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Russia's Maria Sharapova serves against Italy's Francesca Schiavone during the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo February 1, 2007. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN)
I've never seen this color of green outside of California. You could probably make a tennis ball by rolling up an armful of the hillside. Mt. Diablo.
I'm far too busy to keep up with myself these days, so I've decided to give up on posting photos in chronological order, and I'm also going to post less photos, sharing only my best work, in hopes of being a little more active here, and elsewhere online.
So here's something I did about a week ago. I've been working on it for the last few days because I was curious to see how it would look.
It didn't turn out quite like I'd envisioned (they never do) but it was fairly close. My framing could have been better, but I was rushed by a hungry swarm of mosquitoes.
I used 257 photos, cutting out one or two tennis balls from each one, so you wouldn't see my helper and myself in the shot. (aside from the last shot where I posed between the nets)
I'd like to try this with basket balls in a basket ball court, baseballs in a baseball field... you get the idea.
Bare midriff practice session at the U.S. OPen
my 2008 U.S. Open pics can be found exclusively at www.tennis-babes.com
This was only my second time shooting tennis, but my experience with shooting surf and fast moving jets has helped me to hone my tracking and action anticipation abilities which helped a lot. With the help of the blazing fast Z9 I was able to get loads of shots right when the ball was hitting the racket and being deformed. While it looks cool, I find it doesn't really tell a story. I like the shots just before the strike the best. Where the players are wound up, ready to pounce, all focus is on the ball and they are ready to strike!
www.yonexusa.comSabine Lisicki swinging her VCORE TOUR 97 yonexusa.com/displayproduct.cfm?productid=990 racquet at the 2012 Wimbledon Tournament