{"id":2112,"date":"2009-09-26T23:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2009-09-27T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T06:14:51","slug":"afl-football-grand-final-candid-portraits-with-the-olympus-zd-50-200mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"AFL Football Grand Final – candid portraits with the Olympus ZD 50-200mm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t manage to get tickets to watch my team Geelong play the Saints in today’s AFL football Grand Final, so I decided to go to Melbourne’s Federation Square to watch the game on the big screen on a very wet, cold Spring day which included a hail storm.<\/p>\n

As an aside, the AFL Grand Final at Melbourne’s MCG stadium hosts one of the biggest stadium crowds in the world, 99,251 spectators attended today’s game creating a special ambience (however, the record for the MCG was 121,696 in the 1970 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and Collingwo0d).<\/p>\n

I decided to leave my Canon 1DMIII at home and take my favorite combination: Olympus E510 + Olympus ZD 50-200mm f\/2.8-3.5 SWD lens and my Panasonic GH-1 with Leica 25mm f\/1.4 lens for the night shots without flash.<\/p>\n

The Olympus lens got very wet in the rain, although I managed to protect the E510 as well as I could, and the resulting candid portraits were worth it – even though they were mainly of Saints supporters.<\/p>\n

Again, all were straight jpegs from the camera, AWB, no post-processing apart from resizing for the web. All were aperture priority exposure at wide open aperture although the night shots on the stage were manual exposure.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

\"little<\/a><\/p>\n

and this one amazes me how any camera could meter the skin tones perfectly when there is such backlight combined with a black umbrella to confuse the meter – maybe they just neutralised each other out, or maybe the metering is good?<\/p>\n

\"umbrella<\/a><\/p>\n

Check the full photo story here<\/a> and look at how nice the bokeh is with that lens …. delicious \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t manage to get tickets to watch my team Geelong play the Saints in today’s AFL football Grand Final, so I decided to go to Melbourne’s Federation Square to watch the game on the big screen on a very wet, cold Spring day which included a hail storm. As an aside, the AFL Grand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[150,17,14,15,37],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-football","tag-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-panasonic","tag-zd-50-200mm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t