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Wow, very cool! I wish I had known you were there. I'd have tried to find you and say hi during intermission. I tried to put my camera down as much as possible and just enjoy the show, but I kept seeing things that I wanted to shoot. It was a great night...hope you had fun! Great picture, too! I can't wait to see more when you have a chance to go through them. I'm trying to figure out from the photo...I think if it showed a little more of the crowd outside of the frame to the left of your pic, I'd be able to see my seat! We were right around mid ring, about 5-10 rows up in that first area off the floor, in Section J.

70d looks pretty great! Enjoy it if you get one! One of these days I'll upgrade again. Then again, I've been saying I'll buy that 70-200 f/2.8 for about 15 years now and I still don't have it...ugh.

Thanks! As Bald Bombshell wrote, a fast shutter speed is key to stopping action and minimizing blur. Because of the low light setting at wrestling shows (and most indoor events), a good, wide f-stop / aperture is usually also needed. The set up I use is pretty inexpensive as far as decent cameras go. If I could afford fancier lenses, I could get better shots, but oh well. I shoot a Canon 10D which was a high end digital SLR about a decade ago. You can pick one up now for a couple hundred bucks. I have a 50mm f/1.4 lens for it that I use almost exclusively. Again around $200-300 new I think. With that combo, I can usually get some decent shots and every once in a while I get something that I really like! Thanks again!

Hi all! Sorry I just sort of pop in here every couple of years and then disappear again. I moved to Japan last summer and it's been great. I have been terribly busy with things here, but I met up with a friend in Kobe yesterday for the Dragon Gate show. It was a blast! Really fun stuff. I hadn't been keeping up with DG recently, but I think I'm going to have to start. Anyway, we had pretty sweet seats, so I took a bunch of pictures. Most aren't anything too crazy, but hope some of you might enjoy them.Dragon Gate - Kobe World Hall - July 21, 2013 Thanks!