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I am looking forward to the Day 2 and 3 of those regatas, spending more time on sea, learning more, getting my position right, my shots right, getting more of a feeling for those captured instants and for the few shots i might succeed in taking.

Hope you like them and please don’t hesitate, post a comment, tell me what you think, good or bad constructive criticism is good, makes me improve on every session.

Day 2

Day 2 Was probably the best day of all, wind finally making the competition faster, and i think i somehow found my mark within the shots i enjoyed taking. Some more action, closer crops and enjoying the discovery of sports photography. I really now notice the difference between a pro lense L serie from canon like the 70-200 IS USM or 100-400 IS USM and the ones we were using as “non pro”, but nontheless i am quite proud of what i could achieve with a basic tele lense.
Day 3 was more focused on close-ups of the children on the Optimist series, and a few nice interesting shots around the block, a no-wind situation during 3 hours allowed us to play around looking at young 420 sailing competitors having a chat, lying on their boats. Day 3 shots to come later on.

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After dropping myself down on a little pebble beach, slipping and getting my feet soaked, i decided to continue the shoot and brave the winter cold water. 17° Celsius up to the knees, fully clothed so got myself soaked as a reminder of the old times in Versoix when i used to fall in the water of the river.

Please feel free to post comments if you like them, and enjoy them.

Exposure were between 25 and 30 seconds, with f/22-29, ISO 100 on canon eos450D

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Obviously getting approx 5mn away with the car, i take the camera out to get my settings right before Traffic lights to notice that there was no SD Card in the camera… hmm, was i going to miss out ? nooo wayyy, back home, grab the SD Card, get back into the car and here we go for the “early morning” adventures.

Not being authorised on the main Dique of the harbour without permission from the Capitania maritima i found myself on my way to the Nassau Beach Club area and the portixol harbour where i started my 1st sunrise shots in a very long time, not totally convinced, neither by location, nor by my shots but you’ll tell me what you think hopefully as it’s only a step for improvement…

Will decide on new location for tomorrow and get ready for it. So now, enough talking, here come the shots, go ahead, please comment on them.

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After fisherspooner came an incredible DJ, don’t have the name in the head, but a few shots made my night, ended around 4 or 5Am with sounds in the head, electro beats and envy to make life the best and happy one around… that was in june… Still kicking ass with all this and now finally updating with a few shots. Will probably try to put a few more up in a while of this concert, but those are the main ones of the concert.

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So here i go, with my friend Amandine aka little penguin, we head out for the stadium of Son Moix where i was sure the event was happening… but it’s not there, it’s on the parking of the stadium… i thought, hmm, spain is weird, it’s going to be small, but hey i was totally wrong, so never have expectations, because the concert was just wicked, we were somewhat 7000 people attending, yes yes on the parking of the stadium can you believe it ?

So those are my very very first concert pictures, using the 50mm F 1.4 and the 18-55 kit lense. some i had averaged to a 4 or 5 over lightroom have been downgraded to 2, amazing how our value of quality goes down the more we shoot… it’s great. so don’t hesitate, tell me what you think

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Program of the evening :
Travis, Chris Cornell, Fink and a few other good groups i don’t remember the name for the moment, i’ll have to look into it somestage to update them.

2nd non-official program of the night, get hammered and have great fun with all of the group. Finally got to meet a few new people… great fun, nice to get to meet you Gretchen, heard loads so it’s nice to put a face on you, Bryan dude you were just the rockStar of the night Mr Jack Nicholson remake. Chris you’ve just not changed a bit, and you are just so like your dad (Shut up you’re not allowed to laugh… you’re swiss). Phil you’re such a sucker for a mediator ;p, manel you’re a great Beer splasher i think we could make a movie out of it. Kira it was really great to meet you, you’ve got a style of your own .

Now i think i’ll just let go of the text box and let you enjoy what the shots are worth… i couldn’t get anymore shots of chris cornell because i have a serious issue with Battery Packs (Yes i have now followed the Amateur Looser Photography 101 on battery recharging).

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So i found my friends, betina, susan, tanguy, bryan and a few others simply to name a few, we had good fun. Along goes the evening and here comes Jaime from www.eventone.es whom i saw in Canto Del Loco on sunday and in the center 2 days beforehand. He had a look at my shots and thought some of them were cool… so i decided to shoot for the whole evening and make it a really fun one. Finally he told me we could get some of my shots on his page, so i made loads and people asked where they could be seen. was complicated to do a photos.hippocampes.com during a night (have to make photo business cards for those events) and will give them all to him for the uploading too.

Starting a fun session of stuff now, must admit that it’s great taking concert and event shots, it’s a great fun moment to spend with people.

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