Lakewood Varsity Football vs Gahr

Here is my first post for Friday Night Lights.

 

It felt great being on the sidelines under the lights and even better when the team I'm covering wins.

 

To get some timing down before the game as well as to get some shots I normally wouldn't get during the game I will shoot the receivers and various other shots during warm up, which is when these first few shots were taken.

 

My settings will start at f/2.8 with an ISO of about 800 and as the sun goes down I simply increase my ISO until it's at its max (3200).  Under these lights I was able to keep my shutter around 1/400, which is good for me.

 

Enjoy

 

Lakewood JV Football vs La Serna

The preseason has started and the first game finds me at Lakewood for their JV game.  This year I'm not going to get into any politics or scores, this is all about shooting the action and getting the best shots.  For my first full game of the season I'm very pleased with my end results and hope to only improve as the season goes.

Enjoy my opening shots.

Tonight I'll be covering the Varsity under the lights at Gahr, looking forward to getting out there.

Lakewood Varsity Football vs Gahr

 Now that I covered my first Varsity game under the lights and yes it was on a Friday, I can officially say its football time and what would football be without our beautiful cheerleaders.  So with that I want to start with a few shots of them doing their thing.

As I edit my shots I am always looking for a shot that will translate well into my b&w conversion, so what you want about it, but I like it.

Now to the acton.

Ok, I said in the past I would give more background on how I got the shot.  For this game I will cover the shot below.  First my settings were ISO 3200 (as high as my camera goes), f/2.8, and a shutter of 1/320.  For this shot I positioned myself behind the line of scrimmage.  The team I was covering was on defense and I wanted to get some shots of the defense putting presure or even sacking the quarterback, so as the quarterback dropped back to pass #52 came in from the outside and provided the presure.  This gave me some very nice shots of the quarterback scrambling towards my side to avoid the tackle.  No flash was used as I don't really care for the look of flashed shots in football.

Lakewood Freshmen Football vs Gahr

 Can I get a huge shout out for Football.  It is that time of year again.

For my opening and first game of the season I covered Lakewood freshmen as they competed against Gahr.  It was a decent game but you sure could tell it was the first game of the season.  In the end Lakewood won the game 26-12 with a great performance by the defense.

So enjoy the shots and hopefully your looking forward to another year of great action as much as I am.

I can't help myself, but often I come to a few shots that I think simply look great in this action I made my own.  Actually it's an action that Scott Kelby does, but I convert it to b&w, which in my personal opinion gives it a great look and feel.

With a new year of football comes new cheerleaders, which have to get comfortable with me being around them taking pictures.  So during the first few games I keep my shooting of them to a minimal until they get used to having me around and become more comfortable.  So I will only have one shot at this time, but in reality, its for my stalker friend (you know who your are).