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Grappling Tournament
I shot another grappling event last weekend. Pretty cool sport to watch and one I am thinking of trying myself. Grappling is mostly Jiu Jitsu. But it can incorporate many styles or not styles of various other martial arts or wrestling. There is no striking, no points and not very many rules. This event was not timed either. Basically you wrestle someone until they give up/ tap out. One of the matches lasted over an hour. Imagine wrestling someone for 1 hour with no breaks!
So besides being a challenging sport to do, it is a very challenging sport to shoot. It is all ambient light, no flashes allowed. At this location there were up to 8 matches going on at once. It was also in a gymnasium with those horrible gym lights above and some windows on the sides that caused quite a few issues.
#1 Submission by sweat drips......
#2 Cute!
#3 The guy on the bottom is winning at this point.
#4 Lots of choking going on.
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#6
#7
So besides being a challenging sport to do, it is a very challenging sport to shoot. It is all ambient light, no flashes allowed. At this location there were up to 8 matches going on at once. It was also in a gymnasium with those horrible gym lights above and some windows on the sides that caused quite a few issues.
#1 Submission by sweat drips......
#2 Cute!
#3 The guy on the bottom is winning at this point.
#4 Lots of choking going on.
#5
#6
#7
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It does look fun. I have been to another tournament and a seminar doing photos. I am going down to the gym I did the seminar photos for and trying it next week. I have never done anything like it before other then some wrestling in JR high. Not sure if my back and neck can take it. But it might help with it too. I got pretty torqued racing downhill bikes a few years ago. I will just have to try and see.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
get yourself a DR-5 right angle view finder.
I was thinking one could be cool for this. At least to use for part of a day shooting. It really kicks the crap out of you being on the ground all day in the same crouched position. This event I shot for about 8 hrs. I did really good though. I only took about 3500 photos.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Well, it is great for other things too.
Macro, other extreme angles, and etc...
It was damn dark in there. 1/200 at 12,800?? Dark stuff.
Fred, I see that thing has a 2x mode too. That is cool and would help a ton for macro focus. I wish for action there was a view finder that gave a slightly smaller view. Maybe 80 or 90% instead of 100%. It would help me framing constantly. Sometimes I feel like I look around my viewfinder. But I wear glasses too. If I don't pay attention I find I will pull the frame one way or another.
Thanks man!