Experimentation night, while assisting to my daughter Val’s most recent soccer game, my idea was to create artistic sport photography via motion blur, while using the iPhone as the camera, which is the last thing you want to use for fast moving subject.

I took a ton of shots to keep only 2 and then I had a great time in post production.

By the way, Val scored a beautiful goal with her head, a gem. Her team won 4-2.

Camera iPhone

François Meehan

While coming back from a long solitary bike ride on the canal de Soulanges , I noticed a strange scene. A group of young persons were working on a wooden ramp right beside the water and another guy was preparing to launch his small BMX cycle (fitted with pieces of foam) toward the ramp.

Wow! Wait for me please!

There is just one little problem. As a personal photo challenge, I sometimes like to go for an outing with only one lens. Whatever happens I will have to live with the results. That day, I selected the LensBaby composer, cool lens but its totally manual, no autofocus and I have 1 minute to get ready.

This is really not the lens for this type of job.

All right, I’ll shoot by instinct with a little prayer to the photo gods.

Finally, I think this was just the right lens for the job

Nikon D90
Exposure : 1/1250
Aperture : f/2.8
ISO: 160
Focal length : 50 mm
Lentille LensBaby Composer
Aperture, Topaz Denoise 4 and Adjust 4, Nik ColorEfex pro

François Meehan

This picture was taken in Valleyfield, a few weeks ago, during the qualifications for “les jeux du Québec”.

As the organizer allowed me to get close to the action, I choose to use my faithful 50 mm lens. That way I had plenty of light and was able to use a decent shutter speed (1/500 of a second) to freeze the movement.

Nikon D90
Exposition : 1/500
Ouverture : f/2.4
ISO: 1000
Longueur focale : 50 mm (75 en DX)
Aperture, Topaz Denoise 3 et Detail, Nik ColorEfex pro

Bad news… My D90 is in a bad shape, the rough landing on the sidewalk was damaging. The base of the body is cracked. No DSLR for at least 3 weeks. And the invoice might be hard to swallow.

As I said before, photography is a dangerous sport, this time the wallet will be the victim.

François Meehan

A young fencer in action during the last “Jeux du Québec” at Valleyfield P.Q., last Saturday (January 16 2010) at the Sainte-Cécile center.

Wonderful moments camera on hand, among the young competitors practicing their noble sports

Nikon D90
Exposure : 1/90
Aperture : f/5.6
ISO: 1000
Focal length : 105 mm (157en DX)
Aperture, Topaz Denoise 3 and Detail, Nik ColorEfex pro and Sharpener Pro

I took a couple of beautiful shots that day, that I will publish in the next few days.

An excellent photograph from Flickr, Sylvain Mercier, was on site as a volunteer. A million thanks to you Sylvain!

François Meehan