Meeting 3

9.22.16

From the hours of: 5-7:30

I attended another junior varsity and varsity soccer game and continued to use my camera that my mentor gave me. However, this time I used a different lens (my mothers) which had a larger zoom than the lens my mentor gave me. During this game, I continued to take more action shots and candid shots of the players throughout the entire game. I still had to work with the lighting at this game, as it (of course) got darker as time went on. At this game, I started to toy with custom white balance which is a setting on the camera. The white balance settings (sometimes) help out with the awkward lighting that can be in the pictures. Even though I was only a beginner at white balance, it still proved helpful throughout the game in my photos. The white balance helps with the fact that the overhead lights on the field are not natural lighting so the white balance adjusts it to make it look more natural rather than fake and fluorescent. The lighting in this game was definitely worse, however. This is because it got darker earlier and made it harder to catch action shots. At this game I walked around and got different angles, some from the home side, some from the away side, and then some from the end-zones. All in all, I do think that the 2.5 hours that I spent at this game were a success, as I took a ton of pictures and continued to experiment with the lighting and white balance!