Are y'all planning on similar videos for other sports? These videos and the basketball one have taught me a lot and I would love to see how pros approach other sports.
love the detail of your approach and thinking through an entire game. Also the way you handle the equiptment for FB matches. I mainly cover swimming and this is super helpful in planning for field sports!
Oh my gosh! The Card rename trick and the filename meta is smart! you have no clue how many times, it's the middle of the night and I'm looking at a card and comparing if it's already cataloged!
I am so thankful for all of your content here. If you need an assistant or extra pair of hands to do anything while you visit Morgantown and WVU this year, please reach out! Would love to shadow, carry batteries, or anything else!
LOL... my first thought was: "That's all?" 🙂 I shot 1300 for two games (junior high and varsity) of 8-man football this past Friday, with just over 1000 for varsity. I know my bad habit is not following the players after the play and not shooting all the way through a sequence so I am definitely missing some shots.
@@azppmd R6 and 5D3 here (adapted EF 70-200 f/2.8L on the former, hand-held 300mm f/2.8L on the latter). I keep forgetting to get sideline and crowd reactions after big plays/scores... I look for the players to celebrate but don't usually think to look at the bench.
I don't photograph football, but I do for a marching band in the city where I live. I appreciate all the tips that I can use for, at times, fast moving musical performances that also take place on a football field. No one has tackled a tuba player yet, but I’ll be ready if it happens😂
Thanks for another amazing look behind the scenes. I appreciate the move toward trying to simulate the experience of a single shooter - since that’s my frame of reference. I’m still trying to figure out how to make the workflow faster but retain high quality in a scenario where the lighting is often changing between angles, I’m not always able to get the best position around the field/court, and the lighting is so much worse for high schools than for college/pro venues. It looks like it takes longer for me to run de-noise on an image than it does for you to do a full edit! Thanks for showing us what the top level looks like. The organizational tips were gold - unique file names and folder name change.
This was an amazing and informative video! Well worth the time to watch and I really enjoyed how you went from start to end. This series of two videos are the best I have seen. I would love to see something similar for baseball shooting in the spring!
A quick note, when getting your photos into photomechanic in sync when using multiple cameras make sure the time and date in the cameras match up to each other, especially when you have traveled into a different time zone and want the camera data to record the images in local time. It would also be interesting to hear about how your approach changes during inclement weather. Over the years I'm sure you have had to shoot making games in a rain storm and a probably a few in a snow storm. One thing that you didn't really cover is in regards to injured players, some times an injured player can become a major development in a game, if you capture an injury during the live action what is your protocol, also with doctors and trainers attending to an injured player One last thing, I am not sure how you balance this out, toward the end of the game you went into the team bench area to get some shots. If a game has a lopsided score how do you balance those bench shots with getting shots of second or third team players in action. Those players may play in only a few games a year and that may be the only time you can get them in game action.Don't forget a scoreboard shot at the end of the game especially in a closely contested game or an upset.
1. weather often becomes part of the story, so if it starts raining/snowing I try to get detail shots of weather, overalls, play with fan perspective. 2. I usually take photos of docs and trainers working on players, walking them off the field, they always appreciate the photos at the end of the season. Gotta take care of the guys who will take care of you when the running back slams into you on the sidelines. 3. end of game is always a balance, at home I'll spend more time in bench area because I have other shooters watching the action, on road I'll prioritize 3rd stringers action more, unless it is a big win with lots of emotion.
These videos are remarkably well done and truly a service to anyone who shoots sports. Jaren -- I'm assuming that you eventually code replace your player names into the meta, yes?
Actually we don't add the names in with code replacement. Our graphic designers go through the photos and separate them into folders for each athlete, and then misc groupings like celebrations, crowd, etc. We are working on using AI to do the metadata tagging.
Excellent to see a sports in good sunny dry weather is a rarity here in Ireland. As its usually damp, grey overcast windy and cold with the odd dry sunny few times as most days as we dont have a 4 season
You can screen record with a Ninja recorder, but it disables the viewfinder which makes it difficult for shooting sports. We'll probably do it for a future video on AF techniques.
Thanks so much for putting this video together. So detailed and interesting. I really loved the detail about carrying all the gear and the strap management. How do you manage storing your long lens on the sidelines? I would be so nervous about it getting damaged or stolen.
I try to keep my long lenses with me most of the time, depending on the stadium, the sidelines are pretty safe, but the risk of someone running into it or stepping on it is always high. Sometimes when I need to shoot an overall I'll set the lens down on the ground against the wall, but not often.
Hi Jaren, congratulations for the video and for the work done. I would like to ask you a question with which parameters (aperture priority, auto ISO, etc) do you usually take football photos?
Where do you position yourself to shoot DBs and safeties? I'm thinking closer to the line of scrimmage since further down the field or opposite goal line might have too many obstructions. I've been commissioned to shoot 2 DBs, free and strong safeties on same team, which are the most difficult in my opinion other than receivers. Thanks-Love your videos!
Nice video, as always. Any tips on preventing exposure setting changes from the dials/wheels getting jostled while running with camera hanging on Blackrapid strap? Oh and what is the adapter you have between the Blackrapid strap and cam? Looks like some sort of ring.
I cover the setup in part 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZyWLzWwABE.htmlsi=oK0WATShJMTKBmn_&t=173 As do settings getting jostled, I think I have to adjust the length of the strap so it just right and I don' t have too many problems.
Can you go into detail about your process of switching focus between players in this quick movements? Thats the main issue I have when shooting fast sports, my camera will focus on the wrong person and by the time I've got the camera focused correctly I miss the moment. I'm shooting on an R6 so same software. People coming across the frame and my focus jumping also sucks.
We use back button focus and pull off the button when obstructions are coming through, I address it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZyWLzWwABE.html
Wow. congarts! let me ask you about your focus point election? how many points? About your focus point selection, fully automatic? or do you choose zone focus?
very useful. I am puzzled why you had to crush magentas and purples, does it mean the camera got the wrong white balance? or just the uniforms are showing wear?
Are you shooting manual the whole game? Could you go over those settings during a game? For example, when would you shoot manual or maybe AV or TV? Great content and explanations.
Also, if I can ask, I would have expected you had lightroom profiles or similar, to achieve a consistent look, game after game after game. a look that could become your brand. is this something you use in other instances?
Don't know if it's something you want to discuss but how about tips and suggestions for workouts, stretches, and physical postures for not hurting yourself or straining things like knees and shoulders from shooting during a game (I've had to ice my patella tendon on my left leg twice a day since Friday night)? I figure it's more a matter of being a non-exercising cube-dweller and that walking the sidelines on Friday night is the most workout I have gotten of late but the knee pain stopped me from getting down/into a crouch so I ended up shooting standing up (I'm 6'5") which is less than ideal for football in general and high school in particular.
Definitely outside my wheelhouse, All I can say that I try to walk a lot during the week and I use knee pads on really hard sidelines. Your doctor could also recommend knee braces or other solutions, hope you feel better.
Is there a trick or an easy way to synchronize the clocks on your cameras so that when you merge shots from multiple cameras afterward they are in the proper time sequence? I find that it's easy for the clocks my R6 and 5D3 to drift apart by several seconds/week so I end up with the run-back from an interception showing up BEFORE the interception because I shot them with different cameras. (Or is that something that can be addressed by Photo Mechanic on import... like "Subract 54 seconds from all selected photos"?)
I usually do it manually every few weeks, but you can use an ethernet cable to do it with the R3: cam.start.canon/ky/C010/manual/html/UG-06_Network_0140.html
@@byuphoto I'm pretty sure the Canon Connect smartphone app will update the time on my R6 but getting the 5D Mark iii (a much older camera) on the correct time isn't something I can do with an app or ethernet. Guess I'll need to work on synching down to the second before hand. Thanks for all of the great info!
The Black Rapid Dual Straps, but we modify it Peak Design quick release clips, I explain it in Part 1 of this series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZyWLzWwABE.html
It’s to stop the manual focus ring from moving so you don’t knock it when shooting. 99.9 percent of the time you’ll use the the camera/lens autofocus system when shooting football.
yea he could😂 but being a sports photographer ur always gonna shoot high shutters no matter what unfortunately 😂 but maybe so he wont get hand shake in the photo is my guess
Camera Raw and Lightroom use the same engine, but with different interfaces. We don't love that you need to use a catalog in lightroom, which doesn't work well with the volume of photo that we process, but with the new update that is no longer the case. I'll try it out!
Thank you for sharing! Always great to see how other photographers go about shooting game days. PhotoMechanic is AWESOME. Best investment for a sports photographer, period. Did you know when you reset the counter for file rename you don't have to open the "Set {seqn} variable" dialog box and click reset. You can simply ALT-click the button to reset :-) I haven't watched Part 1 yet, I hope you talk about your settings especially if you use some of the AI based face detect modes or "plain old" center point. I am shooting Nikon Z8 and a D5 and am struggling finding an AF mode on the Z8 I like for football (and basketball also). The R3 seems like a killer sports camera.
Thanks for the tip, in Part 1 I dive into all the AF modes we use and our techniques, Check it out at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ZyWLzWwABE.html
A tip for those who shoot multiple bodies... the internal clocks on them even if they are all from the same manufacturer do not tick at the same pace. I've owned all Canon 7D's, 1DX, 1DX2, R3 & R6 and I can sync the clocks and within a couple of days, they are off. So I have to sync before each event to make sure when importing into Photo Mechanic the pics sort correctly when viewing capture time. Frustrating.
I've learned that if you take a camera battery out without turning off the camera, it can mess with the clock. Switch off the cameras before swapping batts.
