Hi,
Was in Darling Harbour looking for something intersting to test my new 80-400 VR and found Water Skiing Show
If you click to "picture properties" at the right top corner you'll see EXIF data. No tripod was used.
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Testing 80-400 VR and pics for critique
Mikhail
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I am. They're certainly much better then my previous tele - Tokina 100-300 Mikhail
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Re: Testing 80-400 VR and pics for critique
Hilop, Great to hear that you've got the 80-400VR, this event is coming every year during Sydney Festival month in January, also there're so many actions with these group in water skiing and many opportunities to shoot. I hope you'll find the 80-400VR will be your companion in the future and wherever you travel. With the 80-400VR, you can see and feel how flexi it is, cos no required tripod or monopod attached to it, your reaction will be fast and hardly to miss any shot, guess: if it attached with the monopod or tripod, how hard can you handle it with these fast action shoot. They're all tack sharp eventhought the lighting not in your favour 100% That how and why people paid for the two letter VR  Last edited by birddog114 on Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Birddog114
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Hlop
It is not easy to give critique on action photos such as these that are sharp, caught the action, good colour, etc. and bloody good. The 80-400VR in your hands has produced a series of photos to keep 
Chris PS - by the way the above is critique Chris
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Critique follows....
Firstly, the lens produces crisp, saturated images. I haven't checked all the EXIFs for shutter speeds - as I have a VR lens myself I am aware of their awesome capacity.
The pix that work better in your gallery are the ones where the water-ski action occupies most of the frame. Pic #8 is a great action shot of the skier, but would have been much better with a more blurred background or different viewpoint to eliminate the cluttered background. #7 is better in this regard, but perhaps would have benefited by being able to see more of the tow-boat and having the skier in the upper one-third of the LHS. #5 may be improved if you crop out some of the white marquee and bystanders in the background. Working in such a big arena as Darling Harbour is a challenge, even with a long telephoto, and the photographers vantage point becomes critical. Framing your image so that all of the action is not in the centre of the frame is difficult, but you must do this to have better than average work in this difficult field. Don't be discouraged - you are presenting images and asking for honest feedback, so if you continue to do this and are prepared to listen to the criticism that makes sense to you, you will undoubtedly improve. PS - I looked through the rest of your galleries, and you are obviously quite an experienced, and good, photographer. That's why I didn't waste your time complimenting you on excellent focussing and exposure - I figured you were looking for something a bit deeper. Hope I was right! 
Trevor
Thanks for your feed back guys!
cricketfan, Many special thanks for analyzing my pics. Definitely, there is no offense at all - I'm asking your opinion to improve my skills so critique helps and I'm really glad to get it About the rest of my gallery .... Actually, before I've got D70 I had Nikon F60 but I was photographing in "point'n'shoot" style and even if I was able to get few good frames it comes of far away past experience (from my childhood) when I had FED-3 Camera And BTW, I still have this camera Mikhail
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