I have been out covering our local high school’s Cross Country running team’s participation in various meets around our county and neighboring counties.
This shot is my favorite. It was taken in the late afternoon of a fall day seconds after the race start. It is deep in the redwood forest and very dark. Even with pushed ISO, I had to drag the shutter speed (slowing it down). The result was that as I panned and zoomed with the group of runners to follow them, the slow shutter speed resulted in zoomed blurs as I did slow cluster clicks. The resulting image is just as shot except for the black & white treatment – there are no effects added in post.
Sometimes you just luck out getting a great click! Also, the only runner clearly in focus in the white singlet is our school’s top male runner and the eventual race winner. Again luck, wish I could claim that I planned that but I can’t.
So… I’m pretty happy with this shot. Working with the cross country team has been my first pass at covering team sports. Learned a lot along the way but this click makes me very happy.