Lakewood Varsity "Under the Lights"

Football isn't official until I shoot my first Varsity game under the lights. So I can now officially say that football season is now here. Lakewood High had their first pre-season game agasint Crenshaw High at home this last Friday. With both the freshmen and JV teams losing the varsity really needed to pull out a win for Lakewood.


I will usually arrive at a game early to get some shots during the teams warm-up. This allows me to get some nice action of the recievers and possibly some nice sportraits (sport portraits) of some of the players. This first shot had some great lightning and just yelled out "Play with me", so I did.

Then there are a few action shots taken before the sun went down and the lights were on.

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The biggest obstacle for shooting varsity games is that their at night. Night games can be real rough as most high school football fields have terrible lights and without the proper gear it is virtually impossible to get some decent action shots. To better understand what is involved in shooting football games at night, please read and view my post titled "Photographing Football"

For my first night game I don't think I did too bad. I did end with some nice captures and was happy with how my gear worked out for me.

All of these shots were shot in manual mode with an aperture of f/2.8, a shutter of 1/400, and an ISO of 3200. I also used my flash, which was set a full power.