You may be covering an action-packed game, but you will get few good images for your yearbook unless you learn how to shoot action in the lights of a gym. Learning about light, whether it is for basketball or any other situation, means understanding some fundamental concepts: quantity, quality and direction.
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When a photographer working for any student media operation takes an assignment, it is more than just an opportunity to go shoot a few snapshots and visit with friends. It is a job. It is an agreement to document history. And the work begins before snapping any photos.
Photography is fun. At least shooting is. But it isn’t easy.
Three college photographers and I spent an entire day recently shooting rugby. Only one of us had ever shot rugby before, so this was a new adventure.