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08/01/2007 02:48:17 AM · #1 |
So, did anyone watch the Dodgers/Giants baseball game tonight? Barry Bonds was set to tie the all-time career home run record and the photographers were out in full force.
The TV station that I was watching showed a huge cluster of DSLRs on the third-base line, waiting to get a shot of Bonds. I was at a bar and couldn't hear the commentators or what the cluster was all about. At first I thought they were all wired together and their shutters were all remotely controlled. There must have been a twenty cameras that looked like they were glued together! I never found out what the deal was. :-( Any ideas, anyone?
Oh, and by the way, everyone one of the cameras was a Canon! Which reminds me of this thread about Canons (not Nikons) being used at professional sporting events.
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08/01/2007 03:12:30 AM · #2 |
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08/01/2007 12:22:30 PM · #3 |
So, how can that many photogs get behind each of those cameras at once? Or are they all remote controlled?
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08/01/2007 12:28:56 PM · #4 |
The Giants' announcers said that they were set up to be triggered by remotes. A funny story was that one time last week, one of them had a camera rigged in the press box, and they were quite startled to hear it suddenly go off in burst mode ...
However, the pile of cameras they showed near the end of the game, in the first-base photographer's area, were possibly just stacked out of the way, as Bonds was out of the game at that point, and the photographers may have gone to sit down for a while. |
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08/01/2007 12:55:24 PM · #5 |
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08/01/2007 12:59:37 PM · #6 |
| The cameras must have been on steroids or something. :-) |
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08/01/2007 01:01:12 PM · #7 |
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08/01/2007 01:03:10 PM · #8 |
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08/01/2007 01:07:43 PM · #9 |
Wonder how much money there is in that picture...
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08/01/2007 01:18:25 PM · #10 |
| I wish Bonds would drown himself in the cove. I can't think of a worse thing for sports than that man. |
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08/01/2007 01:40:02 PM · #11 |
I don't get how they can use such long lenses remotely. There's even some 300 2.8's on the bottom there... how can they compose a shot when it's locked down on a tripod, and how can they know when the player comes into the frame? Is it locked on a base and set up to get the height of a player in the frame, maybe?
Are those wheel things with a tripod head screw custom made, or a production thing? I want one.. |
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08/01/2007 01:53:35 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by MadMan2k:
I don't get how they can use such long lenses remotely. There's even some 300 2.8's on the bottom there... how can they compose a shot when it's locked down on a tripod, and how can they know when the player comes into the frame? Is it locked on a base and set up to get the height of a player in the frame, maybe? |
Well, the photogs are after one known subject--Bonds. They know in intimate detail his height, his position in the batter's box, etc. I would think that the cameras are set to manual focus and then pre-focused. Each photographer probably has more than one camera in the cluster, in addition to one (or two) around their neck for the "manual" shot.
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08/01/2007 03:55:57 PM · #13 |
| I saw a video somewhere where a sports photog has more than one camera set on pocket wizards, so that he can shoot a wider angle shot of the scene with one camera and have a tighter shot with another. The pocket wizard is somehow triggered by the shutter of one camera and fires the shutter of the other camera at the same time. So the photog shoots the action and gets two shots for the price of one. I saw one where the guy was at a rideo and buried a wide angle lens in the ground with the PW and he shot the rodeo shooting from the "normal" spots then had these unbelievable angles of the bull and rider coming out of the gate. |
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