After a bit of a hiatus I have returned to the land of the blogger. From time to time I have a reality check and have to tend to other parts of my life. I am hoping that I will be posting more regularly from here on out, but as we all know "life happens".
As a former competitive swimmer I have always enjoyed shooting swim meets. It isn't an assignment that I usually have to fight for as the rest of the staff is happy to let me shoot all the swimming I want. LOL. Over the years,I have tried many different lighting set-ups, lenses, and camera angles to try to get interesting and unique swimming images. And of course when it comes down to it keeping it simple seems to payoff more often than not.
At a recent multi-school meet I decided that I would skip mounting heads on stands and lighting the entire pool. So I just went with an on-camera strobe and used the built-in bounce card. I was encouraged by the light I was getting while shooting test images in the warm-up period. So I figured I would go with it.
In swimming, once you get the lighting, the rest is timing. The photo I wanted to try would only allow me one shot and as luck was on my side, I managed to get the image I was hoping for. I guess crossing my fingers, holding my breath and saying a little prayer did the trick.
Next time I will have to cover my camera so that it doesn't get soaked too.
It's always something...
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