Wellington Netball

...Kia ora all!

My name is Mark (aka as Banquet Bear) and I am a newbie from Wellington New Zealand. I dabbled in photography many years ago (I used to own a Minolta x300s) until someone stole it out of my work locker about ten years ago, and I haven't picked up a camera since.

Well, late last year my industry got hit by the recession and I was made redundant. The local parallel importer had a special on the Canon Kiss X3 with Twin Lens Kit (aka Rebel Tli and 500D) so I bought it, and I became a Kit Lens Loser! I've been shooting the hell out of it for the last few months while I've been looking for work.

I'm not sure what type of photographer I am at the moment: I'm 36 and I'm taking up the hobby quite late in life. So I've been taking photos of the local sports over the weekends, as well as trying my hand at some landscapes and some of the bigger events around town.

I wanted to share some netball shots I took this weekend. I know there has been a few netball threads here, but not enough! The four teams here are

PIC (2) 65 vs Wellington East (1) 59

and

St Marys Old Girls (1) 70 vs Wellington Girls 42

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You can never have enough netball!

Three is my favourite, 2,7 & possibly 8 would be better IMHO if you had the legs and feet in the shot too.

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Welcome, great to see another Wellingtonian. My daughter is just about to start her season again so I'll be trying to improve on my pics from last year. Nothing wrong with kit lens. A good way to start while you work out the type of photos you like to take.

faces are priceless, the photography flawless

Just tell me you really don't consider 36 to be 'late in life' cause I'll hit that in September! The shots make me wish basketball were played outside and not under cycling lights

...thanks for the comments guys, appreciate it!

cptkoi , regarding loosing the feet, etc, my camera just loves to zoom in on faces, and I have been unable to control it! So I have decided that it will be inevitable that I will be missing the occasional foot and hand, so I have decided to just go with it!

Yellowbond, thanks for the welcome! I have been out and about a bit, so if you see an oversized Samoan wandering the streets late at night with a tripod and a Canon, it would probably be me!

Cosha, you make me blush. Thanks mate!

DHMN, well truth be told, I feel old! It must be one of those mid-life-crisis kind of things...didn't mean to imply you were over the hill! Netball is mostly played outside, but for the bigger games they are played indoors. I went to a recent game between the Pulse and the Mystics, and I really struggled under the lights!

Welcome to POTN! Good to see another Kiwi on here.
Great shots by the way!

Hope the job hunting is going well. It's tough times.