B&W: Oakland Raiderettes

I've been playing with some black and white cheerleader pictures I have taken throughout the football season. These were all shot with the 300 f/2.8 IS on my 7D, handheld at f/4.5. I added some grain in LR3 to make it look more like film Comments and criticisms appreciated.

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no 1 is my fav....love the emotions and expression.....you capture the right enviorment....good job

+1 Great candid, i love the pp nice "old school" look,
No 2, i find my eye drawn to the fence post to the right
3, good but not as good as 1

what the heck, cheerleaders

You can't take a bad shot of a cheerleader...but I like the "action" shots best.

49er fan myself but I'll comment anyway. Nice shots number 1 has my vote. Also agreed you can't take a bad shot of a cheerleader haha.

sermed wrote in post #11650371
no 1 is my fav....love the emotions and expression.....you capture the right enviorment....good job

Thanks!

Aardvark101 wrote in post #11651200
+1 Great candid, i love the pp nice "old school" look,
No 2, i find my eye drawn to the fence post to the right
3, good but not as good as 1

what the heck, cheerleaders

How can your eye see that pole? I'll see what I can do to make it less obtrusive. Thanks for the input.

outback wrote in post #11652856
You can't take a bad shot of a cheerleader...but I like the "action" shots best.

I have more pictures of cheerleaders than I do game action

Freedom211 wrote in post #11655820
49er fan myself but I'll comment anyway. Nice shots number 1 has my vote. Also agreed you can't take a bad shot of a cheerleader haha.

Unfortunately I never had an assignment for the niners. I've heard only good things about those ladies

Cool to see these. My sister was a Raiderette for 5 yrs. .. 4 in Oakland & the 1st yr in LA. (if that lets you know how long ago that was) .. back in the days of Ted Hendrix, John Matuzak, etc

A few weeks ago I was given a slide/negative scanner.. and though the copies are soft, I scanned a few old transparencies.

Playm wrote in post #11661675
Cool to see these. My sister was a Raiderette for 5 yrs. .. 4 in Oakland & the 1st yr in LA. (if that lets you know how long ago that was) .. back in the days of Ted Hendrix, John Matuzak, etc

A few weeks ago I was given a slide/negative scanner.. and though the copies are soft, I scanned a few old transparencies.

How COOL is that?! The outfits are the same... except now they're more "cheeky" That's awesome though. Thanks for sharing. If you scan more, feel free to post them.

*phew*.. I didn't mean to overstep by posting these.. came back to delete them... glad they're ok with you.
It's interesting to see the changes in the uniforms, isn't it. It looks like, in your pix, that they've reduced the size of the pompoms. (btw, I neglected to mention that I really like your images!)

The Raiderettes just had a big reunion.. a month or so ago. Did you go take photos?
I know my sister has some snapshots on facebook. .. all of the older Raiderettes still look great.