I haven’t been blogging lately just because I am having trouble finding the time to sit down and write a little something. However, I did want to share a little bit with you today. I have recently started shooting for Oakland Community College Athletics again. The first sport that is in season for them is volleyball. Volleyball is not a sport that I photograph too often but when I got a chance to, I accepted the challenge to try something a little bit out of the norm for me and see what I could come up with.
To start, I wanted to use a remote camera to get two angles on the action. I started off by putting it in the corner off to the side of the court. It was looking decent until the game started and the line judge stood right in front of it. Here is what I got. Not too pretty.
I then decided to move it to where it would be parallel with the net or directly behind the players. When it was behind them I did two things, 1) tight and 2) one wider. The pictures weren’t too bad. The wide angle was cool, but there was too much else in the pictures for my taste. The tighter angle, however, was much cleaner. I was able to get the shot below with the remote camera and the picture right below it is from the camera I was using. I was able to get a nice head on shot, with a pretty neat view from the remote.
Now the picture below is the wider view. It is kind of cool, but there is too much going on in the picture for my taste, and the lights are washing out the ceiling.
Here are just a few other shots from the night.
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– Tim