As a couple of you know I am into Ice Hockey, but it all started by shooting an amatuer team back when I had my Pentax K10D... they used to just train and wanted pictures for facebook. It gave me practice and it gave them use of images on facebook, and if they wanted any prints, they asked me for them, and got charged for them accordingly.
Now Ive met some fantastic friends through there, and we have some very good laughs together. And this is the only 2nd time I have been down to training since I have got the "right kit" for my D200 - the images are now uploaded onto flickr, my page on facebook and the "Steel City Shogun's" page on facebook. The final images for facebook are watermarked, so everyone knows who has taken them, but not some big dodgy horrible water mark, a nice one generally in the bottom hand corner, that you cannot crop out without completely destroying the picture
I am looking at getting some moo-cards made up with hockey pics on, with the information of where the pictures are going to be hosted online, cos a lot of people dont seem to be getting them until the ask me where they are the next time they see me!
All I have seemed to do today is edit the pictures from Ice hockey. A batch process is run on them, which the computer happily did on its own, but I have to crop a fair few of them just to get it "right" for me, and this is what takes the time. Who-ever said it was going to be easy eh?
6.5GB of images - all shot in RAW approximately 450 in total....In 1 hour!
I am getting the hang of panning with them now - and found this time a lot better than the time before - and I think thats why the success rate seems to be a lot higher!
Its not an easy sport to shoot though! And the lighting is horrible!!!!