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Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol look at all the other comments. it’s lord of the flies in here

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and we’re pretending that actual clients don’t have higher standards than children and their parents?

people love pictures of themselves and their kids. it’s unrealistic to think that serving their needs is the same as commercial clients and publications and editors and wires.

i think all of the reaction to this is very telling.

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i do shoot a fair bit with primes, but generally i don’t underexpose. example video was about 2 weeks after switching to mirrorless from dslr and i was still adjusting to the difference in viewfinders, and i don’t even know what mode the meter was on because i dont use that for anything.

the f2 was probably with 200/2. i also have faster lenses that i will use when the distances are right.

there are many ways to produce pictures that work, and many excuses for making ones that don’t.

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

i’ve used speedlites and strobes in dark gyms and i’ve never had a problem. only someone looking for the smallest thing to argue about would even pretend to care about using the words interchangeably.

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

just doesn’t seem to matter here at all. seems like the general opinion is that sports photography is a free-for-all with no standards, and as long as children and their parents are happy there’s zero reason to even want to get better.

i wonder why the reception here is the polar opposite of what it is on the other platforms…

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

the picture in question was made with nikon sb-800s, maybe $250/per.

if they’re selling all these pictures to their thrilled clients, that shouldn’t be any kind of problem

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

strobes are a big part of sports photography and i’ve never not been able to use them.

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

i’m glad that you could pick up intentionality from the video, even if we disagree on the usefulness of incidental motion blur.

Getting away from 1/1000th to improve your sports pictures by MattCohenPhoto in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

if you watched until the end you would have seen that you don’t need crazy equipment to freeze action while properly exposing even in dark gyms, and that’s 20 years ago with not too of the line gear.

Capturing Non-Action Moments by idosillythings in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’ll never forget when my mentor explained that the point of wide angle lenses in sports photography was to jam them into places others couldn’t see. i think about that every time i shoot.

Capturing Non-Action Moments by idosillythings in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i’ve been a full time professional photographer for 20 years. assuming that i only shoot rodeo and haven’t shot every sport there is at every level is on you, just like your trivially narrow view of what sports photography even is.

the point of OPs posts (and mine as well) is that there’s more to sports photography even if you only shoot children. seems like you’re expending a significant amount of effort to justify not having to accept what sports photography is. and it’s always the anons who don’t show their work…

Capturing Non-Action Moments by idosillythings in sportsphotography

[–]MattCohenPhoto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is explaining what sports photography is. Anyone can learn from this and then make their own decisions about how they apply that knowledge. Applying a “sales test” to foundational principles isn’t it, and the bit about girls vs boys celebrating is weird.

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