I’ve never photographed a game before where both teams were named the same. Until tonight.
I had an opportunity this evening to photograph prep football under familiar conditions—mercury vapor lights. Being able to shoot high-speed black & white, push it in development was always a better way for me to get action than using flash. While sometimes necessary, flash has the unfortunate side-effect of destroying the mood. I do my best to avoid relying on it.
I shot at 3200 and used the PRE white balance setting on the Nikon D300. It cleaned up the color considerably. The grass looks perhaps a tad too yellow but that’s the saturated results I’m getting from this camera even on the standard setting. I often will split my time shooting both in front of the play as well as behind. Once in a while you get a great sack, a pass reception or in this case an interception. The defender juggled the ball as the two players crashed to the ground and managed to hang on to take over possession.
