This deserves so many more likes/views! Love the way you’ve set it out so clearly, with lots of great examples. Thanks for sharing your expertise and knowledge!
Matt, thank you so much for this video. I’ve watched a lot of videos on shooting sports, particularly high school football. My son just started hs and joined the football team. I’ve been shooting 10 years now but never sports. Your video was by far the most comprehensive and helpful I watched. Thank you.
Thank you so much… and you’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed the video and got something out of it. Good luck to your son this season and I hope we cross paths on the sidelines soon!
Excellent tutorial . Too many photographers shoot the same photo over and over and never get that "GREAT" photo. Also by gettign those common photos early then stopping taking those photos not only lets you concentrate on getting on more unusual shots but also reduces your time culling and editing.
Thank you Matt. I'm moving from weddings and portraits to pursue sports photography and I'll tell you breaking into the scene is the hardest job I've ever done
Great reminder! I need to tune my game flow to knock out those safe shots early every game. I'm enjoying the uncommon shots but need to make more time/opportunity for them by hitting the common shots first.
Hello from Kansas! Outstanding tutorial, Matt! I have recently started shooting sports, and have had some images published locally. This video really helped me to develop a gameplan for the next event. Thank you!
Good information and well organized. I will incorporate early arrival into my next shoot. By the way, the Dayton Flyers mascot’s name is Rudy Flyer. ☺️
Thank you for this video! Great way to look at the targets instead of “this is my gear and I sit here….” I’m always interested in seeing different workflows but this was awesome to see the inside the mind of what you’re looking for at events.
Hey dude I live in Gainesville too, I have been shooting since 2000, various sports, weddings, and lightning. I have wanted to shoot on the field for so long. I got to shoot the orange and blue game. I have the gear and drive and the skills to get the best photos
Great video, helped a lot. I just found it after been looking for something like this for a long time. One question. Between the safe common photos and the uncommon photos. Would you say, like in a baseball game, you only take shots of the first two batters ,or the first pitcher. Or do you re-start he common photos every time something changes? I often come in the situation in HS sports that there are so many that deserve their photos to be taken that the uncommon photos are very much just the icing on the cake and when you just happened to get it... I am sure that is me being unexperienced, but we all have to start somewhere:)
Great question! It really depends on what your final goal is for photographing the game. Are you trying to get something of every player to sell to parents? Then yeah, make sure you get common photos of every batter/pitcher/fielder... etc. But if you're photographing the game for a newspaper or if you're the team photographer at every game and you just need to get a gallery of images from the game... Then you can start to take chances, set up for uncommon moments, during the later innings. I'd still try to get something of every batter though. Even if they're just standing at the plate ready to swing. Those are quick and easy and super safe. But also pay attention to what happening in the game. If it's a blowout, then you have some freedom to explore and play. But if the game is tied and there's two outs, bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, you better be prepared to get whatever celebration/dejection might happen. Hope that helps!
@@stamey Thanks, I think it’s the part of setting up for uncommon moments, I have not been thinking of. Just tried to capture them as they come. Game plan coming up:)
27:20 I just had to finish that sentence. Matt says "Follow them out on the field, follow them out on the court, follow them home". He didn't actually say the last part but it seemed like a logical next step :D. Just to be clear it's a logical end to the sentence but not a logical course of action. Don't do that :).
This deserves so many more likes/views!
Love the way you’ve set it out so clearly, with lots of great examples.
Thanks for sharing your expertise and knowledge!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Matt, thank you so much for this video. I’ve watched a lot of videos on shooting sports, particularly high school football. My son just started hs and joined the football team. I’ve been shooting 10 years now but never sports. Your video was by far the most comprehensive and helpful I watched. Thank you.
Thank you so much… and you’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed the video and got something out of it. Good luck to your son this season and I hope we cross paths on the sidelines soon!
Excellent tutorial . Too many photographers shoot the same photo over and over and never get that "GREAT" photo. Also by gettign those common photos early then stopping taking those photos not only lets you concentrate on getting on more unusual shots but also reduces your time culling and editing.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you Matt. I'm moving from weddings and portraits to pursue sports photography and I'll tell you breaking into the scene is the hardest job I've ever done
You're welcome! It's tough for sure.
Excellent presentation, a lot of great reminders in there. Thanks for putting it together, AND uploading!
You're welcome!
Incredible video
Thank you!
thank you! was a well invested time :)
very educative.thanks for this man
thank you!
Great information and good luck in 2021
Nailed it on the tips! Thank you!
Thank you!
This is great! I’m like a sponge right now
Thank you... Glad you could soak it all in!
Great reminder! I need to tune my game flow to knock out those safe shots early every game. I'm enjoying the uncommon shots but need to make more time/opportunity for them by hitting the common shots first.
Hello from Kansas! Outstanding tutorial, Matt! I have recently started shooting sports, and have had some images published locally. This video really helped me to develop a gameplan for the next event. Thank you!
Thanks, Michael! Good luck at your next event(s) and I hope we can share a sideline at some point.
Houma in the house!! Great video and tips, maybe I’ll be shooting with you on the big stage some day.
Down the Bayou! Hope we can cross paths soon.
Good information and well organized. I will incorporate early arrival into my next shoot.
By the way, the Dayton Flyers mascot’s name is Rudy Flyer. ☺️
Rudy! Knew that too.
Amazing ! thanks for sharing
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this video! Great way to look at the targets instead of “this is my gear and I sit here….”
I’m always interested in seeing different workflows but this was awesome to see the inside the mind of what you’re looking for at events.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the look inside my brain 🤣
Action, reaction, and interaction
Hey dude I live in Gainesville too, I have been shooting since 2000, various sports, weddings, and lightning. I have wanted to shoot on the field for so long. I got to shoot the orange and blue game. I have the gear and drive and the skills to get the best photos
This is pure gold
Learned a lot from this video thank you for this!
Great advise. New sub always looking for someone that teaches “easy”. Been shooting Rodeos and just got an invite to shoot PGA this year in Las Vegas.
great video! thanks
Thanks for watching!
Great video, helped a lot. I just found it after been looking for something like this for a long time. One question. Between the safe common photos and the uncommon photos. Would you say, like in a baseball game, you only take shots of the first two batters ,or the first pitcher. Or do you re-start he common photos every time something changes? I often come in the situation in HS sports that there are so many that deserve their photos to be taken that the uncommon photos are very much just the icing on the cake and when you just happened to get it... I am sure that is me being unexperienced, but we all have to start somewhere:)
Great question! It really depends on what your final goal is for photographing the game. Are you trying to get something of every player to sell to parents? Then yeah, make sure you get common photos of every batter/pitcher/fielder... etc. But if you're photographing the game for a newspaper or if you're the team photographer at every game and you just need to get a gallery of images from the game... Then you can start to take chances, set up for uncommon moments, during the later innings. I'd still try to get something of every batter though. Even if they're just standing at the plate ready to swing. Those are quick and easy and super safe. But also pay attention to what happening in the game. If it's a blowout, then you have some freedom to explore and play. But if the game is tied and there's two outs, bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, you better be prepared to get whatever celebration/dejection might happen. Hope that helps!
@@stamey Thanks, I think it’s the part of setting up for uncommon moments, I have not been thinking of. Just tried to capture them as they come. Game plan coming up:)
27:20 I just had to finish that sentence. Matt says "Follow them out on the field, follow them out on the court, follow them home". He didn't actually say the last part but it seemed like a logical next step :D. Just to be clear it's a logical end to the sentence but not a logical course of action. Don't do that :).
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why is everything tilted? 😂
Hopefully, that photographer who caused a penalty was blackballed! I met a few clown photographers during my years as a photographer!
I'm not exactly sure what happened... wasn't worth my time to follow up with them. :)
@@stamey , those type guys embarrasses the photographers who are doing the job right!
You could have made your video level if you wanted to