Shooting Swimming For the First Time This Season

It has come to that time of the season where the winter sports are starting to coincide with the fall sports. The weather feels like it should be happening, and it is. I spent most of the morning today shooting the large swim meet at the aquatic center on campus. I don’t shoot swimming very often, but I have a few things that I look for every meet. Swimming is another sport that I really had never been around until last season. I don’t get many opportunities to shoot it, but I try and make the most out of all of them. I walked away from the meet today very happy with my results. Of course now that I have gotten used to swimming I have a volleyball shoot tonight.

A Lucky Accident

During the 500m races I usually play the shutter speed game. I keep going down and down until I can’t get a usable image anymore. I had some fun with that again today, and then did a quick pivot to shoot a diver coming off the board. Of course I didn’t change my settings, and I was way too slow for anything good. Unless you look at the left eye. That is the only thing really in focus, and it just shows you the weird pivot that he was on.