JV River Hill vs. Reservoir HS

The season is winding down, about 4 more games. It has been fun learning to shoot sports. It's always fun to get home and look at what you've captured - sometimes you're looking straight at it and shooting it and you still don't know what's on there! This week it appeared that I was a magnet for sideline action. Several times, standing on the sidelines shooting, I saw the ball carrier appear to be running straight towards me. Luckily for me, I was smart enough to step from behind the camera and see that, yes indeed, they were headed my way and quickly move. Otherwise, I would have been on the ground with the player, tackler and my camera gear. Not an experience I'm eager to have.

Below are four of my favorite images from this weeks game:

Varsity River Hill Football at Long Reach HS

For the first time, since I started shooting the Varsity games, it did not rain! How delightful not to have an umbrella duct-taped to my monopod along with the balancing act that sometimes requires. Did some experimenting with my shutter speed this time around. When shooting in the dark like this, you can't have your camera on a program mode. With dark and light uniforms and moving subjects, your exposures will be all over the place. You have to shoot in manual - which means the settings on your camera do not change and you choose what they are. Below are my favorite shots of the game. River Hill won the game (they're wearing white as they were the visiting team).