Pro Wrestling

SnapLocally

Check'em out- 24 shots in all: http://snaplocally.com/71710

Thanks for looking.

Gary Peterson Photography

SnapLocally wrote: »

Check'em out- 24 shots in all: http://snaplocally.com/71710

Thanks for looking.

#5 down is bad a**. Cool capture.

SnapLocally

Thanks Gary.

SweetScenePhoto

Did you use a flash for all your shots - or touchup with darkening afterwards?

I just photographed a few aerobics classes at a local gym and they had the lights off for two of them - with my large flash (Sigma EF-530 DG Super) and Gary Fong (knock-off) Inverted Dome - I got some pretty good action ones. The look just like yours - where the subject is lit, but the background is pretty dark. I like that style, and like your stuff - just wondering what else you did and what you used.

Thanks so much!
~Jasa

SnapLocally

Thank you.

To be honest, the way I shoot wrestling is quite a departure from how I cover virtually everything else. As a Combat Sports photographer I don't use any flash or strobes when I shoot fights, and I'd even extend the same courtesy to the wrestlers, but the fact is that the venue I shoot in is EXTREMELY dark, and without the benefit of flash I wouldn't be getting paid. That said, I use a 430EX II at ISO 800, no diffuser. From my understanding the diffuser would cause the flash to work even harder, negating (in part) the purpose it was intended for in the first place. To make the flash less intense I use a higher ISO, and of course I make sure the workers I've never worked with know that part of my job is to blind them.

SweetScenePhoto

yeah, I noticed that with my ISO at 800 - using the Sigma flash (equivalent to Canon 530) pointed at ceiling with diffuser - that there was a LOT of static. I'm trying to get a crisp action shot, with no static - and they want large, poster-size prints. Here, please check it out, if you have time: http://sweetscene.smugmug.com/Sports/SH

I read that others use a lower ISO for action shots... I'm still learning. When I photographed an indoor basketball game, I used ISO 800 - 50mm f2.8 lens - at f2.8 - and no flash (not allowed) - and shots came out great with NO static.
thanks for sharing and for your advice. I really do appreciate it! I read books and read this forum almost everyday. And, it seems everyone does it just a little different than the next. I LIKE that, but I'm still trying to find what works best for me.

thanks, again!

attorneyjay

Very impressive!