The Knights Tournament

[Rich]

Hi All,

A friend and I spent Sunday at the Knights Tournament at Scarborough Castle. Much merryment was had by all ;)

Full album is here: http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/index.html although i have only managed to post process about half the images so far. Joust etc yet to come.


My Favourites of the Foot Battle Series:

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight25.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight3.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight8.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight7.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight9.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight18.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight21.jpg

http://www.30d.co.uk/2006/Knights%20Tournament/Foot%20Battle/slides/fight26.jpg

All shots taken with the 70-300 Sigma, which held up well on some occasions and let me down badly on others. The lens is worthless wide open!!

Comments and Criticism very much appreciated.

Thanks,

[Bachs]

Great stuff Rich!

I love covering these kind of events :)

[RobertP]

Plenty of good action shots there. Shame about all the people in the background. The people in chairs at the guys shoulder level looks really strange :) Not much you could do about that though.

I had a look through the others you linked to. Nice fast site there.

[matty]

pretty good stuff, you did well to get the shots with the shiney armour

You can send your lens to sigma for calibration you know, i bought a duff 18-50 which is being sorted right now, as mine was out of warrenty it will cost £33

[chuckles]

Excellent. I really enjoy trying these kind of events. A challenge as always but it keeps the eye keen :)

[Rich]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Yep, it was a shame about the crowd/cars/transit vans but unavoidable im afraid :(

As for recalibration, do you think it would help? Basically at 300mm at f/5.6 its worthless. So blurred. You really have to stop down to f/9 or more to make the shots worthwhile. The general impression i got of this lens is that this is pretty much par for the course, it was afterall only £115. Im still considering the Sigma 100-300 F/4 as its replacement :D

There was a guy there with a monster piece of L glass too, looked like the official photog. Was a very large prime, 400-600mm ish with 2 TC's :lol:
He was handholding it too o_O

[matty]

look at the colchester zoo lon shots i took, they were at F5.6, and a couple at 300mm, so it is possible to get the lens to work reasonably well, if your considering getting a replacement its probably not worth it, but if your intending to keep it, its worth sending a few test shots to sigma, they will look and tell you whats what, they may require the camera and lens for a couple of days to calibrate lens to camera...