Hoco Fight Night!!!

Getting started was easy, once I was dropped off and expressed to the lady securing the gate that I usually go through there I was let in. I was approached by my teacher who told me to hurry up and get everything set up, I was about ten minutes late because my parents wanted to come and didn’t get ready until the last minute. I put my stuff down, adjusted my settings and got shooting.

My lighting issues consisted of having to continuously change my settings due to the different lighting of different parts of the stadium. Trying to switch from the crowd to the game when something happens, instead of posting towards one or the other caused overexposed pictures of the game.

Another issue I encountered was speed. I did not know when to move during the action, making it hard to keep up with the fast paced game.

The difference between shooting friends and strangers is the comfort level. When shooting friends I feel at ease, but with strangers I feel a level of pressure to be completely on it and to not make mistakes.

When I checked and got my first good image, specifically of action it calmed my nerves. Shooting sports is something I have never done before so I was a little apprehensive.

At the next event I would pay equal attention to the game and crowd. I would also take more pictures of the players and coaches on the sidelines.

I used the 200 and 300 millimeter camera. My f stop was at 3.2 for the crowd and 4.5 for the game, ISO was at 3200, and shutter was between 1\160 and 1\640.

It took me about two hours to crop and edit the photos. Most photos were cropped to 8x10 and things edited was hair in the faces of the dancers and someones shoulder in the corner of one of the pictures.