4 posts tagged “sports photography”

It has been about a week since my last post and I feel guilty, but I've been pretty busy with work and shooting.

Where to begin.....  Kris and I shot Danny flying his RC chopper as the sun set. The light was great and we all had a good time.  For this shot, I set up an SB-800 on a light stand and shot towards the sun .

Exposure info: Nikon D200, 12-24mm, 1/250, F/5, ISO 100 - SB800 set to kill

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
   A day or two after the RC chopper shoot, Fielding and I shot a small boxing tourney with our friend Amy (photo editor for the Sagebrush, a UNR paper).

    I decided to play around with some more creative techniques during the shoot (slower shutter speeds, slow sync stuff, etc) and I got some pretty decent shots. This was my favorite of the night.

Specs:Nikon D200
1/50, F/4 @ ISO 400, on camera flash @ around 1/16

After the boxing tourney, I realized that I had lost one of my 2GB CF cards with a football game that Fielding and I had shot on it :(

A few days later, Lenae (from work) and my buddy Chadwick joined me in shooting at the flats. It was a good time, we got some light painting in and ran into some crazy rednecks with beer and guns! Here are a couple from the night:

Tuesday night, my friend Mike (www.everythingtonothing.com) invited us (Fielding, Chadwick and I) to shoot around and help him make a music video for the band PushBox. I had a blast and got a ton of excellent quality photos. The video will probably be great. I filled up a 4 gig card in a few hours. Later on, I found the 2GB card that I had previously lost!

Finally, on Thursday, Kris, Chadwick, Fielding and I all drug our asses out of bed at 3:20am to shoot the sunrise at Tahoe (in emerald bay) . Well, technically fielding hadn't really gone to bed yet, but we won't get into that. Anyways, we misjudged the sunrise time and decided we wouldn't make it to the bay before the sun rose, therefore we settled on Sand Harbor instead.

I didn't really get anything good. There was trash all over the beach and I was pretty dissapointed about missing Emerald Bay so I wasn't really into it. I also forgot that my camera was set to ISO 800 from the Pushbox shoot so I had some noise in my photos (nothing that noise ninja can't fix). This was the only decent shot from the morning:

So thats it. A busy week all compressed into one post. Comments welcome on the photos...

Here are a few more cycling shots from Tuesday. This time I played around with more slow sync flash, comments welcome. Be sure to click the images to see the larger versions (they look much better and not "oversharpened" in full size).

After an unusually long day at work, Fielding and I met up with another local photographer to shoot a bike racing event. It was a good time, although the event didn't last very long.

Here are a few of mine from the 3-4 races we were able to shoot:

I used a slow sync flash and panning for the above shot (a method I'd love to perfect).

The light was beginning to look very nice just after that shot. Unfortunately, it was the last race.

    Here is another attempt at some sports photography. This time Fielding and I shot the  2007 National Collegiate Boxing Championships. Thanks to Fielding's media passes, we were not only able to get in for free, but we got to sit in the media chairs (touching the ring). Many of these photos were taken reaching under the ropes.

    We were so close in fact that one of the boxers was knocked out of the ring and landed ON TOP of us! Aside from having to dodge boxers, the light posed the biggest problem: It was very dark and forced me to shoot at ISO 640-800ish even with a very bright 50mm f/1.4. Luckily noise ninja was able to get rid of a considerable amount of noise.

    Speaking of noise ninja, I really need to make my own profiles for raw. The program seems to do a much better job using exif profiles as opposed to auto profiling each photo.