Mini-Challenge #187 - Sports FACT
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Firstly, thank you Alan for selecting my photo in the Plants challenge. There were many excellent images in that well run challenge.
I am going to do something a little different this challenge - the 6th anniversary of the MINI Challenge. It will be a about sports and I will look for some specifics.
Like Alan, I went back to look at previous mini challenges to see if sports was covered. I did find a few minis that covered sports, but this will be a little different.
While sports is not where I concentrate my photography, I do enjoy taking sports photos.
This one will cover sports with a little twist. This is something I learned from a Dgrin post years ago.
FACT - Face, Action, Contact, Toy, - the four components of a great sports photo. Get all four in one sports photo in my limited experience is very unusual, two or three is more common.
Face - obvious - include the players or players' face(s) in the shot.
Action - captured or blurred to show movement.
Contact - with another player; bat hitting ball; grazing the top of a hurdle and more. Contacting the ground while running would likely not count - I suppose there could be a situation where it would.
Toy - ball; bat; hockey stick; football; baseball and more. (People often call this fourth item "ball", but I like the word TOY because it makes the acronym easy to remember.)
So, please submit images from any sport level from grade school to professional. Try to find an image with as many FACT components.
I will not be exclusively looking for FACT components. I will also be looking at: focus, DOF, lighting, color, storytelling, composition and impact.
And according to the guidelines for mini challenges, please give each image a title.
The closing date is just 3 weeks from today - closing 9pm EST May 25th.
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and YOU POST 1-3 IMAGES. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
4 Components - Face, Action, Contact (player blocking) and Toy (football)
3 Components - Faces, Action, NO Contact and Toy (baton)
3 Components - Face, Action, NO Contact and Toy (rod and reel)
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I am going to do something a little different this challenge - the 6th anniversary of the MINI Challenge. It will be a about sports and I will look for some specifics.
Like Alan, I went back to look at previous mini challenges to see if sports was covered. I did find a few minis that covered sports, but this will be a little different.
While sports is not where I concentrate my photography, I do enjoy taking sports photos.
This one will cover sports with a little twist. This is something I learned from a Dgrin post years ago.
FACT - Face, Action, Contact, Toy, - the four components of a great sports photo. Get all four in one sports photo in my limited experience is very unusual, two or three is more common.
Face - obvious - include the players or players' face(s) in the shot.
Action - captured or blurred to show movement.
Contact - with another player; bat hitting ball; grazing the top of a hurdle and more. Contacting the ground while running would likely not count - I suppose there could be a situation where it would.
Toy - ball; bat; hockey stick; football; baseball and more. (People often call this fourth item "ball", but I like the word TOY because it makes the acronym easy to remember.)
So, please submit images from any sport level from grade school to professional. Try to find an image with as many FACT components.
I will not be exclusively looking for FACT components. I will also be looking at: focus, DOF, lighting, color, storytelling, composition and impact.
And according to the guidelines for mini challenges, please give each image a title.
The closing date is just 3 weeks from today - closing 9pm EST May 25th.
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and YOU POST 1-3 IMAGES. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
4 Components - Face, Action, Contact (player blocking) and Toy (football)
3 Components - Faces, Action, NO Contact and Toy (baton)
3 Components - Face, Action, NO Contact and Toy (rod and reel)
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I am happy that a photographer has kicked it off and I got a good laugh out of it. Thanks.
Let me add - Face - check, Action - check, Contact - nope; Toy - maybe the fish. Three out of four is very good.
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
After thinking about for a bit, I don't see why not. Especially considering we could have a photographer submit an image of a dog race. My intent though was images of people engaged in a sport.
Take care,
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
Amgen Tour Lead group - one of the King of the Mountain climbs near Mariposa, Ca : Face, Action (sort of), no contact, toy (bikes)
Rafting on the American River outside of Auburn, Ca. Seven sisters taking their raft to the put-in spot. Face, Action (walking or lugging?), no contact, Toy (raft or paddles)
Not sure if ballooning is a sport (some think it is), but couldn't resist posting this silly one. Face (lots of it), no action, contact with other balloons, toy (balloon, basket, or the pilot).
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An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
THere IS a person in there - it is just that most of the photos I have of jumping horses were either taken with a cheap point and shoot camera or the rider's face is hidden in the mane or on the other side of the horse's neck. Except this one where the rider's back is to you (I can't find the original of this which was in color)
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This is the only one I have that remotely qualifies. It has faces, action and toys (ball) but not contact. (And my granddaughter was the goal keeper so she's not even in this one.) I do have one that illustrates contact (girl writhing on the ground with two referees and two teemates) but in that case there's no action and no toys. This is the only one of these that was shot originally with a digital camera
Title - Girls Chasing a Goal
Most of my photos are of horse sports or sailing. Sailing as a rule when you see the action you can't see people's faces very well, and Contact is to be avoided.
This one has Face, Action and Toys - he has contact with the winch, but not with another person. It is my husband winching up a sail on a charter boat (captain in the back) taken from the cockpit in 1997 with a point and shoot film camera
Title - Sailing CSY Whisper in the Virgin Islands
And I think I will include this one - it has action and toys (if you count the horse as a toy) and a face if you count the horse's face, but hopefully not so much contact. This was taken at the Essex 3 day event with a film camera (I think a Canon) in 1982. This is not my daughter or her pony.
Title - Cresting Fence #8A Essex 3 Day Event
Alan, these challenges are for fun and experience as you know. So, please enter.
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Phil
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Thanks!
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Here are three:
#1: Ouch!
This was at Michigan State vs Villanova, and when I read the FACT description about "Face" and "Contact" I remembered this shot. The ball is there as well (plus gloves and such), but the "Contact" here is not about the ball.
Taken with a D4 , 200-400/F4 @ F4 @ 200mm, 1/3200th ISO 640, as the runner arrived at first, and was a bit unhappy the ball was there, and I guess was trying to force a dropped ball. The lady had an ice pack on her face the rest of the afternoon but was playing the next day. Surprisingly there was no penalty or call for the runner (nor did she apologize or seem interested); I thought she should have been ejected.
#2: Surrounded, and coming up from below
This was FGCU vs Iona in December 2013, and Bret Comer (player in white) not only had some of the more athletic moves, his face was always expressive, so the topic reminded me of this one also. This was shot just before he let go with an underhanded shot past those reaching arms that amazingly went in off the backboard.
Shot with a D4, 85/1.4 @ F2, ISO 2500, 1/800th.
#3: Stretch!
I'm not a huge fan of tennis shots as there's rarely conflict in them, but the rules here were that FACT's "C" was Contact not Conflict, so here goes. This was FGCU vs. Albany in March 2014. The player is Candela Munoz, who was just named to her A-Sun all tournament team. The school uses a very thing 400x1000 format for their web site, so I am always looking for long, thin shots, and this fit right in.
Shot with a D4 and 400/2.8 @ F2.8, ISO 110 and 1/2000th second.
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I dare say that there are many things that could be said, but .....
Thanks for posting!
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Phil
Three times baseball of our local team (in Belgium). "Face" is the main subject here.
1. Surprised
2. The tongue
3. Contact
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This one may only qualify with the face aspect, but the look my son had after he got hit in the face was priceless
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#1 Eyes Ahead
This one was captured at 1/4000 so the motion of the bending pole is stopped.
#2 Out of My Way
#3 Pole in Motion
Shot at 1/1250 so there is motion in the pole
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Nice shots Mike!. I like #2 the best. My only comment based on my ancient ski racing experience
is the kid in #1 seems to be leading with the wrong shoulder...
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Only a few days away from closing this challenge! Lots of great images!
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
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