From the course: Sports Photography: Shooting a Soccer Action Photo
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Getting creative and capturing the decisive moment of action
From the course: Sports Photography: Shooting a Soccer Action Photo
Getting creative and capturing the decisive moment of action
Yeah because at this point, the light is down and there's not much difference between this light and this light. So, we can just slide this guy out of the way. I knew I have the available light shot and I had already intended to think about pushing the edge a little bit further with some strobe lights and really making it a little bit darker, a lot more moody and get a lot of action in play with some motion blur that I could achieve with some strobes. So, the first part of that is to start thinking about where am I going to be putting these lights. It's the middle of the day. A little bit of overhead had come in, so we had some overcast sky. But I'm thinking, well, what we could use is actually recreate some stadium lighting. So the idea between this lighting is basically reconstruct a stadium light coming down on the field and then bring in the light that we want to use to basically sculpt the shadows on the players faces during the peak point of action. Since we're working at 2 50th…