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I was asked to shoot a Kick box event held in Pischelsdorf Austria on 21st March. Sure enough, you don’t have to ask me twice to do stuff like that so I went there.

Pishelsdorf is about 25-30km out of Graz in direction to Vienna. We arrived at the scene at about 14:00 becouse my girlfriend was doing the styling of the performers, so we had to be there a bit early. There were 8 fights and 4 demos between the fights. All in all, the fights were interesting and i’ve seen some KO’s etc. It has been a pretty long day and overall I’ve shot about 735 photos.

I have to say, that working in such conditions with my Nikon D80 is not easy , the high ISO i had to use to get over the 1/250 shutter speed was a challenge of it’s own. I used a Nikkor 12-24mm f4 lens which worked great, had enough zoom and the ultra wide angle at 12mm was handy. Overall I’m pretty pleased with the results, even tho I’m sure the pictures would be WAY better if i had a camera that produces better quality images at high ISO.

I am really starting to think to upgrade to D300 or even D700… Any ideas where to get the money for it? Have i said it yet? I accept donations .

Here’s a few shots…

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