Challenge: Shoot Your Sport January 12-14, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 20:16:37 #
I have always liked sports from my early child hood days and now that I am only a child at heart my playing days are long gone. The love of sport makes for a challenging hobby trying to catch good shots of sporting events with my camera. There are many good web sites that give good advice about the settings necessary capture those stop action moments. Most cameras also have a sports setting that will capture a rapid sequence of shots that you can use to improve your luck at getting at least one great shot with the action stopped right where you would like it. A tripod is not always easy to set up if you are in the stands or roaming the sidelines, but I've found a monopod a useful tool to help you hold your camera more stable while trying to capture motion and stop it.
After I volunteered for this challenge I had knee surgery and haven't been out to shoot anything new and exciting so I am delving into my archives to get us started here. Let me see some of your favorite sport shots and what challenges you had capturing them.
After I volunteered for this challenge I had knee surgery and haven't been out to shoot anything new and exciting so I am delving into my archives to get us started here. Let me see some of your favorite sport shots and what challenges you had capturing them.
One of my favorites you have probably seen before. Small dual swim meets are especially good to get good positions to shoot from. May have to squat and shoot between lane judges and time keepers to get this angle.
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When shooting indoors lighting can present a challenge. Don't forget to increase your ISO. I did...forget that is.
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Adjusting the white balance will improve color rendition under the lights. I set the ISO quite a bit higher on this one, too.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:11:08 #
lhammer43 wrote:
I have always liked sports from my early child hoo... (show quote)
Thanks for hosting, Larry. Start looks good! Not sure if I have a sport.....
Jan 11, 2017 22:33:38 #
These were all taken at the Legends of Golf near Branson, MO. I will be there again this year shooting pictures. I get to go inside the ropes and walk with the golfers.
Tom Watson
Tom Lehman
Tom Kite
Craig Statler
Jan 11, 2017 22:41:25 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
Thanks for hosting, Larry. Start looks good! Not sure if I have a sport.....
What about your snow shoe races❓❓
Jan 11, 2017 23:07:37 #
lhammer43 wrote:
What about your snow shoe races❓❓
I will come up with something :)
Jan 11, 2017 23:52:30 #
lhammer43 wrote:
I have always liked sports from my early child hoo... (show quote)
lhammer wonderful start. I enjoyed all of your photos. thanks for hosting the Challenge.
I did help my daughter on a shoot last year. I mainly did auto sports in the early 80's those of course are prints and not scanned in yet so here are my sports.
Jan 11, 2017 23:52:52 #
Great challenge for me hammer since I'm smack in the middle of high school swimming with my daughter and wrestling with my son. Here are a few from season to start with and I'll have some fresh ones tomorrow night.
going for a pin!
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My son is wearing the green
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My son (in the red) going for a cradle
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Jan 11, 2017 23:56:51 #
Mom of 2 wrote:
Great challenge for me hammer since I'm smack in the middle of high school swimming with my daughter and wrestling with my son. Here are a few from season to start with and I'll have some fresh ones tomorrow night.
Mom of 2 very nice group
Jan 11, 2017 23:59:25 #
Rufe wrote:
These were all taken at the Legends of Golf near Branson, MO. I will be there again this year shooting pictures. I get to go inside the ropes and walk with the golfers.
Rufe Wow great work well done
Jan 12, 2017 00:03:11 #
Hi everyone help me fill these holes in the February calendar.
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As a host your only job is to get the challenge, started by posting it the day (evening) before. Use this format "Challenge: Subject "month date year "
Challenges Post in the "Photo Contests, Challenges, Periodicals" in the Forum Sections
Lets fill the calendar PM me please with dates "monday -wednesday" or "thursday -saturday" you want to host.
BIG THANKS to ROADRUNNER for continuing as "FREE SUNDAY" Host
need help ask, PM me dane004
Jan 12, 2017 00:11:48 #
In 2005 we lived in a tiny town {population roughly 2500} in the middle of Kansas. This town had both advantages and disadvantages - one of the advantages being that our younger daughter {who was between 8th and 9th grades that summer} could participate in almost any activity she wanted to, because they just didn't have that many options. So she ended up playing on a girls youth softball team based in town.
That was just 11-1/2 years ago, but it seems almost like a different planet. She is the batter in this picture; today she is a twenty-something professional. We used film back then, and once you had one type of film in your camera, you were stuck with that ISO until you had exhausted the images.
To give myself any kind of chance at all, for this kind of picture I would normally arrange to have Kodak's ISO 1000 or Fuji's ISO 1600 color negative film in my camera; the night of this game, I had Ektachrome 200 loaded in my Canon EOS Elan camera; without EXIF data, the only other thing I'm certain of is that I was using my 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens. Under the cheap lights of this field, I'm guessing I didn't have near the shutter speed that would have been recommended by the 1/focal_length rule.
I scanned the slide, increasing the gain maybe one f-stop, this evening, and then did some basic editing on the image, including some cropping. If you download the image and then zoom in, you'll discover that it has a terrible grain problem, but at this point I guess it is what it is.
That was just 11-1/2 years ago, but it seems almost like a different planet. She is the batter in this picture; today she is a twenty-something professional. We used film back then, and once you had one type of film in your camera, you were stuck with that ISO until you had exhausted the images.
To give myself any kind of chance at all, for this kind of picture I would normally arrange to have Kodak's ISO 1000 or Fuji's ISO 1600 color negative film in my camera; the night of this game, I had Ektachrome 200 loaded in my Canon EOS Elan camera; without EXIF data, the only other thing I'm certain of is that I was using my 70-300mm f/4-5.6 lens. Under the cheap lights of this field, I'm guessing I didn't have near the shutter speed that would have been recommended by the 1/focal_length rule.
I scanned the slide, increasing the gain maybe one f-stop, this evening, and then did some basic editing on the image, including some cropping. If you download the image and then zoom in, you'll discover that it has a terrible grain problem, but at this point I guess it is what it is.
Jan 12, 2017 01:49:31 #
Have had an interest in shooting motor sport for quite a few years. I am a hobbyst who has a few "clients".
If you have a "client" then that will mean you need to have backup gear.
Some examples.
#1 Shooting trackside in pouring rain (my favourite conditions to shoot in). You do need wet weather protection for your gear and yourself.
Crop body and a 100-400 lens @ 400mm. 1/320 second. Monopod (which helps when using heavy lenses on long shoots).
#2 Sometimes you can get lucky, especially if you never remove your eye from the viewfinder when there are vehicles around.
The rider was OK (if they don't walk away then I do not normally publish the photographs.
A 80-400mm lens was used @ 400m at 1/500. Monopod
#3 the garages can be good places for candid portraits, although light levels may be very low.
Again @ 400mm and 1/60 and ISO maxed out (3200). Again a monopod as image stabilisation would have been on (it is not normally used for trackside shots, except when panning).
Shooting in "sports mode" (or using very high shutter speeds) will freeze all the action, however you may as well be shooting parked cars. Try to have blurred wheels at the very least.
Keep in mind motor racing can be dangerous and sometimes you will see things that you do not want to see, let alone photograph.
Feel free to ask any questions.
If you have a "client" then that will mean you need to have backup gear.
Some examples.
#1 Shooting trackside in pouring rain (my favourite conditions to shoot in). You do need wet weather protection for your gear and yourself.
Crop body and a 100-400 lens @ 400mm. 1/320 second. Monopod (which helps when using heavy lenses on long shoots).
#2 Sometimes you can get lucky, especially if you never remove your eye from the viewfinder when there are vehicles around.
The rider was OK (if they don't walk away then I do not normally publish the photographs.
A 80-400mm lens was used @ 400m at 1/500. Monopod
#3 the garages can be good places for candid portraits, although light levels may be very low.
Again @ 400mm and 1/60 and ISO maxed out (3200). Again a monopod as image stabilisation would have been on (it is not normally used for trackside shots, except when panning).
Shooting in "sports mode" (or using very high shutter speeds) will freeze all the action, however you may as well be shooting parked cars. Try to have blurred wheels at the very least.
Keep in mind motor racing can be dangerous and sometimes you will see things that you do not want to see, let alone photograph.
Feel free to ask any questions.
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