George du Rand smashes the 200m backstroke world record today (7 November 2009) in a time of 1min. 47.08sec in Moscow Russia at the Fina/Arena World Cup Swimming event.
The old record was held by Markus Rogan of Austria. His world record time was 1min 47,84sec.
Here an image of George that i took at the African leg of the Fina/Arena World Cup swimming on 17 October 2009 in Durban.
Gerhard
For the second time Fourie du Preez received the player of the year award. Here an image of him during the Currie Cup final between the Bulls and the Cheetahs at Loftus Versfeld on 31 October 2009. Heinrich Brussow running behind him got the young player of the year award.
Gerhard
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Congratulations to the Bulls and tough luck to the Cheetahs. Fourie du Preez was outstanding to create three tries against the run of play.
At least the Cheetahs won two of the three national titles with the 0/19 and 0/21 teams beating the Lions and the Sharks selectively in their finals at Loftus on Saturday. Well done Cheetahs were all proud of you!!!
Here an image of Victor Matfield running onto the field in his 5oth game for the Bulls.
More images of the three games on www.supermedia.co.za
Gerhard
My brother Stones busy building me my new guitar. To view more of these handmade master pieces go to guitars-SA.co.za
Gerhard
To think the U/19, U/21 and the senior Cheetah teams in the finals in Pretoria on the 31 October 2009. If there is a will there is a way!!
An image of myself taking photos at the semi Final on 17 October in Durban during the semi Final between the Cheetahs and the Sharks. I’m busy taking photos of the Cheetahs celebrating their 23-21 win with my Nikon D3 and 10.5mm F2.8 fisheye lens.
Photo taking by photographer Howard Cleland.
Images of the game can be viewed at www.supermedia.co.za
Gerhard
16-17 October 2009 Durban hosted the South African leg of the Fina World cup short course swimming champs. Therese Alshammar of Sweden was the big star with two world records to her name in the 100m IM and the 50m Fly events.
I went to the event with the attitude to really try and took as many shots that isn’t the normal straight forward action shots and really got away with some amazing images. These image can be viewed on www.supermedia.co.za
Here an image of Jessica Pengelly, South African swimmer. i used a shutter speed of 1/40 sec to get the result.
A documentary image of photographers Anesh Debiky, Christiaan Kotze and Steve Haag. I don’t know what the difference is between normal images and documentary images but know when i see it. Maybe it is the story telling effect .
Sometimes even something getting in the way can produce some interesting photos.
Here the TV camera Crew in action at 1/30 sec.
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Gerhard
Sometimes life is just better in Black and White and that also apply to Sport images. If you get bored with your images in color it’s always worth trying some black and white images.
Open your image in Photoshop. Press Shift – Alt – Control – B and the Black and White page will open. Set your contrast to your liking and press okay. That’s it, as simple and easy as that.
Here two images of the game between the Cheetahs and the Leopards on friday 2 October in Bloemfontein South Africa.
JW Jonker on the run.
Nico Breedt over for a try.
Gerhard
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The past week i had the priviledge to cover five of the ICC Champions Trophy games in Gauteng South Africa. The images can be viewed on www.supermedia.co.za It was great to sit next to all the big names in the Sports Photography world and chat to them about angles and watch their workflow they using on their laptops. On Monday 5 October i’m going to cover the Final and looking forward to it. The Final will be at Centurion Pretoria which lend it more to nice images than at the Wanderers in Johannesburg.
I got this nice image of the Wanderers Cricket Ground on Tuesday 29 September 2009 when England played New Zealand. I used a Nikon D3 and a Nikon 10,5mm F2.8 lens.
Gerhard
Celtic beats Kaizer Chiefs yesterday 1-0 and stay at third place on the log of the PSL. Kaizer Chiefs with seven points remain at 11th position on the log. Prince Olomu scored celtic’s only goal in the last five minutes of the game. Vodacom Park nearly erupt when over forty thousand supporters went crazy and were ecstatic with their home team playing so well at the moment.
At half time the noise levels were so high, the announcer ask the spectators to calm down because the players couldn’t hear each other talk in the dressing room. I think this will rate as one of my top 5 atmospheres i experienced in my life at a sporting event.
Here an image of Prince Olomu, the goal scorer for Celtic FC.
I used a Nikon D3 and a 400mm F2.8 lens with a 1.4 converter fitted to it. My settings were as follow;
Shutter: 1/800 sec
Aperture: F4
ISO: 3200
White Balance: 5000 Kelvin
Gerhard
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South Africa lose the opening match of the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy yesterday when Sri Lanka defeated them at Centurion in Pretoria. This put the Proteas under so much pressure for the rest of the series.
Here two moments which i think switch the game in Sri Lanka’s favour.
Tillakaratne Dilshan getting his 100. He ended up making 106.
JP Duminy clean bowled by Ajantha Mendis for a duck.
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Gerhard
