I am looking back at all my images and noticed that I never posted these images from when I photographed Athletics, and that was almost a week ago! What a slacker I am. A couple of you asked me when, and if, the exhaustion ever kicks in, and I think that is starting to happen.
I was photographing a water polo game, which is across one bridge from the Stade de France, and so I was able to make it over to Athletics two times in one day (before and after the men's water polo game). The previous blog post was from the morning and these images were taken in the evening.
I got down to the field of play just in time to catch the men's 800m run.
It was cool to be on the deck and get images of them at their level.
Then, in anticipation of Noah Lyles running the 100m, I moved up to a higher position that was straight on to the race. I caught some more action from up there.
I even did a little motion blur from the higher position.
I switched back to a faster shutter speed to capture the finish line.
Noah Lyles is not a shy guy, and was working the crowd before the start of his race.
He was jumping up and down to warm up, and I got this shot of him seemingly suspended in air. Not as good as the "suspended surfer shot" but...
And then they were off and running.
Noah Lyles easily won his heat.
He stopped to look at the scoreboard to see what his final time was. And yes, this was before he tested positive for Covid.
And then I went back down and caught some of the 4x400 mixed relay.
Team USA lead for the majority of this race.
I was hammering away at 30 frames per second every time they rounded the corner towards me, keeping my focal point on the American runner the whole time.
I noticed that the triple jump was about to start and I thought that this might be fun to photograph. And off I went.
It started to rain (once again) but this time, unlike the Opening Ceremony, it was a light rain and I liked the way it added to the photos. You may have to zoom in on these images to see it, but it looked nice.
It was fun to capture each of the athletes with their different styles of jumps.
The landings were fun to capture as well, with sand flying everywhere. For those photographers out there wondering about my camera settings, I was shooting the
Canon R1 at ISO 1600 at f/2.8 with a shutter speed of 1/2500 sec. This froze all the action.
I have to get photos of the Americans!
Towards the end, it was time for Thea LaFond (representing Dominica) who was favored to win.
She had an awesome jump, at a distance of 14.35 meters (more than 47 feet)!
She came out of the pit fired up!
I think this expression says "I just won a Gold Medal!" and there is nothing better than capturing that!
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