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Thanks, Robby. I don't know that she is comfortable being in front of the camera, but her photos tend to be very striking.
Thanks, Steven. Good point. It's a high-powered program and expectations are very high each year, the goal always being to win a national championship (I think Utah has the most such wins, but it has been a while). So I agree it is great to see that the athletes seem very happy to be where they are.
Thank you, Larry. This is the first time I've positioned myself to try for the move captured in #12. I'll be going it after it again because, as you say, it's a difficult one to get just right (my problem is that even though I know it's coming, I'm always surprised when it does).
Thanks, Focus. I'm a bit confused by your post because I'm trying to imagine how bars could be shot in landscape given that it's such a vertical event (I'd have to be a good deal further away from it to shoot horizontally than I am shooting vertically). Beyond that, however, there's no question that the overshoot (and pak salto) is surprisingly difficult to shoot, for two reasons (that occur to me because I've struggled with them). First is framing. I try to shoot as tight as I can and since most of the action occurs on the high bar, I'm a distance from the bars that allows me to shoot this tight. But with the release from high to low, I have to be able to frame the full handstand-height of the athlete on the low bar, which usually requires that I move back just a bit as I am shooting. Like walking and chewing gum! Even more problematic is focus. Depth of field isn't great and their bodies are cast at an angle away from me with (obviously) their heads/faces being the last part of them to approach the lower bar. For most every other kind of shot, I can focus on the torso and the face is close enough to being in the same plane that DOF is sufficient to provide for a sharp image. Not with this shot, where focus really needs to be as close to the face as possible, and therein lies the challenge of the shot for me--a sharply focused face. Thanks for your detailed comments!
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