Sports photography is like feature photography times 100. Everything is fast, unexpected, and you really have to stay on your P's and Q's at all times.
I have always been a sports fanatic. I used to be a basketball star, run track, and there was nothing better than watching college and professional football growing up. Needless to say, when I got an assignment to cover a sports event, I was ecstatic. Finally, I could cover something I love and understand like the back of my hand. Well, the excitement did not last long. Having to get approved to take the pictures was no issue, but everything that followed was definitely a challenge. This assignment really showed me why lens choice is so important. I really feel like if I had a better lens, all of my shots would have come out better. A kit lens isn't ideal when you have to shoot a constantly moving sport from such a distance. It's not like I could get up in the players and or coaches faces, I had to shoot from the baseline in a low lighting space. ISO is a main contributor to photo noise, and in a setting like mine with the lens type I had, I had no choice but to raise the ISO. Had I made it any lower, I would have had to lower the shutter speed which would have left a lot of my images blurry. Zooming made my aperture higher, so I had to keep changing the shutter speed, and all this did was turn my stopped action shots into blurred action shots. At this point, I realized that a telephoto lens would have been ideal in this environment. While these aren't the best pictures I've ever taken, I understand what I could have done better to improve the quality of my images. If I could go back and shoot again with the right lens and the knowledge I do now, my images would be better.
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AuthorHi ! I am a student photojournalist at Wayne State University. Archives
December 2019
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