Tips on sports photography....
Baseball, Softball
There are also good opportunities for "safties" - decent, staple photos of a pitcher pitching, a hitter hitting... that won't win a Pulitzer, but ensure that you at least won't come back to the office empty-handed if the weather turns foul, you get called out off to a fire, the camera blows up....
Shooting at each particular field is very different for baseball. Various fence heights (Burns is quite nice - protective, yet convenient. Good to rest a lens on), different dugouts you can sit on (Shelby's is primo), even whether you're shooting into the sun from your favorite perch by first base (sorry Crest, Yay! KM Softball!).
Football
And as the season develops it gets dark sooner and sooner and the ball can as easily be right in front of you as 53 1/3 yards away on the other side of the field, mocking your flash.
Soccer
When you're shooting freelance for soccer, or maybe on an assignment to get a photo of a particular player who doesn't actually have to be competing at that moment, some of the easiest photos are before the game. You can wait the entire game for that perfect shot of the goalie in midair, stretched out horizontally begging time and space for a few more inches, another half second to stop the ball....
Or you can just shoot her practicing ad nauseum before the game.
There are also good opportunities for "safties" - decent, staple photos of a pitcher pitching, a hitter hitting... that won't win a Pulitzer, but ensure that you at least won't come back to the office empty-handed if the weather turns foul, you get called out off to a fire, the camera blows up....
Shooting at each particular field is very different for baseball. Various fence heights (Burns is quite nice - protective, yet convenient. Good to rest a lens on), different dugouts you can sit on (Shelby's is primo), even whether you're shooting into the sun from your favorite perch by first base (sorry Crest, Yay! KM Softball!).
Football
And as the season develops it gets dark sooner and sooner and the ball can as easily be right in front of you as 53 1/3 yards away on the other side of the field, mocking your flash.
Soccer
When you're shooting freelance for soccer, or maybe on an assignment to get a photo of a particular player who doesn't actually have to be competing at that moment, some of the easiest photos are before the game. You can wait the entire game for that perfect shot of the goalie in midair, stretched out horizontally begging time and space for a few more inches, another half second to stop the ball....
Or you can just shoot her practicing ad nauseum before the game.
posted by John Derrick | 9:05 PM
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