Week 9 – Project Update (1)

Test Shots of American Football

With deadline approaching, as I changed my pitch to focus on a local American Football team, I went down to a practice to start getting some test shots and get the grips with photographing the team.

During the practise, I used techniques taught in class around balancing aperture, shutter speed and ISO. The biggest change I continued to alter was shutter speed as I struggled to reduce the blur that came with the action of throwing the football. I altered around the 1/650 mark, but I think I should push it higher to around the 1/1000 mark.

I also used a lot of burst when trying to capture the quarterback or people catching the ball as I found it tough to get the right moment of the ball being thrown.

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