Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Hatpix Blogs!

Here is the 1st post for the new Hatpix Blog.  Hatpix stands roughly for Halls Action and Team Sports Photography.  I shoot mostly youth sporting events in the Knoxville, TN area.  I'll shoot other stuff too, but really enjoy the kids sports stuff.  

Who knows what I'll post here.  Perhaps some of my best (and worst) images of the week. Maybe some interesting (to me) photography news.  Maybe some tips on what is working and what is not working for me.  

So, what's on tap photograpically for me this week?  I'll be shooting my daughter's softball game tonight at 6:30.  Hopefully, there will be some good lighting tonight and then Thursday, I've got my son's football game.  It has an 8pm start time and the field lights suck so I'll get a chance to practice my flash photography.   Friday night I'll be covering Sevier County vs Seymour high school football for the big school photo company and Saturday I'll be covering my son's bowl
football game.  

Last Friday, Halls lost to West High School and it seems Halls just could not make the big play when they needed to.  Here, the Halls defender breaks up the pass, but can't make the tough interception.  


Here the Halls QB rolls to his right.  West's football field has pretty decent lighting and here I am making do with ISO 6400 on the MKIII.    A bit of noise removal (remove 1/2 the noise setting) in Neat Image and it looks pretty decent.  

Are they still making tear-away jerseys?   I don't think so, but this one gets shredded pretty good.  

And lastly, the stiff-arm.  A classic running back ploy to shed a defender.   Here, the Halls running back uses it pretty effectively. 

 

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