Charity Shoot

Khaos · June 6, 2005

I was asked to donate my time by taking pics of a charity event. Since I'm always taking nature and animal pics with a few landscapes, I thought it would be good to see how event photography would be like.

Wow. I can screw things up in any possible way you can imagine.:huh

Wrong EV setting. Yep. Wrong lens for shot. Yep. Just really bad comp, triple yep.

It was a learning experience. I'm anxious to do more though. I'd really like to learn and get better at it. My hats off to those who do it for a living.

The event was a fund raiser called Pump-n-Run. You had to lift your own weight for as many reps as possible and then run a 5k race.

Here are some shots.

Comments are welcome.

The events organizer.

Dee · June 6, 2005

Geesh, quit complaining :-)
These are great!!!!

That has got to be a photographer's nightmare! No place to isolate people, lighting nightmare too.... they came out really nice, but I think from my point of view I like the start of the race the best, because you got it just as they are taking off, and that's got to be hard to do!

Did you shoot "burst" mode?

bfjr · June 6, 2005

I don't know an event photographer should depict the event so as to convey the event in way that describes it's purpose and feelings without many words, is that right?

If so, you done real good

I would have got in tighter on the start of race to remove those stinkin wires, I hate wires

, and drop the framing some to show all of the starter (ya know them tootsies

) but hey you know me, I'm sure you've read my sig :lol

Khaos · June 8, 2005

Dee wrote:

These are great!!!!

That has got to be a photographer's nightmare! No place to isolate people, lighting nightmare too.... they came out really nice, but I think from my point of view I like the start of the race the best, because you got it just as they are taking off, and that's got to be hard to do!

Did you shoot "burst" mode?

Thanks Dee.

No burst mode. I just clicked when she let the air horn blow.

Khaos · June 8, 2005

bfjr wrote:

I don't know an event photographer should depict the event so as to convey the event in way that describes it's purpose and feelings without many words, is that right?

If so, you done real good
I would have got in tighter on the start of race to remove those stinkin wires, I hate wires , and drop the framing some to show all of the starter (ya know them tootsies ) but hey you know me, I'm sure you've read my sig :lol

Thanks Ben.

I cropped out the starter's feet because the angle allowed to much empty pavement showing if I left them in. I felt the 35 was the best to use at the time. I had to choose either the full lineup with starter, or close in on part of the lineup. I couldn't do both. Of course I can always close crop in and remove the wires but that would also remove the starter.

When I crop I use either the 6x9, 5x7, or 8x10 crop sizes so it's easier when ordering prints. Occassionaly I'll use the square 8x8. To crop out the wires and leave the rest would of created an odd sized pic that would of forced major loss of the pic by cropping if a print was to be made.