The perspective from the floor is probably the most popular sports photography view, for both stills (left) and motion/pan blur (below).
An alternative setup is across the floor, from an elevation, to catch the judges’ reactions at the Balance Beam, below. Modern sports arenas, such as GW’s Smith Center, usually offer many good viewing options.
Color
Balance is something I work on to make these pictures look their best, but if
you want to skip a short demo about that technical subject, go to
for a
gallery of 154 pictures featuring the GW team at the Lindsey Ferris meet.
After
composition, my biggest concern is color balance. The Smith Center has a variable mix of light
sources that include daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, and Mercury vapor
lamps. Each source has different (and
changing) color temperatures.
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/05/23/what-is-color-temperature-free-photography-cheat-sheet/
Mixed
lighting means it is very hard to balance the color in each image: some appear
cool (blue), others are warm(yellow/red-ish), and some are a weird green or cyan
(repulsive). Color balance is very
important in any paying job, but when I am shooting my daughter’s team for fun
I compromise and concentrate on natural looking skin tones.
A good example is this picture of Alex DeMoura
The original, on the left, looks very cool (skin tones and hair highlights). I added slight amounts of yellow and green to the image on the right . There are still problems in this correction, but overall I hope this is a noticeable improvement from the “as shot” original.
If you don't see the change I am referring to, try looking at the blurry upper right corner of the corrected version. The same area in the original is a different tone.
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