More Football!

Yeah, it's getting repetitive. Maybe that's something that everyone should know about shooting. You really tend to shoot similar things each week. Football season is football season.

As John Madden would say, "Whap!" Because that kid just couldn't get the tackle.

Shooting football in the fall is a tough thing if you're not equipped with good lenses. You've got to have a pretty wide open shutter to keep from having to shoot low shutter speeds and you've got to have some long glass in the 300mm or higher range. It's really nice to be able to get shots across the field.


This is the other good shot I got. Originally a vertical shot. I can't really describe how to get good action shots other than really watch what's going on. I follow the ball and focus on what's going on. When there's a chance for a breakaway or tackle, shoot frames through the moment. I really like having a good sized card for this stuff. I can motor through stuff and it'll go through a good deal of images before needing to stop.

The major thing that happens quite often, as I've really stated a couple times now, is that there's usually going to be pretty low light at sporting events. The human eye doesn't need much to be able to see things clearly, but a camera isn't much the same. The film needs a good deal of light. You're going to hit some rough lighting out there and bringing flashes for indoor and a good low light telephoto lens is really going to help you. Know your equipment.

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Next post I think I'm going to try to go completely away from shooting "news" sorts of things. I'll take some macro shots and maybe a portrait if I can find a friend to be a model. Maybe I'll cover some lighting stuff? Stay tuned.