Taking Pictures at the pool events

[mortuarymike-nv]

I would like to take some pictures at some of the events and I don't want to be a distraction.

My best camera canon 5dmk 2 has a loud shutter noise. I have a 100 to 400 lens so I can be 40 yards away and still get a good picture.
I have other lenses too.
So my thoughts were to not take any pictures off the pros while they are playing a set
and asking if I could photograph them before or after their game.
Or being far enough away that they cannot here the shutter release on my camera

I will not be firing any flash units off until the matches are over.

Any advise would be helpful.


MMike

 

[JCIN]

My rule is always wait till they make contact with the ball before you shoot. I never hit the shutter when a guy is down on the ball in his pre shot routine. Other than that IMO its anything goes.

Some advice I got from magazine editor about shooting pool has stuck with me "All of the interesting things happen after the shot. Not before." There are a blue million pictures of every player on earth down on a ball. Good shots are something thats different and show emotion or tell a story. They are not easy to get in pool for many reasons the main one being lighting almost always sucks.

Having that 100-400 will give you a lot of options but good quality fast lenses at 2.8 or faster is what will become your go to lens. The 5D MK2 is a gangster camera so you may be able to jack up the ISO without killing the photo with noise. If thats the case the slower lenses can work.

 

[bflgvs]

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...Some advice I got from magazine editor about shooting pool has stuck with me "All of the interesting things happen after the shot. Not before." There are a blue million pictures of every player on earth down on a ball. Good shots are something thats different and show emotion or tell a story. They are not easy to get in pool for many reasons the main one being lighting almost always sucks. ...

...Some advice I got from magazine editor about shooting pool has stuck with me "All of the interesting things happen after the shot. Not before." There are a blue million pictures of every player on earth down on a ball. Good shots are something thats different and show emotion or tell a story. They are not easy to get in pool for many reasons the main one being lighting almost always sucks....

Justin, that's a very good suggestion. Waaaay back in the '70's in my photojournalism class was given the assignment to go the the school's horticulture center and take a photo and to process it and then be in class at 3pm to be graded.

Well, I didn't see one thing that was really interesting to shoot. In class I watched as other students presented their photos. They were all good but pretty much the same, people holding plants, planting them, etc.

When it was my turn I was a little self conscious because mine seemed, to me, to be a little off base. My photo was of a young woman holding a snail way up in the air with a really disgusting look on her face. As it turned out my photo was given the best in class award for that assignment.

That was a lesson I will never forget.

 

[mortuarymike-nv]

lenses

My rule is always wait till they make contact with the ball before you shoot. I never hit the shutter when a guy is down on the ball in his pre shot routine. Other than that IMO its anything goes.

Some advice I got from magazine editor about shooting pool has stuck with me "All of the interesting things happen after the shot. Not before." There are a blue million pictures of every player on earth down on a ball. Good shots are something thats different and show emotion or tell a story. They are not easy to get in pool for many reasons the main one being lighting almost always sucks.

Having that 100-400 will give you a lot of options but good quality fast lenses at 2.8 or faster is what will become your go to lens. The 5D MK2 is a gangster camera so you may be able to jack up the ISO without killing the photo with noise. If thats the case the slower lenses can work.

I have other lenses and a one canon t3i as a back up.

85mm1.8
50mm1.8
tse 24.mm 1.3
tse 17mm 1.3
8 mm fish eye
70 - 210
ef 10 22 .
TC 1.3.

and ex 580 mk 2

I like the 85mm 1.8 and the 10-22 . for photographing people at closer distance .

I don't know if I want to walk around with two cameras .
I was thinking of one camera body 5 d mk 2
the 100 to 400 lens and the 85mm 1.8 prime.
MMike