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A few people at my photo club meeting were talking about sports photography and it got me interested to give it a try again since the last time I did that was years ago. I was really lucky my friend asked me if I wanted to go to the UH Rainbow Wahine Volleyball game. This is the first time for me to shoot volleyball but I've seen a lot of cool pics other photog friends took.
I wasn't sure if I could take photos but I brought my camera anyways. We had great seats but I was hesitant to take out my canon w/ the 70-200mm lens since I saw no other photogs in the stands but decided I had to try after half time . It helped that I had been watching the game for a while so I kind of knew what to expect and what kind of shots I wanted to get. Overall, I think shooting in manual mode worked best. Too bad (but good for the Rainbow Wahines) that I had only game 3 as the Wahines swept Portland the first night.
The second night I decided on a smaller prime lens the 100mm since it was smaller. It worked well, but I had to do some cropping to get tighter action. And again, it was a sweep the 2nd night against Northwestern.
The action is really fast, and in retrospect, I should've tried for faster shutter speed.
As I was watching the first half, I knew I wanted to get some celebratory shots.
Timing my shots were so difficult since they hit really fast and as soon as I clicked and my camera took the shot, the ball had flown across the court. I managed to catch a couple that wasn't so fast.
This was Aloha ball against Northwestern. Everyone stood up and I also stood up for this final shot.
2 comments:
Great actions shots, perfect white balance - you did very well for your first shoot of a volleyball game.
Great action shots! Your timing is excellent with the kill shots. Nice job. You are hired.
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