Night Football rwells style
Last year Randy Wells described a technique for mounting a flash low on a monopod and shooting night football. I shot my first night game of the season yesterday and employed this low flash with what I think are truely impressive results. Clearly visable faces in almost every shot.
Of all the sports I shoot, I'm probably least knowledgable about football. This team is particularly difficult to shoot. They are extremely good at faking where the ball is going, so I spend entirely too much time searching for it. We had about 1 1/4in of rain in the previous 24 hours. The flash was splashed once and I seemed to loose ttl communication with it until I finally got it dried off.
I used a ttl sinc cord and shot in manual at 1/250 f2.8 iso 1600 and 3200 on a d300. My Sb-800 flash was mostly shot in ttl so it would adjust output for distance.
Here are some of the results.
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Thanks for looking.
Of all the sports I shoot, I'm probably least knowledgable about football. This team is particularly difficult to shoot. They are extremely good at faking where the ball is going, so I spend entirely too much time searching for it. We had about 1 1/4in of rain in the previous 24 hours. The flash was splashed once and I seemed to loose ttl communication with it until I finally got it dried off.
I used a ttl sinc cord and shot in manual at 1/250 f2.8 iso 1600 and 3200 on a d300. My Sb-800 flash was mostly shot in ttl so it would adjust output for distance.
Here are some of the results.
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Thanks for looking.
Sean Martin
www.seanmartinphoto.com
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it's not the size of the lens that matters... It's how you focus it.
aaaaa.... who am I kidding!
whoever dies with the biggest coolest piece of glass, wins!
www.seanmartinphoto.com
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it's not the size of the lens that matters... It's how you focus it.
aaaaa.... who am I kidding!
whoever dies with the biggest coolest piece of glass, wins!
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Well done!
How far away were you?
Sidelines with a 70-200. The verticles are actually crops from horizontals.
www.seanmartinphoto.com
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it's not the size of the lens that matters... It's how you focus it.
aaaaa.... who am I kidding!
whoever dies with the biggest coolest piece of glass, wins!
I'll post some up in my own thread when I get done with wedding pictures first :ivar
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