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Looking for a shot from SI
Thomas Hobbs, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Tallahassee | FL | USA | Posted: 12:21 PM on 09.22.08 |
| ->> I am looking for a pic of a shot from SI a few years ago. I believe it was the National Champ. game and I think it was Texas, but I'm not sure. It was a wide angle shot from the goal line showing the goal line being crossed and a lot of the stadium in the background. Any help would be much appreciated. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 12:28 PM on 09.22.08 |
->> I think you may be thinking of Josh Merwin's Leading Off shot, in SI.
I could be wrong, but I know he had a number of leading off shots in SI shot covering Texas |
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Thomas Hobbs, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Tallahassee | FL | USA | Posted: 2:44 PM on 09.22.08 |
| ->> I saw that cover, but for some reason it just doesn't seem like the one I remember. Though it probably is and my memory is faulty. That's usually the case. |
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Thomas Hobbs, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Tallahassee | FL | USA | Posted: 9:07 AM on 09.24.08 |
| ->> The more I think about it, that first shot might be it. I jsut can't remember. It seems like the shot was even more of a wide angle, but for the life of my I can't be sure. Thanks for the help guys. |
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Thomas Hobbs, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Tallahassee | FL | USA | Posted: 10:30 AM on 09.24.08 |
| ->> ok, thanks to some helpful SS.com members, I know it was by Wally Skalij. But I can't seem to find it anywhere. It was a remote goalline shot of Vicne Young. |
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Donald Montague, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | | Posted: 11:33 AM on 09.24.08 |
| ->> Wally show us that image during SSA 3 as a way to think outside of the box. he used a floor remote with a wide angle lens and set it on the down to shoot across the goal line as Vince Young scored the game wining touchdown. |
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Brad Mangin, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | USA | Posted: 1:23 PM on 09.24.08 |
->> Click on this link to download a PDF file of the Los Angeles Times sports front featuring Wally's fantastic photograph:
http://tinyurl.com/4s7wyy |
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Thomas Hobbs, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Tallahassee | FL | USA | Posted: 1:32 PM on 09.24.08 |
| ->> Thanks everyone! I appreciate the help. Exactly what I was looking for. |
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Bradley Leeb, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 1:36 PM on 09.24.08 |
| ->> Donald, perhaps you can shed some light on this as you said you saw the image at SSA 3, and perhaps Wally spoke about the setup a little. The question that I have, as someone without experience setting up remotes for a shot like that, is how was the focus point chosen? It seems that much of the time with remotes, you know exactly where you want the action to be (home plate, finish line, backboard, etc.) so you can anticipate the focus and set accordingly. Was that remote set for the express purpose of a play at the front corner of the endzone? |
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William Maner, Photographer
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Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 2:01 PM on 09.24.08 |
->> Wally must have set that camera up during the timeout before the play was ran. With all the activity on the sidelines during big games, I doubt if that camera sat there the whole game.
Brad Leeb: You pose some interesting questions. I assume Wally set the camera on a high f-stop, maybe f/11.. He surely had to bump his ISO to the max in order to get fast enough of a shutter speed to stop the action.
The way the NCAA regulates sidelines. a camera would have to be at least 12 feet from the sideline. If he was using a 35mm 1.4 lens, he could get a focused depth of field from about 4.5 feet to about 280 feet at f/11 if he preset his focus at nine feet or roughly three meters. |
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