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It's been a long time since I've posted in the dorkroom. I'm (barely) maintaining my college newspaper photographer status while in grad school. So this means I mostly shoot sports where I can schedule it weeks in advance.    Also, second button focusing represent 
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So it's probably been several years since I've posted in The Dorkroom, but I've been shooting Virginia Tech football for one of the VT blogs (after shooting for the student paper while I was in school), so here's a few from last week's game that I liked:    (Guess who lost) This is the most football I've shot in years and I'm quickly realizing I need to invest in a 300 since I can no longer borrow the paper's  BobTheCow posted:A bunch of Wahoo photos Will you be joining us in Blacksburg in a few weeks? 
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Nov 4, 2014 02:56
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BobTheCow posted:Yep, I'll be there. I've been out to Tech a handful of times before, but not for football, so I'm looking forward to it. I just wish the stupid game was on Saturday instead of the day after Thanksgiving. Excellent, come say hi when you get into the work room (I just hope it's not a goddamned 11AM kickoff).
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Nov 5, 2014 00:06
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It's basketball season! No standing out in the cold in the name of sports photography (for a couple weeks oh god black friday night football game coming)     I really should invest in a 2.8.
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Nov 18, 2014 02:39
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hi liter posted:I love this. You don't need a 2.8 for this I don't think. Thanks, that one was by far my favorite.
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Nov 19, 2014 00:25
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Black Friday Night Lights, Virginia Tech vs UVA in a battle for The Commonwealth Cup. The winner improved to 6-6 and got to go to a bowl game. The loser finished 5-7 and their season was over, which made for a pretty drat chippy game (and very drunk and fantastically angry sounding crowd).             (Virginia Tech won 24-20)
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Dec 3, 2014 03:21
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BobTheCow posted:drat, I totally forgot you said you'd be there! Sorry I didn't find you to say hi. That's alright, it was a pretty drat hectic game the whole time. There's always basketball season!
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Dec 5, 2014 02:41
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Bowl season and the start of basketball conference play:     
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Jan 12, 2015 04:51
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hi liter posted:Thanks. Do y'all general shoot in landscape or portrait when doing sports? I shoot for online only now, so I tend to keep it landscape lately. However way way more important is getting a face and the ball, you can always crop later. Your photos are great, especially for the gear you had. Watch out for those severed limbs and heads on the sides of your frames though 
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Jan 21, 2015 06:31
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^^^^^ They installed brand new LED lighting in the basketball arena here last year and the ability to pick a white balance and not have three colors come out of it in each frame is simply mindboggling. A few things from the past month:       Finally got that first ACC win  And now for something completely different. The wrestling team is having a one-off series of matches inside a brand new performing arts building on campus instead of the usual arena (the basketball arena), which is so very weird and fun to shoot in. Almost black backgrounds from certain angles makes it like a photoshoot at times.   
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Feb 4, 2015 06:06
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BobTheCow posted:I spent part of my weekend in Greensboro for the ACC tournament, until UVA had to go and stink up the place and loose to UNC, so I came home a day early. This is all great. Greensboro was probably the best arena I've ever shot in, it's a shame that they're moving the tournament out of there for a while. At least DC is easy for me to get to. A smattering of Buzzketball, cheerleaders, and a bonus wrestling shot from the past couple months. Also a fellow local photographer friend is maybe going to be selling his 70-200 2.8, so the days of shooting indoors with my ye olde f/4 are probably over next season    
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Mar 15, 2015 04:12
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Spring football practice and the spring game over the past month or so...      And always remember the fan shots: 
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May 5, 2015 00:27
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Bang3r posted:
This is incredible.
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Jul 29, 2015 13:10
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DJExile posted:hey guys i got a rad new sports lens So f/8 or bust, right?
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Aug 4, 2015 14:18
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Fall football practice is here, football season is coming     
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Aug 8, 2015 19:10
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You could also try the team booster's club, they usually love to have someone take pictures of their kids playing and probably have some pull with the school administrators. Good luck shooting on those dark as gently caress fields
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Aug 19, 2015 06:57
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dakana posted:
I really like this.
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Aug 28, 2015 02:44
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This is an awesome shot. 800peepee51doodoo posted:I talked my way into shooting a lot of college sports this coming school year. I started out with a football game this weekend and its ... a lot different than basketball! I think I got some decent shots but there is some definite room for improvement. You guys got any good tips for handegg? Specifically, is there a way to predict a pass receiver? I could not get a shot of a pass completion to save my life and 95% of the time I was on the completely wrong dude anyway. Almost everything I got was running plays. Is it just an experience thing or is there some trick or rule of thumb? Also, how do you normally set up your camera for exposure during day games? With basketball/hockey/etc you can set it in manual and forget it. Here I was going with Av at -2/3 stops to avoid blowing out the white jerseys but then poo poo was all hosed because it turns out the players all wear portable caves on their heads and I had to slam the exposure and shadow sliders in post just to see their faces. poo poo got extra hosed when the sun started to go down and half the field was in shadow and the rest in bright sun. This is a good start if it was your first football game. For passing plays, you need to anticipate the play if you can. If it's an obvious passing down, don't try to follow the ball from the quarterback, watch the receivers make their runs down field and get your camera up fast enough once the ball starts flying and you can see where it's going. Following a pass from the quarterback all the way to the receiver is very difficult unless it's a long pass that hangs up there. If you really want to get a photo of a specific receiver making a catch, you may just have to commit to only following him until it happens and eschew photographing other plays. (And sometimes you just need some luck.) I usually set my exposure -2/3rds off the grass, depending on if the team I'm photographing is wearing dark or white uniforms. If the shadows start creeping in I'll switch to Av or auto-ISO if it's really bad. Never seen someone use a polarizing filter for sports. Been a while since I posted, football season started here in the mountains (and there's an 80% chance of rain this Saturday       
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Sep 29, 2015 03:43
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Anyone shooting field sports with a 7DmkII? I need a second body and I'm wondering which way to go between a used 1DmkIII or a 7DmkII to complement my 1DmkIV. The 1D will always be a more rugged camera, but the 7D2 is just so much newer that if I had to choose I'd probably get the 7D2. A used 1DmkIII is a good bit cheaper than a new 7D2 though. The 1.6x crop on the 7D is also nice to get a little more reach, depending on the sport. I shoot with a 1Dmkiii and a 7D (classic) and they both have their plus and minuses.
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Oct 7, 2015 02:36
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Soulex posted:Yeah. I saw a mom with something nice. I forget what it was exactly, something canon and not entry level. But she started taking pictures with the pop up flash shortly after we talked. I was disgusted. A lot of high school football teams have booster clubs that would probably love to have some photos of their kids in games. A friend of mine makes pretty good money per game shooting for a local one. Friday nights are all booked up for you, though.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:00
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It'd be a per-arena or per team (more likely) and probably per game credential. Even the big boys (Getty, USA Today, etc...) need to get approved, although it's obviously easier for them. E: this is more for professional/big time college sports levels, high school football-ish levels might just require an email and a thumbs up from whoever is in charge. Frinkahedron fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Oct 23, 2015 03:53
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Second half of the football season, with bonus pre-conference play basketball!         
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Dec 22, 2015 01:47
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red19fire posted:Print your work, guys. This is 
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Dec 23, 2015 05:16
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It's nice to photograph a basketball win, it's even nicer to photograph an upset of #4 UVA  
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Jan 5, 2016 08:46
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dakana posted:I'm still using the Yongnuo RF-602 system This is super useful info and I'm probably going to pick a set up, thanks! (How has the range been for you? Could I trigger this from hundreds of feet if I wanted?)
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Jan 29, 2016 15:48
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azathosk posted:Close, but no cigar. House strobes
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Jan 30, 2016 00:06
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DJExile posted:You're going to throw a lot of pictures out here, don't let that get you down. Can't say this enough. I'm averaging about 1200-1400 shots per basketball game. I usually get a gallery of about 25 images I like from a storytelling perspective. Out of those, maybe 1 or 2 I'd push to get printed (in my newspaper days). I might get one or two photos a season that I'd like printed and framed on my wall. There's a lot of rejects. The worst is when you get that perfect celebration photo that you can't use for poo poo because the team ended up losing 
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Feb 1, 2016 06:14
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Helen Highwater posted:Are you shooting in RAW (always be shooting in RAW)? 11Gb is going to fill up quite quickly when you are shooting bursts over the course of a day. I used to think a 64Gb card was fine until the time I was frantically deleting images so I'd have enough space to shoot the last few exhibitors at an air show a while back. Since then I carry two spare 64Gb cards in my bag, even if I'm just out for a walk. I never shoot RAW in sports because it's so much slower to get stuff out on deadline, but if I had a runner bringing/taking memory cards during an event out like the big sports illustrated guys have at something like the olympics, I probably would.
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Feb 2, 2016 00:51
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Some more shootyhoops:    Yeah I know the last one missed focus. No I don't care 
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Feb 8, 2016 13:54
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/SportSJA/status/701843483590533120/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw  Makes this week's look like flowers:  With hot bonus Buzz action:  And finally, I have no idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
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Feb 23, 2016 05:11
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huhu posted:
I'd get this mounted and framed, great shot.
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Apr 13, 2016 02:53
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EL BROMANCE posted:Is there a go to guide for policies on cameras/lenses that covers the different arenas? I'm going to Panthers/Islanders next week at BB&T and its really vague on the website. Someone posted on a Flickr thread that they have a liberal policy and anything under 12" is fine for hockey, but that was 8 years ago. I have 100 section seats, 3rd row. I think my 50-150 would break that rule but I'll measure it, but I'd like to take my 18-35 for some general stuff anyway. Just a case of email the venue and hope for a clearer answer? Most places have a no telephoto policy, but enforcement is not consistent at all, even between different gates at the same event. Easiest thing to do is just go ahead and try at a couple gates if you have easy access to your car to stow it if you get turned away.
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Apr 16, 2016 02:40
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dakana posted:
Man am I a huge sucker for shots like this and this fits my bill perfectly.
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Apr 22, 2016 02:20
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Football briefly returned yesterday:
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Apr 24, 2016 18:37
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Bang3r posted:It's been a while. This is easily my favorite one out of this set.
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Jul 25, 2017 13:01
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Almost all of what I would consider my "best" sports photos were taken not during the run of play, but a celebration or defeat after. Emotions count. That said, capturing a spectacular moment could easily be considered up there too, but I feel like it's harder to hit that level without the emotional element.
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Aug 5, 2017 18:52
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DJExile posted:
poo poo and I haven't posted in here all season  I should change that soon.
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Oct 23, 2017 05:02
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DJExile posted:
I once calculated that my hit rate (photos that I deem worthy of at least a quick crop/edit/caption) is historically under 3%, and I probably average around 2000 photos a football game.
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Oct 24, 2017 03:15
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It was rainy last night.  
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Oct 29, 2017 23:27
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DJExile posted:a spectacular and heartbreaking picture by Marco Bertorello of Italian goalkeeping legend Gianluigi Buffon as Sweden knocked Italy out of attending the world cup for the first time since 1958. goddamn that’s good
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