Photography and football May 5, 2009
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Misc. Stuff, Sports.Tags: Cougars, football, Gallery, photography
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I finally had some time to go to a football game and take som pictures. So equipped with my EOS 40D I went and saw the USG Cougars vs. Copenhagen Towers II. Even though the Cougars lost it was a success for me, because I got some decent photos and thats the first step to improving my technique. The photos can be found in my photo gallery.
I have also aquired a Canon 50mm F1.4 lens, and look forward to go shooting portraits with that one.
Thats all for now.
Photography – Equipment and Improvement December 8, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Misc. Stuff, Sports.Tags: learning photography, photo equipment, photography
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About two months ago, I finally purchased a digital SLR. I have been wanting one for the last 5 years, and now I had the time and money.
I chose to buy the Canon EOS 40D with the 17-85mm kit lens. I chose the 40D, because it dropped a little in price with the release of the EOS 50D, I think the 40D is adequate in functionallity to my skill level and last, it has a high framerate in continueos shooting, and I would like to do sports photography.
Over these past months I have taken a lot of photos, to improve by the learning by doing method. While kit lens is adequate for outdoor scenary photos and actually pretty good in outdoor sports photos, it doesn’t cut the job for me when it comes to full or close-up portraits indoors. Another reason for this is that I only have the built in flash to use with it. This has become a problem for me, because where I originally thought I would do a lot of outdoor photography and only a limited amount of portraits, I have now found out, that i also like doing portraits, both indoor and outdoor.
So on my xmas wishlist I have an external flash, a f/1.4 50mm lens and some books on portrait photography. So if you have any ideas on good portrait techniques, books or anything other, please write.
If you want to see some of my sports photography, I took some decent photos of Copenhagen Cougars flag football team that are on the Copenhagen Cougars website.
FORE! August 4, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Sports.Tags: Golf
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After lots of practicing in Tiger Woods PGA 2008 on the Wii last week, I had to test my real game yesterday. But fortunate as I am, our streak of real good weather ended yesterday morning, so it was chilly and very windy on the course. Besides that I got stuck in traffic on my way to the golf course, so we tee’d up rigth away with no warm up on the range.
Well, enough with the excuses, compared to the last couple of games, I played a terrible round yesterday, I used 6 shots more on nine holes. Every single shot from the tee or fairway was either sliced big time, or hit high on the ball, so it was short and flat. But after the round I still managed to be satisfied, because it would have been a lot worse if it wasn’t for my shortgame and putting. I have made some huge improvements in those parts of the game, which allowed me a lot of rescues. So when I get within the range of a PW or closer to the green, I am very confident, and with that part of my game working so well, I is only a question of hours on the driving range before my handicap starts dropping big time.
Unfortunately my conclusion must be, that the Wii hasn’t really improved my game, and I will look for another simulator, to help me improve my game during winter.
Wii – I’m improving my game July 29, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Sports.Tags: Golf, Wii, Wii sports
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I play golf, I’m lousy at it, but I play golf. The main reason to why I haven’t really improved, a least I think so, is that I only play 3-5 times a year. The last couple of years I have played to a handicap around 48, which I’m not entirely satisfied with.
But in november 2007 we got a Nintendo Wii at work, so people can play in their lunchbreak and after work. I have played a lot of golf on the Wii, and on the Wii like in real life, I have a really bad slice. So game after game on the Wii, during the winter, I have tried to correct this slice, and I have succeded. So a little month a go, when I was out playing my first real game of golf this year, to my big surprice, I did in real life as I did on the Wii, and my slice was almost gone. Now I have played a couple of more games, and each time to a handicap around 40 and almost without slicing. With this in mind, I have played a lot of Golf on the Wii for the last week, to prepare for the next game of real golf, which will be on sunday. This time I have focused on controlling my swing speed, to be more persistent. Hopefully It pays off.
I just thought I would share this mini epiphany of mine, and I will report on the result of the next game.
New adventures in physical exercise July 9, 2008
Posted by bohenriksen77 in Sports.Tags: physical exercise, Squash, squash beginners advice
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Being a sportsnut, I enjoy trying sports that I haven’t tried before, so a week ago I tried Squash for the first time. Squash is very similar to Racquetball. After an hour of playing, with a friend who like me had not tried it before, we came to the conclusion that it was a fun, physical form of exercise. In that first hour we worked up a good sweat, and burned a lot of calories, and that was just with a beginners ball, more on the difference between balltypes later. So after this initial adventure into the world of Squash, my friend and I decided we would play more, so we went out and bought racquets and balls, balls for experienced players.
So this morning we were going to play squash for the second time, this time with our own racquets and balls. During the warmup we quickly found out that these new balls bounced less than the beginners ball we first played. This means that you have to hit the ball harder, to get it to bounce back from the walls. And as we soon found out, when the ball doesn’t bounce far back, you will have to run more. During this second our of play, we both got the grasp of the game and the new ball more and more, and our rallies became longer, sometimes up to almost 20 strokes. This drastically increased the amount of physacal exercise of the game, but at the same time also increased the fun of the game. So more fun and better exercise, its a win-win situation.
So to anyone considering trying a new sport, I can higly recommend squash. I know I will be playing it a lot more. I will even give you two pieces of advice for beginners. First, use a pair og tennis, badminton or handball shoes, do not use a pair of running shoes, you risk ruining the shoes and tearing your feet apart. Second, do not try making fancy strokes against the back wall, unless you got the skills, you risk hitting yourself in the eye, which is really unpleasent. Believe me, I’ve tried 
