Tag: Sports

The New York Times’ Jeffrey Furticella gives us a really nice look at how seven photojournalists made an image of the catch everyone’s talking about. (Thanks to Cody Schmelter for the link.)

I’ve done this and it is … entertaining? Over at Pop Photo, Stan Horaczek interviews Michael Perez about covering the Detroit-Philadelphia game on Sunday. This made me laugh: For all of the first quarter and most of the second quarter it was a near whiteout. The AF was getting fooled a lot. I was trying everything. I tried matrix focus,...

… not that good. Looking at the samples, I see: Lack of sharpness Blown highlights Out of control backgrounds Loose compositions Ghosting Oversaturation So, no. It’s not there. Ten frames per second does not make a sports camera. (Thanks to Steven Sande at The Unofficial Apple Weblog for the link.)