Derrel
Mr. Rain Cloud
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2009
- Messages
- 48,225
- Reaction score
- 18,941
- Location
- USA
- Website
- www.pbase.com
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos OK to edit
Last night I was browsing a site that linked to David Bergman's blog,detailing a little bit about how he got this year's SUper Bowl cover photo of Drew Brees holding up his little son after the Saints' win in Super Bowl 44.
David Bergman ALL ACCESS music, sports, and concert photography
In a related note, it's interesting to see that Bergman shot about 3,000 frames from his assigned corner seat in one end zone, and that for much of his shooting he used the Nikon 200-400 f/4 zoom lens on a D3s body--set mostly to ISO 4000 and f/4 with a shutter speed of 1/1250 second.
As a former newspaper sports shooter myself, both as a college kid in the mid-1980's,and then in the mid-2000's decade eras, I took some ribbing recently in another thread from "Wyoming" about being a fanboy because I stated that the new high-ISO bodies are making what was impossible, now possible. it is clearly no longer necessary to have the ultimate in lens aperture to shoot sports successfully; the new cameras are making astronomical ISO's like 4,000, good enough for magazine covers,like Bergman's linked here. His blog post is kind of interesting,and short.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/20100215_SI_Superbowl_cover_sm.jpg
A good example of what the new, High-ISO capable bodies have shown me,and which I was ridiculed for in another thread, is shown by this stadium-seat shot Bergman got of Saints running back Pierre Thomas diving for a touchdown: this was shot with an f/4 lens at ISO 4000 at f/4 at 1/1250 second. Step back just a few years, and this photo would have looked quite different,and it's not likely that he would have used an f/4 zoom lens as his main choice. It wasn't too long ago that ISO 800 was the last good "usable" speed, 1600 demanded noise reduction, and 3200 demanded heavy noise reduction,and quality looked only so-so.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/20100207_Colts_Saints_SuperBowl_sm_1547.jpg
David Bergman ALL ACCESS music, sports, and concert photography
In a related note, it's interesting to see that Bergman shot about 3,000 frames from his assigned corner seat in one end zone, and that for much of his shooting he used the Nikon 200-400 f/4 zoom lens on a D3s body--set mostly to ISO 4000 and f/4 with a shutter speed of 1/1250 second.
As a former newspaper sports shooter myself, both as a college kid in the mid-1980's,and then in the mid-2000's decade eras, I took some ribbing recently in another thread from "Wyoming" about being a fanboy because I stated that the new high-ISO bodies are making what was impossible, now possible. it is clearly no longer necessary to have the ultimate in lens aperture to shoot sports successfully; the new cameras are making astronomical ISO's like 4,000, good enough for magazine covers,like Bergman's linked here. His blog post is kind of interesting,and short.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/20100215_SI_Superbowl_cover_sm.jpg
A good example of what the new, High-ISO capable bodies have shown me,and which I was ridiculed for in another thread, is shown by this stadium-seat shot Bergman got of Saints running back Pierre Thomas diving for a touchdown: this was shot with an f/4 lens at ISO 4000 at f/4 at 1/1250 second. Step back just a few years, and this photo would have looked quite different,and it's not likely that he would have used an f/4 zoom lens as his main choice. It wasn't too long ago that ISO 800 was the last good "usable" speed, 1600 demanded noise reduction, and 3200 demanded heavy noise reduction,and quality looked only so-so.
http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/20100207_Colts_Saints_SuperBowl_sm_1547.jpg