Time slips by so quickly. A couple weeks ago I had this post ready but never got around to finishing it. Well, here it is - finally.
Another Friday
evening, another football game to practice sports photography with my new
lens. The game began at 5:30 instead of
7:00 because lightning had blown out the lights on one side of the stadium
early in the week. They were fixed in time for the game but it was already
rescheduled so it could be played in daylight. What a blessing for
photographers! The greater flexibility
in settings (lower ISO, higher f stops, faster shutter speed) resulted in
better photos. My photos were much
sharper during the daylight hours than later in the game when the sun went
down.
Luck and the
better lighting enabled me to get some good shots of the action. But one thing I learned is that a great shot
of action is not always what is interesting to newspaper editors. Two points:
First, Michelle
helped me pick out some top shots to send to the Loudoun Times Mirror. She has
a better eye for which images have the most media appeal and rejected several
that I thought were good. She said the
one below was my “money shot” – the quarterback fighting for yardage as a
player tries to pull him down. Sure
enough, the Mirror used it in their online article about the game.
Second, one of my
favorites was a touchdown catch. I sent to the Alexandria Gazette Packet newspaper
along with one of the quarterback scrambling and another one. My guess was that
they might use the touchdown photo and post the others online. Wrong. They used
the quarterback scrambling in their print edition. Hmmm.
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