p.5 #4 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
I was told this by a mom at one of my daughter's softball games.
"Cameras are so good now a days that anybody can take good pictures!!!!!!!"
Rightttttttttttttt!!!! You keep telling yourself that lady. Had another mom ask me for some help with her camera settings. She proceeds to tell me the following:
"I'm pretty good at photography, and I usually get some great pics. I just don't know how to set my camera up!!!!!!!!" WTF!!!!!!!
During the LL baseball season, I have permission (from the commisioner) to be on the filed during play for any game that I have been hired to shoot by one of the teams.
The last game I covered I had a mom yell at me "GET OFF THE FIELD GET OFF THE FIELD!!!!!!!!!! THE UMPIRE WILL STOP THE GAME!!!!!!!"
During innings I explained to her that I have permission to be on the field. She just walked away.
Parents are absolutly amazing. I now only shoot my daughter and nephews. If its soooooooo easy lets see them create the images. I deliver all prints to my brother of his sons at the field so that the other parents can see the quality that I produce. I just snicker when I hear comments like "why don't mine look like that!!!!!!"
p.5 #5 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
You know you're a sports photographer (who has shot on a new artificial turf field) when your wife finds "lots of poppy seeds" on your socks when she's doing the wash.
p.5 #6 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
You know you're a sports photographer when you wrap your ankles and shoes as much as the players ... to prevent the rubber pellets from the FieldTurf getting into your shoes.
p.5 #7 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
Fireman Rich wrote:
I was told this by a mom at one of my daughter's softball games.
"Cameras are so good now a days that anybody can take good pictures!!!!!!!"
Rightttttttttttttt!!!! You keep telling yourself that lady. Had another mom ask me for some help with her camera settings. She proceeds to tell me the following:
"I'm pretty good at photography, and I usually get some great pics. I just don't know how to set my camera up!!!!!!!!" WTF!!!!!!!
During the LL baseball season, I have permission (from the commisioner) to be on the filed during play for any game that I have been hired to shoot by one of the teams.
The last game I covered I had a mom yell at me "GET OFF THE FIELD GET OFF THE FIELD!!!!!!!!!! THE UMPIRE WILL STOP THE GAME!!!!!!!"
During innings I explained to her that I have permission to be on the field. She just walked away.
Parents are absolutly amazing. I now only shoot my daughter and nephews. If its soooooooo easy lets see them create the images. I deliver all prints to my brother of his sons at the field so that the other parents can see the quality that I produce. I just snicker when I hear comments like "why don't mine look like that!!!!!!"...Show more →
That's really the truth as parents don't know how long you spent with your gear.
What a great sharing from the sports photography and your guys
p.5 #8 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
*When you know before a match which players will give you the best shots.
*When you can almost cry for joy when you see a team actually have numbers on the front of their tops that you can read.
*when folks laugh at you coming out to the pitch in the sunshine in your rain gear, and you get to laugh at half time as they run for their cars in the lashing rain.
p.5 #9 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
mervifwdc wrote:
*When you know before a match which players will give you the best shots.
*When you can almost cry for joy when you see a team actually have numbers on the front of their tops that you can read.
*when folks laugh at you coming out to the pitch in the sunshine in your rain gear, and you get to laugh at half time as they run for their cars in the lashing rain.
Super thread!
Merv.
I've had all 3 of those happen at matches I've been at.
p.5 #11 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
bryenf wrote:
Your "junk" shots make it up to your online store and sell better the shot that got 4 pages of "sweet" feeeback on FM
Ditto.....I'm amazed at what some parents will buy!
I get the "can you see the moon with that" and "what TV station are you with" most often.
...when the ref runs down the field and calls you by your first name.
...when the trainer comes to you for some tape.
...when you look forward to reading this thread each day!
p.5 #13 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
Wow, you really know how to win friends and get along with people. Way to insult a whole group.
h_2_o wrote:
this one happened to me recently, actually a few days ago.
an administrator for the school i was at said no bounce flash for indirect lighting, but at the same time they allow their 30+ friends to use their point ans shoot flashes right on the sidelines. sometimes highschool admins are the dumbest idiots ever.
p.5 #16 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
When a parent comes up and says "I printed some of the photos off your
website, but they have that writing on them. It says Sample Photo or
something, but they still look pretty good"!
p.5 #19 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
so true!
best I've seen is where they use a camera phone to shoot a picture of their kid on my web site as they cannot download the watermarked image. And then they show me their work, all chuffed with themselves.
It usually qualifies their kid to get a picture sent to the paper being tacked or goofing up next time I'm covering a game with them in it. Who says we cannot have a little fun :-)
Joe Tompkins wrote:
When a parent comes up and says "I printed some of the photos off your
website, but they have that writing on them. It says Sample Photo or
something, but they still look pretty good"!
p.5 #20 · You Might be a Sports Photographer When...
... when you're walking down the hallway in school, on your way to see the AD, and greet the kid approaching you with, "Hey, 84 - because you don't know his name."
