Tech Monday: Things change – Things stay the same………

Thanks to my friend Donn Jones, team photographer of the Tennessee Titans, Ricky Skaggs and I got to shoot their game yesterday in Nashville, with the Washington Redskins. The last time I shot and NFL game I was using a film camera and manual focus 400 f 3.5 lens! Wow, how things have changed. The gear we enjoy today insure a lot more tack sharp images. But of what?

In the first quarter I was pretty rusty and got a lot of really well exposed, tack sharp images of nothing in particular. My timing and sense of movement was way off. Not to make excuses but it has been almost 35 years since my last NFL game……. I am in awe of the great work today’s sport shooters do, even though the technology is far better, you still have to know the game and prepare for that decisive moment, and then capture it! I got a little better as the game went on, maybe.

Well, I guess I’ve still got a lot of rust to knock off, but at least I caught a few. Great fun, great fellowship, great technology, and a great day!

Slip, Slidin’ Away – Moss has a potential, game winning touchdown slip through his hands.

the pilgrim

*Photo Notes: All images D3s and D7000, 200-400 AFS VR II, and the new 28-300 AFS VR. If you can’t tell which are which, don’t feel bad, neither can I, without looking at the EXIF data.