Defensive Baseball
When your feature team is getting no-hit, there’s far more time to focus on the defensive game and work additional angles in the field and for the pitcher.
Buford’s Heddinger Throws No-Hitter
Buford Junior Josh Heddinger through a no-hitter against AA rival Greater Atlanta Christian School Friday. Heddinger was perfect until giving up a fifth-inning walk.
The game was called after five according to GHSA rules for margin of victory. Buford prevailed 12-0.
Wait for the Reaction
In some events where the action makes for less than compelling photos – like 50 meter freestyle swimming heats – the reaction shots are better than the action.
Keeping it Clean
One of the challenges with High School Sports, and especially indoors ones – is keeping the background of the photo clean. A clean background, with minimal distractions helps ensure the viewer will quickly focus on the subject of the photo. Photographers have several tools at their disposal to help ensure a clean background.
Greater Atlanta Christian School’s Long Forum is now playing host to their Volleyball squad as well. The Lady Spartans faced off against Wesleyan last week in what has traditionally been a great match up of two very good volleyball squads. It’s a superb facility for a number of reasons – but for purposes of keeping clean backgrounds, the black seating (when empty) does a great job of helping to isolate the athletes jersey colors from the background (black uniforms not withstanding as you will see.)
Boys Soccer Takes a Win
The Spartans Boys Soccer team fared better against AAA St. Pius, taking home a victory.
Volleyball: Cross-Training for Photographers
I’m a big fan of using different sports to expand my photographic horizons and improve my skills. When you look at it in the broad view, there are a lot of things across sports that are very similar.
Consider a header in soccer. It’s photographically similar to a reception in football, and to a spike in volleyball. A fast moving ball that you are trying to predict where it is going. That judgment carries through to any sport you photograph.
High school volleyball is difficult to shoot because of the light levels in most gyms. Without extremely large aperture lenses (f1.8 or f2.0) it is difficult to get good stop action.
Thursday’s match at Wesleyan was picked for coverage because Wesleyan has a great field house, with a better than average lighting system and the advantage of being able to get above the floor to catch faces in action.
