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East West Bank Classic 2009

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

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Danny Tuason 06-Nov-2009 15:50
Obrigado Paulo!
Paulo Calafate 06-Nov-2009 13:48
excellent gallery with great moments captured and well frozen with mastery
Danny Tuason 05-Oct-2009 15:18
Maraming salamat pareng Joel !
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
Danny Tuason 05-Oct-2009 02:38
Thanks Andy!
Andy Sobanski 05-Oct-2009 02:30
Fantastic job. Thanks for sharing.
Danny Tuason 24-Sep-2009 00:38
Maraming salamat pareng Joji !
jmb_56 24-Sep-2009 00:38
Excellent captures, voted!
Danny Tuason 24-Sep-2009 00:24
Thank you very much Ashraf !

Having this experience and knowing already what to do, I will find more time to have fun...next time!
Danny Tuason 24-Sep-2009 00:22
Thank you very much Yi !
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!
Danny Tuason 24-Sep-2009 00:11
Thank you very much Carol !
Carol Anne 23-Sep-2009 23:56
very spectacular sports gallery - voted
Danny Tuason 23-Sep-2009 02:49
Spasibo Eldar !
Eldar Kadymov 23-Sep-2009 02:28
Holy macro... far away from ordinary ! V
Danny Tuason 22-Sep-2009 17:31
Thank you very much Don!
dond 22-Sep-2009 17:30
Action packed...you have a lot of winners here.
Danny Tuason 22-Sep-2009 16:01
Maraming salamat Josefina!
James Bonner 22-Sep-2009 15:57
Great action shots! The ladies make the gallery more interesting and fun! VVV!... Josefina
Danny Tuason 22-Sep-2009 14:58
Oops! There is one more valuable lesson I learned.

There is a color change (even with the same exact settings) between the 50D and the 1Ds3. Next year I will bring only one camera...hopefully a 1D4...so no more color change.

Actually there will still be some color change...when I change lenses...plus when the lighting conditions change.

Thanks to Ivan Trombley for bringing it up.
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.
Danny Tuason 16-Sep-2009 17:25
Thank you very much Dave!
Dave Sears 16-Sep-2009 17:16
Awesome Gallery. Great action pictures.
Danny Tuason 05-Sep-2009 04:11
Thank you very much James!
James Hudyma 05-Sep-2009 02:30
Outstanding gallery!
Danny Tuason 03-Sep-2009 21:04
Dank je wel Marc!
Marc de Wit 03-Sep-2009 20:47
superb !
Danny Tuason 02-Sep-2009 22:35
Obrigado meu amigo Pedro!

Saude!

Danny :)
Pedro Libório 02-Sep-2009 22:09
stunning gallerys my friend...my congrats ..you have done an impressive register of it...
Danny Tuason 24-Aug-2009 10:41
From August 3 to August 8 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 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 48 galleries...47 players...and 1 miscellaneous gallery.

I welcome all comments!

Danny :)

PS The players are in alphabetical order.
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