Night Field Hockey
Dagnabit! The high school at which I'm considered the girls' sports' unofficial mascot, has just installed an artificial turf surface on the stadium field. The field hockey folks are ecstatic (as they should be) but it means the games are now going to be played in the stadium at night under crappy lights instead of daytime on the old Bermuda-grass hockey pitch. Anyway, I got another cool goalkeeper shot last night that I wanted to share with y'all. This youngster is good. C&C welcome.
John :
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.
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Phil
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Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Guess I havn't been keeping up enough. When did you get the D3s?
Still haven't shot any sports with mine yet
About five hours before I took that shot!
Thanks Randy. You have to get back to shooting sports . . . if only for fun.
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.
The other bad thing about turf pitches, which you may already know, are the heat waves that come off of them during a hot day. It makes any shot more than a dozen meters away look awful. I absolutely hate turf fields.
So, I printed up an 8x10 and before Thursday night's game, presented it to the goalkeeper. She broke down screaming and crying. Her teammates came over and started jumping up and down and squealing like it was a Justin Bieber meet-and-greet. Ah . . . high school girls.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
One of my favorite moments along these lines came last spring, when I attended a thank-you dinner for donors to my kids' school. It was at the house of a *very* wealthy family, and the daughter was on the school soccer team. When her parents learned that I was the photographer who shot all their games, they showed me a hallway in the house in which they had hung half a dozen of my shots, all beautifully printed, matted and framed. Looked better than anything I had on my walls!
What an honor!!
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Awesome.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Be aware that a states organization that governs eligibility might have rules in regards to giving something of value to students. If you sell photos and give one to a student it could affect their eligibility.
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
Nope, I have researched this a bit. My 15 year old daughter is already getting recruited for college soccer (and she's sponsored!) so I have looked into the NCAA rules. There might be a problem if the college gave her free photos, but not photos taken by a parent or bystander. But I do need to be careful of some of the collegiate work I occasionally do--like the Stanford soccer team--since there is something of a conflict. However, Stanford is the one who is at risk, not my daughter so much.
For my part, I never sell high school sports photos; I give them away, both to families at our school and the opposing teams' families.
Good thing those people probably don't assign any value to photographs.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.