Better Sports Photography

An Aesthetic TIP For More Dramatic Sports Images

Here is one technique you won’t learn from your professors, adjuncts or teaching assistants, let alone a high school journalism teacher I know. If I am wrong, sound off!

Many of the old techniques are still responsible for great images today, whether a young photographer realizes where they came from – OR NOT.

There have always been plenty of photojournalists, all around me at these games, who know about this technique (WATCH THE VIDEO), but for various reasons didn’t use it, or used it very infrequently. I just couldn’t see shooting any other way.

Thanks for watching and reading. More photography tips and techniques will come soon. I am enjoying the showing and sharing I have been known for for many years in my fly fishing life.

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Friday night was under the lights once again. This time all the way to the outskirts of San Angelo, Texas, to photograph the Aubrey football game in the colder and damper than last week stadium in Clyde, Texas. Thank goodness Clyde had LED lighting in their stadium, and I still get good results even though the push is to 3200. I’ve been pushing a long time …

Aubrey high school sports football action photography. — My rules for sports are simple, ***and violated*** here in the interest of peak action. The rule: Hands. Ball Face. Two-out-of-three worked this time.

Two more couches made the grade this past weekend, and it was like a community thing — just two blocks apart. Denton seems to have “couch hatches” where they just come up from nowhere, and then they’re gone. I am two couches away from my “First 50 Couches” project being complete, with as much as whimper as a bang.

I will be adding to my Denton Stock Photography this week as well. The images are from the Denton Farmer’s Market and the most recent UNT Homecoming Parade. Funny about that parade; it looked like the last homecoming parade – almost exactly – and that must have been more than a decade ago. Strange how some things never appear to change, isn’t it? The same can be said for photography, but much more concisely: IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE. That may be hard for today’s youngsters to believe, but it’s true.

I can imagine someone has even taken it on themselves to spend two years of their valuable lives chasing down couches on streets somewhere other than here in Denton. I can imagine it, but I have never seen it, but because I have never seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. Take that to heart.

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