Went with the photo club yesterday to try and shoot my first sporting event… A basketball game at the local university. Definitely a challenge for someone that’s used to taking photos of objects that haven’t moved for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Edited in dt 5.0 windows.
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Well, that’s something completely different, then 
Cool outcome from your first tries, #1439 I like most, nice how you captured the scene 
. Sport is very challenging also for me - I’m sometimes trying to improve my skills when I’m going to ice-hockey matches… If only they didn’t move so fast 
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I am no longer involved with fencing (too old, too decrepit), but as you can imagine I have taken pictures at fencing events. These two were taken at the 2012 Olympics, for which I was a volunteer.
Taken with a compact camera, since one wasn’t allowed to take a DSLR into the volunteers areas.
The second, at the Paralympics was a little easier, but they still move fast.
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Shaking off the dust that’s been accumulating on my camera…
On a walkabout near work and chasing butterflies. Capturing the little buggers is a pain, so I took a photo of where they were (and were going to be). 
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Wow - that are really impressive, vivid pictures. Thanks for sharing them and their (and your) background here, and how cool to have the opportunity to shoot at the Olympics
They look like Christmas tree baubles!
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Nice shake man…shake it some more!
Flies are hard to shoot because they get spooked easily especially if you cast a shadow over them, but it was overcast on this day so I could get much closer than usual.
Using capture sharpening in darktable. Not sure if it’s oversharpened or not. The zoomed in one is just a 1080px crop from the full sized image.
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Hi @raublekick
As much as I dislike flies, I do admire the quality of your fine photo.
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They’ve been unusually bad here this week to the point that I heard the city is going to look into it. I think the end of summer mosquitos are finally gone at least…
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Fascinating shots, and I think it’s not oversharpened (viewing while having the day’s first cappuccino, perhaps biased 
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