p.4 #5 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
[... when you can hum the music from the compulsory floor routine for gymnastics levels 4, 5, and 6.]
Something worse then that, younger girls fastpitch and those chants and the one I will now be thinking about all day after this post, "once there was a froggie, sitting on a loggie............."
p.4 #6 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When your white lens has black specks on it.
When you have made eye contact with an out of control driver heading right for you...and they look scared.
when you open your suitcase and see nothing but extension cords and battery chargers.
When you can use your head as a cleat to tie off a tugboat from hanging two bodies around your neck. One with 70-200 2.8 is and the other with the 100-400.
p.4 #8 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When you have to explain to people that the damage done to your cell phone was not of your carelessness, but rather getting leg-whipped on the sidelines and catching a cleat.
p.4 #12 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
This is a very funny theme, this happened to me last week.
While shooting a HS soccer game a mother and a teacher walked up to me and said with her point and shoot and says (without any word prior) "I get shots as good as your big camera and lens and I give them away for free to the students", just as I got a header with the ball plastered on the head of the player from 60 yards away with my 400 2.8. All I said was I don't doubt it.....and walked away, before my inner sarcastic child starting laughing.
p.4 #13 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
- When you use the terms "chimping" or "sportrait" and expect people to understand you.
- When you consider f2.8 to be your slower glass.
- When everyone in the arena saw more of the game than you.
- When you're the only one who can see the lights cycling with the naked eye.
- When you'd rather not have 1/2" of plexiglass between you and the 100mph pucks.
- When you take pictures of sports photogs.
p.4 #15 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When you are the only one who actually looks at the by line under the photos in sports magazines, and also wonder what the gear and exif were on the shot.
p.4 #16 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When you go to a professional sporting event to watch a game at a local stadium and give the people sitting around you shooting with D-Rebels and D 50's the exposure for the field for a night game. - Then trying to convince them that you know what you're talking about.
p.4 #17 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
bryenf wrote:
....You wish your name ended in shizzy :-) THAT is FUNNY!
You get a shirt with your name on the front and nick pro wrote:
"dont hassle a photographer unless your ready to pay for his equipment."
on the back. (thx nick pro)
Two weeks ago we had a pretty rough football game and I was actually chased down the sidelines by a parent wanting ot know if I got the shot of the hold or fouls or whatever it was. This happened four times that game. Very weird.
You know when:
I brought my 300/2.8 and both bodies so I could get to better shooting positions at my neices graduation........
sleverington wrote:
When you're at your real job and everyone hears you laughing out loud when reading this forum.
Except I work at home and the Guinea pigs don't care. But the window is open.
bigfredtn wrote:
Telling your son that you are going to leave him at home because he is not ready. (It's his football game)
Getting to field at 9:00am, but he does not play until 12:30pm
Happens to my daughter (cheerleader) all the time.
When you shoot the sidelines of a football game and when the players disappear from the 300 you just know to grab your wide and point it at the field (because it's prefocused) and run backwards......as you see helmets at your feet.
p.4 #18 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
sjames19 wrote:
Mom - Well I shouldn't have to pay for all of that stuff. I just want my son's pictures. They ARE pictures of my son, so those pictures should be mine.
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On another note, I took some great pictures of Mt. Rainier this summer. I guess that mountain should now be mine.
Actually, using that mother's logic, the pictures you took should belong to Mt. Ranier.
I don't get the moon question, but I do get a similar question just about every other game- "How far can you see with that thing?"
