East West Bank Classic 2009 Photo Gallery by Danny Tuason at pbase.com

East West Bank Classic 2009

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From August 3 to August 8, 2009 I shot the East West Bank Classic in Carson, CA. At the start my main goal was to shoot Maria Sharapova...my no. 1 favorite women's tennis player...but I guess I got caught up in the action of pro women's tennis. I loved it...so I tried to shoot everybody...with my cameras of course. I brought the 1Ds3, the 50D, and the G10.

Most of the pro photographers there brought their sports cameras...either a Canon 1D series or a Nikon D3. The 5fps of my 1Ds3 pales in comparison to their fps performance. Anyway that didn't deter me from shooting. Timing was the key.

Here are my 49 galleries...47 player galleries...1 miscellaneous gallery (Spit Bucket)...and 1 doubles match gallery.

Spit Bucket	Su-Wei Hsieh/Shuai Peng vs Maria Kirilenko/Agnieszka Radwanska	Victoria Azarenka	Sybille Bammer	Alona Bondarenko
Anna Chakvetadze	Dominika Cibulkova	Sorana Cirstea	Jill Craybas	Michelle Larcher de Brito
Jarmila Groth	Carly Gullickson	Daniela Hantuchova	Ana Ivanovic	Kaia Kanepi
Vania King	Maria Kirilenko	Alisa Kleybanova	Michaella Krajicek	Varvara Lepchenko
Na Li	Sabine Lisicki	Ekaterina Makarova	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Monica Niculescu
Melanie Oudin	Shahar Peer	Flavia Pennetta	Shuai Peng	Nadia Petrova
Agnieszka Radwanska	Urszula Radwanska	Virginie Razzano	Anastasia Rodionova	Lucie Safarova
Dinara Safina	Chanelle Scheepers	Francesca Schiavone	Maria Sharapova	Meghann Shaughnessy
Samantha Stosur	Ai Sugiyama	Agnes Szavay	Elena Vesnina	Yanina Wickmayer
Caroline Wozniacki	Aleksandra Wozniak	Jie Zheng	Vera Zvonareva	bătaie !
сражение !	сражение !	fight !	קרב	hala bira !
Strike A Pose !	Boo-Yah !

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Paulo Calafate		06-Nov-2009 13:48
excellent gallery with great moments captured and well frozen with mastery

Joel Escala		05-Oct-2009 14:56
Excellent coverage Danny. All your hard work paid off and it shows in your photo. Well done. Thank for even sharing your experiences and tips! VVV

Andy Sobanski		05-Oct-2009 02:30
Fantastic job. Thanks for sharing.

jmb_56		24-Sep-2009 00:38
Excellent captures, voted!

Ashraf Kabil		24-Sep-2009 00:15
Great work and outstanding galley, hope next time you will have time to have fun!

Yi Feng		24-Sep-2009 00:13
Some great captures!

Carol Anne		23-Sep-2009 23:56
very spectacular sports gallery - voted

Eldar Kadymov		23-Sep-2009 02:28
Holy macro... far away from ordinary ! V

dond		22-Sep-2009 17:30
Action packed...you have a lot of winners here.

Jim & Josefina		22-Sep-2009 15:57
Great action shots! The ladies make the gallery more interesting and fun! VVV!... Josefina

Danny Tuason		22-Sep-2009 01:33
Thank you very much Levent! 400mm? Hehehe! I guess I must buy that second hand Canon 1200mm F5.6 IS L lens from B&H for 100,000 dollars immediately. I better ask Uncle Barack the Pied Piper for some stimulus money. Do you think he will give me 100,000 dollars paid for by the honest to goodness hardworking taxpayers from America? Hmmm! I guess not! I am not AIG!

Inal		22-Sep-2009 00:52
Great work but I don't know if 400mm is too close to some of the women :) you know what I mean - cheers :)

Danny Tuason		20-Sep-2009 00:16
This was my very first time to shoot pro women's tennis so I learned a lot. 1. I learned about the proper focal lengths to use. In my opinion...that is the 400mm from across the court, 200mm from the press box, 135mm from the press box (to catch more action). A 300mm lens would be nice for tightly framed shots from the press box. 2. Avoid using TC's. 3. Shutter speed...shutter speed....shutter speed...keep that ball round...not oblong. 4. ISO 3200 is good enough...just use some good noise reduction software. I use Noise Ninja 2. Please don't reduce the noise too much...or else... 5. The 1Ds3...a 21.1 megapixel camera...lots of cropping power. Hmmm! That's great! 6. I shouldn't be trigger happy without a sports camera...proper timing is the key. Next year I will get a 1D4...to be better prepared for sports action shots. 5. I should bring a towel for the afternoon matches... 6. I should use a sunscreen next time. 7. I should move around more...to get different angles. 8. I should have more fun! I should not try to shoot everything. It's impossible in the first place. I should spend more time to watch the game. Well not really! For the first 2 days I should continue and try to shoot everything. By the third day I can relax (less matches) and spend more time watching the games.

Dave Sears		16-Sep-2009 17:16
Awesome Gallery. Great action pictures.

James Hudyma		05-Sep-2009 02:30
Outstanding gallery!

Marc de Wit		03-Sep-2009 20:47
superb !

Pedro Lib�rio		02-Sep-2009 22:09
stunning gallerys my friend...my congrats ..you have done an impressive register of it...

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