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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I’ll be headed to Fort Worth, Texas, for a high school football playoff game between Aubrey High School and Godley High School in Northwest Fort Worth this evening. Thankfully, the weather, although cold, will cooperate so that I can capture images of one player whose family brought me on board for their action photography needs!

I have done perhaps a hundred Texas high school football games and counting. It never gets old seeing youthful energy and good sportsmanship on display. However, I do remember having my fill of it a long time ago, and heading for California to work, in large part because of local news outlet’s overkill coverage of North Texas high school football. Thankfully, the fields have become a lot more diverse in the last thirty years! We actually have soccer, field hockey and many more sports represented at the high school level – nothing on the scale of California’s high school sports diversity, but high school sports in Texas? It’s getting “interesting-er and interesting-er” all the time.

Denver at San Diego John Elway by Shannon Drawe

I guess you could say, I have done some sports photography over the decades. This shot – ON FILM and on DEADLINE from San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium (gone now).

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Better Sports Photography

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