Long Beach Middle School Girls Track Meet - Field Events

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Long Beach had their girls middle school All-City Finals today for field events at Lakewood High School. The events covered during this were the high jump, long jump, and shot put. Since I pretty much captured all of the girls throwing the shot put during their league meet, I spent my time shooting the long and high jumps.

Due to budget cuts with the school district the All-City Finals were held after school. The field events were held today (Tuesday) with the track events being held tomorrow. Today the field events started at 4pm with a face setting sun.

These two shots were taken from the back side of the high jump and while they were competing.

I did take various shots of the girls doing the long jump, but my focus was on the landing. I wanted to capture the sand as it sprayed up and outward. Now I was shooting at a much higher ISO (1000-1600) to give me a decent shutter speed. Also for these I was kneeling very low on the track to capture the right angle of the landing.