{"id":2928,"date":"2007-09-30T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/30\/the-perfect-light-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T14:37:54","slug":"the-perfect-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/30\/the-perfect-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Light."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/68.media.tumblr.com\/2bd6a89380ffa61bff98cf3642e306df\/tumblr_inline_nzrnagPIsX1r4otob_540.jpg?w=762\" alt=\"image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Whoever said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153timing is everything\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in sports photography left out the other important part: lighting. This post will be of little interest to most people, but for students of photography or those looking to learn more about sports photography, I hope you find it of interest.<\/p>\n<p>One aim of sports photography is to isolate your subject. Typically that is done through depth-of-field, namely a shallow one. You keep your subject in focus, but objects 2 to 3 feet in front of the athlete are out focus. Depth of field (DOF) is determined by three main things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The focal length of the lens used. All things being equal, longer focal lengths leads to a more shallow DOF.<\/li>\n<li>Distance to the camera to the subject. The closer the subject is to the camera, all things being equal, the more shallow the DOF.<\/li>\n<li>The aperture or f\/stop. All things being equal, as the lens is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opened up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (moves towards f\/1) the DOF becomes more shallow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But light can also be used in to isolate a subject. In this case, a sports photographer has to be lucky but also has to be able to spot the chances where the perfect lighting can be had.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo from Carter-Finley Stadium, home of the North Carolina State Wolfpack Football team. There is about an 8 minute window on the field when the sun is low enough that Vaughn Towers cast a shadow over the field and stands, but there is a sliver of light that cuts through the openings where the exits are. It lets in just a tad of light over a very small part of the field, but if you can get a picture of a play in this light, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just perfect:<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/68.media.tumblr.com\/fab08804d261f642777f422014eb5941\/tumblr_inline_nzrna5yxFO1r4otob_540.jpg?w=762\" alt=\"image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153timing is everything\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in sports photography left out the other important part: lighting. This post will be of little interest to most people, but for students of photography or those looking to learn more about sports photography, I hope you find it of interest. One aim of sports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.accphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}