Sometimes I wish I were a girl. Being able to enjoy the finer things in life like lamps and interior decorating, order fruity cocktails, and be able to enroll in the roller derby league. I attended my first bout last weekend at the Gold Coast Convention Center between the Sun State Roller Girls (SSRG) and the Victorian Roller Derby League (VRDL). While the match was close the VRDL streaked ahead after half time and crushed our team quite handily. Wow I’ve never referred to any sports team as “our” team before, and that is the draw of roller derby. Guys and girls, outcasts and miscreants, pasty sun hating nerds and geeks (myself included), even those who hate sport can find something to love about roller derby.
I was unable to get a spot close to the action, but figured I’d try take a few shots from the grandstand. I’ve never tried heavily cropping a shot from the 5dmk2 before, and the results were pleasantly suprising. With 21.1 megapixels to work with, you can crop the hell out of an image and still maintain detail. Here’s a comparison between the full image and the crop. Not bad huh? I’d still love a 70-200 though… *wavy screen and daydreaming music*
High quality edited shot, extreme crop. The detail from so far away, with such poor stadium lightning can still be recovered.
The original untouched image.
