Posts Tagged ‘Extreme Sports’

Molly Rogers Roller Derby, Black & Blue Ball 2011

Molly Rogers Roller Derby team had their annual Black & Blue Ball 2011 at the Henegar Center. Was a wonderful event and girls and support staff had a great time.

Graffiti Battle

Slow and Sone judged a Graffiti Battle held at “The Park“. I wander down to see the battle and check out the park. I have fond memories of skate parks, my first broken bones was from skateboarding. The park is indoors and very impressive.

Graffiti Battle, Slow - Sone, The Park Skate Park

Bellator 34

Bellator 34

Big night last night, stepping up to shoot professional MMA at Bellator Fighting Championships 34 tonight at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood Florida.

I have to say the MMA Bellator Fighting Championships 34 where great. They know how to put on a very professional event. I spent the night cage side shooting for CagePotato.com thanks guys for the hook up.

I have to say the Fujii/Frausto match up as a war! It was a 5 round slug fest, those ladies left everything in the cage last night.

Bad luck for Florida’s Igor Almeida, he lost by TKO via doctor stoppage for a very nasty gash over the right eye. Hope to see you in the cage again soon. Hope to see him in another Bellator Fighting Championships match up.

Mixed Martial Arts in Brevard

mg_7764-version-2 This weekend I got the oprotuninty to cover a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) show in Brevard County. The Event was promoted by Extreme Cage Fights (www.xcfights.com) and help at Levelz Night Club. I was really impressed with the professionalism and the sportsmanship of all the fighters and the promoters.

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Molly Rogers Roller Girls!!!

Molly Rogers Roller Girls

Canon G10 & Underwater enclosure…

I was out at 2nd Light Surf Spot with my Canon G10 & underwater enclosure, working on my shooting technique from the water. Shoot from the water is a much greater challenge than shoot with a big lens from the beach. I learned a great deal from my first attempt. I need to use a boogie board and or scuba fins.

The G10 is pretty good camera, since I am shooting full sun light I don’t have to work about high ISO noise. What would make it better would be an external aiming system that would allow better subject tracking, the LCD is no match for full sun light. I wish the frame rate was higher. I also getting the subject closer is key, which is hard since the environment is very dynamic.

More Surfing at 2nd Light

This is the 2nd set form Thursday, I was there for a few hours shooting, I have been working on my technique for shooting land based surfing. I used the Canon 5D mk II and the 2.8f L 400mm lens with a 2X Teleconverter. The 5D mk II doesn’t have a fast frame rate, but with a full size sensor and 24 meg a pixel sensor I can crop half the image away and still have a plenty of image quality for printing images. I use Apple photography program Aperture. The first thing I do is down load all the images to my computer. Then I start to grade the images, Apertures auto stacking makes this a very fast.