World Championship in ninepins 2014 - finals

The best ninepins players fought today for the world title. Men finals with Tamás Kiss, Kakuk Levente and women finals with Sina Beisser and Luminita Viorica Dogaru.

We saw almost another world record, but Kakus slipped in the last throw and didn't get it. It was great experience to shoot this event though the light in Vodova hall is not the best one :) Congratulation to the winners!

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World championship in ninepins - Men Round of 16

As you saw in my previous post in round of 16 Tamás Kiss with his world record eliminated Czech player Jan Kotyza. Here are few more pictures from today's world championship. I hope you like them :)

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Tamás Kiss - world record in ninepins - 734

What looked like quite calm round of 16 in today's hot weather on World Championship in ninepins in Brno, turned out to be an amazing run for Tamás Kiss for the world record. The new one is 734. Now I know why he has tattoo "Impossible is nothing" Congratulation Tamás! Unfortunately Czech representant Jan Kotyza was eliminated. :(

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Pitbulls vs Sigrs ( 12 : 34 )

It is hard to play against the team that has 13 people over 100kg in wet weather. Pitbulls lost, but played hard and hopefully next weak, they will show their strengths on dry field and  hot weather in a rematch with Sigrs.

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FMX Freestyle show 2014

There has been a great freestyle motocross show on Saturday in Brno. As it was my first time shooting such event I am not satisfied with the images too much. It could be much better. Most of these images are taken with ISO settings on 10k-12,8k and I was quite surprised that the quality is actually pretty good.

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Ninepin Bowling World Championship - building the alley

The world championship in ninepins is very close and I had the opportunity to take few shots of building the professional Funk-Spellmann ninepin alley. It is being build directly on the volleyball floor in Vodova sports hall. The alley is 17 meters wide and 35 meters long, it was delivered by 2 trucks and 10 man will build it in 6 days. Unbelievable. :)

If you wanna know more about the championship go to : www.ms2014brno.cz

Time schedule :

• 11th to 13th May 2014 - IX. World Cup of U18 (Youth Category) 
• 13th to 18th May 2014 - XVII. World Championship of U23 (Junior Category)
• 18th to 24th May 2014 - V. World Single Championship, Men and Women
• 25th May 2014 - Brno International Grand Prix for Handicapped

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Histo CUP Austria

Very interesting Austrian club championship of vintage racing cars with legendary racing cars from the second half of the 20th century. It is unbelievable how fast these old cars are. Unfortunately I was able to shoot only Classica Trophy and BMW Challenge as I run for the Pitbulls match on Sunday :)

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Pitbulls vs Dietos ( 36 : 28 )

Today's first match of the season for Pitulls was the best start in the league as they could hope for. The match was very even but Pitbulls were more hungry for the win and it was well deserved. So it looks like the training camp was not only about the "beer" :D Gratz!

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Photoshoot with Ondrej and Marta

We rent a studio last Sunday to do a quick shoot with Ondrej and Marta. We had quite fun, as for them it was first time shooting in studio and for us first time shooting a couple.

All images were taken with 5D Mark III + 24-105 F4 lens and studio elinchrom flashes or natural light. What I found quite useful was our 10" tablet with pintrest pinboards for posing. As I am more sports shooter, believe me, I need it :D You can find the pinboard here.
All post-processing was done in photoshop, lightroom and +Alien Skin Software Exposure 5
Here are few samples, big thanks to Ondrej and Marta for allowing to share the pictures here on the blog  :)

New refreshed look for my portfolio website

Because my lens is still in repair and I don't have any new shots, I decided to update my portfolio at www.petrtoman.com.

Theme was : bigger is better ! :)

It was quite fast, I changed only template at +SmugMug and did some changes to the theme like fonts, pictures, colors. The great part is that images are rotating randomly and everything took me something like 15min.

So what do you say, is it better now ? Go to www.petrtoman.com and let me know ;)