200 f2.8 would be a good investment and that will help with the DOF.

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