Today in the GAA...
Monday, November 6. 2006
If you didn't know, I take pictures for one of the"school" papers. They gave me the assignment of shooting the UCD vs. Vincent GAA (that's Gaelic Football) Dublin County final. Colm called ahead to square away press access for Adrian and me. 2 buses later, was was 2 feet from the out of bounds line at my first football game.
Sports photography is TOTALLY different from my norm. You have to take a lot more photos and throw many more away. They will all be grainy, most will be fuzzy, and a lot will have some significant part out of the frame. All that is due to crappy light, shaking hands, and the fact that a person is a faster/better focuser than any AF system. Luckily I'd practiced at some IFIUS games about a month ago.
Check out selected images at the GAA gallery.
Sports photography is TOTALLY different from my norm. You have to take a lot more photos and throw many more away. They will all be grainy, most will be fuzzy, and a lot will have some significant part out of the frame. All that is due to crappy light, shaking hands, and the fact that a person is a faster/better focuser than any AF system. Luckily I'd practiced at some IFIUS games about a month ago.
Check out selected images at the GAA gallery.
