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Friday Night Lights
Adam Vogler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | Mo. | USA | Posted: 5:45 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> Taking a break from our usual threads about credentials policy, Nikon vs Canon take a billion and working for free; tonight's the first night of high school football here in Mo.
Forget about my new Chiefs credentials, what I'm really excited about my new job is covering some state championship contending HS teams.
The chants of the cheerleaders; the rumble of the marching band's drum line, $1 hot dogs and a bunch of kids who'll never be considered as a D2 walk-on much less for a scholarship giving their all on the field.
THIS is what I love about shooting sports. How bout ya'll? |
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Bruce Ely, Photographer
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 5:51 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> Amen Adam!!!
I'm passing on covering college football this year and working Friday nights. |
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Todd Spoth, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 5:54 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> I rarely get to cover the high school level since Im not working at a newspaper anymore, but im covering a football game tomorrow night on assignment.
10,000 seat high school stadium...gotta love Texas! |
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Marc F. Henning, Photographer
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Bentonville | AR | USA | Posted: 5:54 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> screw the lights. i'd love shooting high school football a lot more if they were all day games. we have two, maybe three, high school stadiums of the 20 or so in our coverage area that you can shoot without having to use flash. even then if it gets into a red zone situation you have to turn the flash on to shoot from the back of the end zones. i do enjoy the high school environment, but after 15 years the poor lighting has gotten really old.
as far as D1 college goes, i'm chomping at the bit for next saturday to get here.
marc |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 6:01 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> Thursday night lights: NCSU vs USC. |
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Adam Vogler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | Mo. | USA | Posted: 6:03 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> right there with ya on the night games Marc. I can remember how bright the stadiums were there growing up (I'm a Van Buren grad, class of 94).
I'm gonna miss doing college ball this year though, no schools in our coverage area. |
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Matt Brown, Photographer
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Fullerton | CA | USA | Posted: 6:05 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> I love high school football. Nothing better! I don't care about bad lights. Make it work. The games are full of stuff to shoot. I shot DeShaun Foster went played at Tustin in CA. He had 5 TD's 400 yards, over 200 in kick returns and still lost to Carson Palmer. Great game. |
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Colin Heyburn, Photographer
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ARMAGH | NI | United Kingdom | Posted: 6:07 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> You guys should try Fri night rugby in the UK ............ absolutely awesome. Or for that matter rugby at anytime is simply the best ... :))) |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 6:31 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> Man I never knew Foster went to Tustin. What year?
I love shooting high school football. It is still pure to me. Night flash is a challenge and one I enjoy as well. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 7:27 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> I can't wait!!! I'll be shooting Friday night High School football then Saturday to cover SDSU College football. |
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Danny Munson, Photographer
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San Dimas | Ca | United States | Posted: 8:24 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> Next Fri. for me. Time to dust off the lighting contraption.With the MIII's ISO performance over the MIIn's, this year a few fields will be shot ambient. |
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Jody Gomez, Photographer
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Murrieta | CA | USA | Posted: 10:34 PM on 08.28.09 |
| ->> I love high school football too. I'm spoiled because not only does my stadium hold 8,000 people, but the lights are bright enough that I don't have to use flash. It's great! |
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Mark Buffalo, Photographer
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Lonoke | AR | USA | Posted: 11:24 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> I love shooting high school football more than anything. The only thing about it is I cover three high schools and the fifth largest school in the state of Arkansas has the worst lights of the three I cover! But I don't mind breaking out the flash when i need to.
Oh, Marc. Have a safe trip to LR for the Hogs' opener. I haven't heard about a credential yet. |
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David Manning, Photographer
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Athens | GA | | Posted: 11:34 PM on 08.28.09 |
->> I had a pretty darn good game except that my best shots were of plays that got called back on a penalty.
Trying to get back into a rhythm of things before Georgia kicks off at home in 2 weeks. Still some rust to knock off. |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 12:37 AM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> My first High School game in 3 years, even got an early start time of 7pm and had beautiful light for the first half. Good Times. |
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Michael Durisseau, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Fe/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 12:45 AM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I shot my first game tonight! |
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Tim Casey, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 12:49 AM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I'm going to be setting up remote flash units at the few high school games I photograph this year. Last year, I put them on monopods and found people on the sideline were happy to hold them or let them lean on them during the game. Got some good results, no flash on the camera. |
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Ron Erdrich, Photographer
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Abilene | TX | USA | Posted: 1:05 AM on 08.29.09 |
->> My stadium got a new pressbox over the summer, complete with elevator. I thanked them and my knees thanked them, too. Plus getting a D3 this year finally allowed me to go back to nat light football photography. Bye bye flash, hello all those pictures I missed 'cuz the quantum couldn't recycle fast enough.
-R- |
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Andrew Carpenean, Photographer
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Laramie | WY | USA | Posted: 1:17 AM on 08.29.09 |
->> Speaking of which watch out for those Friday night lights from crashing down on you.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20534068/detail.html
I've always enjoyed photographing sports on all levels, but especially the national tradition of a Friday night football game. There is a certain feeling in the air this time of year with students going back to school, a change in seasons and fall sports going into full swing, an anticipation of the big game with festivities during homecoming week leading up to Friday night. Friday night lights brings back fond memories of when I was a teenager.
On occasion you have an opportunity to cover a special athlete who rises above the rest. That athlete for me was Austin Box who played ball for Enid High School, Enid, Okla. who is now a junior linebacker for the Oklahoma Sooners. A small town of a little less than 50,000 has produced nine NFL athletes, Lydell Carr one of the more popular names.
Its a lot of fun watching an athlete grow and lead their team to a state championship later to play on a division I team. Hopefully Austin will become Enid's 10th NFL player. |
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Derick Hingle, Photographer
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Princeton | IN | USA | Posted: 1:10 PM on 08.29.09 |
->> I've shot two Friday nights already and there were downpours near halftime at both games. Last night's game was stopped because of lightning.
I'm with Marc Henning though, I would prefer to shoot during the daytime. I worked at a paper several years ago in New Hampshire and they played all the games on Saturday afternoons. No fussing over crappy lights and no worries on the use of strobes.I loved it. |
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Anantachai Brown, Photographer
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Jacksonville | FL | | Posted: 1:42 PM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I'm starting to get excited!!! |
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Patrick Meredith, Photographer, Assistant
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Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 1:58 PM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I shot my first game last night...I forgot how crazy a small stadium can get over a first down... |
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Darren Whitley, Photographer
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Maryville | MO | USA | Posted: 8:07 PM on 08.29.09 |
->> Ron,
You must not be talking about Shotwell Stadium. I met Tommy there Thursday evening during the weather delayed Northwest/ACU game. The pressbox leaked like crazy. It's still not a bad stadium. |
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Tom Suarez, Photographer
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Austin | texas | USA | Posted: 8:39 PM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I just shot my first game of the season in addition to 2 scrimmages and a practice. Heres a link to last nights game if anyone wants to take a look. http://tomsuarez.zenfolio.com/p355248897 |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 8:55 PM on 08.29.09 |
->> Tom,
Make sure you are renaming your galleries for SEO :) |
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Jody Gomez, Photographer
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Murrieta | CA | USA | Posted: 9:12 PM on 08.29.09 |
->> My first game is September 4th, then I have a bye week, so I'm off to slow start.
:~( |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 9:16 PM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> I can not believe how late other states start. Usually Utah is always behind the times lol |
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Tom Suarez, Photographer
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Austin | texas | USA | Posted: 9:37 PM on 08.29.09 |
| ->> Matthew, What did you mean about renaming galleries for SEO? Also I noticed you do not offer 4 x 6 or 4 x 5, How is this working for you? |
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Mark Buffalo, Photographer
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Lonoke | AR | USA | Posted: 12:32 AM on 08.30.09 |
->> Arkansas starts its regular season Aug. 31-Sept. 4. We have a bunch of special games at some of the colleges around the state. I shot 3 benefit scrimmages last week with all three of my teams playing...the first two were available light and for the third, I had to break out the flash.
But after next week, I'll be gone for two weeks to China to complete my adoption process. I'm sure I'll be rusty and jetlagged when I get back! |
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Guy Rhodes, Photographer
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East Chicago | IN | USA | Posted: 6:42 AM on 08.30.09 |
->> Andrew,
Interesting you post that link about the poles, a local high school here had a pole fall over (luckily during the winter) into the bleachers. The failure occurred at the same place the article describes (where the pole is welded to the base), it just peeled right off. The poles were around 20 years old, and have since been replaced. |
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