The owner/instructor at the big Taekwondo dojo on Main Street wasn’t
really making it easy for me to photograph a class for my daily
assignment, so I went to Merced MMA, a mixed martial arts studio also on
Main Street. After going one day and introducing myself, they told me
to come back the next day so they would had a chance to talk with the
management. In the end, they were much more cooperative!
I’ve always enjoyed making sports pictures, though mine are of the
more standard action variety than anything truly unique or interestingly
different. Getting the lacrosse picture was relatively easy, mostly
because the player was running drills and not zooming all over the
field, and it was outside, so I had plenty of light so I could both stop
down and speed up. Merced MMA is in a former car dealership, so it’s
all
windows, but the class I wanted to photograph was at night, so natural
light wasn’t a consideration, so I’m all the way open and relatively
slow for action.
I’m also trying to use the 85mm (127.5mm) more, but long, clean lines
of sight were hard to come by, and trying to shoot really tightly on
sports action requires more skill than I currently have. So I used both
lenses, which includes the 25.5-75mm zoom.
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