England vs Australia ODI
Trent Bridge, September 2024
Shooting sports on film again, this time international cricket at Trent Bridge Nottingham.
Knowing the weather was going to be good and the evening would be played out under floodlights, I was keen to shoot in colour and grabbed a roll of Kodak UltraMax 400 film - it’s neutral, slightly cool but bright colours worked well.
Other than the wide ground shots I used my 500mm mirror lens to get as close as possible to the action. Whilst I love this lens for its diminutive size and weight, it’s quite unforgiving with a very narrow depth of field, so you have to work hard to manually focus very carefully. To assist, and ensure I could shoot at reasonable shutter speeds, I used a monopod and SpeediGimbal for support.
Olympus OM-10, 500mm mirror, UltraMax 400
