World Club Challenge at Elland Road

[Gary Coyle]

At a soaking wet Elland Road last night i put the new D3's through it's paces for the first time and it performed flawlessly, AF was blistering fast, Tracking did what it was supposed to do and stick to the subject like 3 week old Dog Crap, and all this with no setting up of the AF system, i took it out of the box 24 hours earlier and it just works.

All shot between ISO 4,000 to 6,400

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[Gary Coyle]

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[KIPAX]

your canon shots looked better!

























































aww come on.. I had to haha

 

[Gary Coyle]

PMSL

 

[Rovers_Andy]

You bad bad man :nono: this really isn't helping

 

[Rovers_Andy]

seriously though i really like these

1,2,5,7 and 8 are awesome

 

[Chris Taylor]

Great work Gary as per usual.

 

[SKP]

very impressive mate as allways it was beyond me why you ever switched back in the first place Gary.

 

[Gary Coyle]

Got front pages in both the Weekly RL papers

 

[P-E]

Quality

 

[Dave450]

Great shot, 2 and 3 look like they were in sequence, but reversed here on the forums

 

[KIPAX]

Got front pages in both the Weekly RL papers

good one

 

[Gary Coyle]

Heres some links to higher res versions with exif intact, these are 7x5inch @ 300ppi and are exactly as i sent them out to the papers

Bear in mind the attrocious conditions and lighting at Elland road

1 Jamie Peacock, this is about a 50% crop

http://www.gcsportsphotos.co.uk/peacock01.jpg

2 Jesse Bromwich, again, about 50% filled the frame

http://www.gcsportsphotos.co.uk/jesse01.jpg

3 Celebration, about 70% of the frame

http://www.gcsportsphotos.co.uk/cele01.jpg

4 Todd Lowrie, about 50-60 of frame

http://www.gcsportsphotos.co.uk/cele01.jpg

5 Aiden Tolmen, quite a severe crop, about 30% of frame

http://www.gcsportsphotos.co.uk/aiden01.jpg

 

[Graham00]

Great set, what lens did you use for these Gary ? incidentally my dad is a Wigan fan all because he spent time in the army with a wigan player in the 60's lol.

 

[Gary Coyle]

Hi Graham

i used a Nikon 300mm f/2.8 AF-S II

 

[scottthehat]

awsome set gary, and a great choice

 

[Gary Coyle]

Would everyone agree that Melbourne Storm have pinched my image http://www.melbournestorm.com.au/default.aspx?s=article-display&id=23105&storm-all-the-rage
There was only one other tog within 30 metres of me, he was to my right by about 4 metres but this is pixel perfect my image which has been cropped from No5 above and just lightened a little bit, even every little rain drop is in the exact same place.

 

[Rovers_Andy]

i've just played spot the difference and it looks exactly the same to me, you can see the ball is in exactly the same position and there is a small speck of mud, level with the name on the back of the Storm players Top

 

[Rocket58]

Hope you don't mind but here's your with there's superimposed on top.
Looks like 100% your image.

 

[Gary Coyle]

Cheers Ron, and the sneaky sods have just cropped out the bit of flying mud which would have made it even more obvious. just need to check rlphotos haven't sold the photo on before i take any action.

 

[scottthehat]

defo yours gary, let us know how you get on.

 

[Gary Coyle]

Just an update, several of my images were sold onto Melbourne Storm, i spoke to Dave at rlphotos last night and he said he sold them on via his website so i get a cut, you really have to be eagle eyed though to see where they end up or you could miss out.