l3rewski
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If you say it believe it. For now. . Random question. Share your thoughts on equipment, placement, luck involved, etc. on how the awesome North TD catch was captured. Useless thought: I caught a pretty cool shot of the moment of impact catch that DaRick made when he got sandwiched vs Cincy. Of course it was with my phone up by the jumbotron, but I was still pretty proud of my shot. Haha.
There's always luck involved with sports photography, but it's usually combined with good preparation. Jim Brown got that shot with an old school technique where you hang a camera around your neck with a wide-angle lens. You pre-focus the lens to a few feet inside the endzone so when the moment comes, the AF won't have to hunt a very long distance. Once you practice it enough, you can become very fast at bringing the camera on target. It's not as easy as it sounds though, especially if you're juggling a 400 or 600mm in your other hand.
It's one of those once in a blue moon shots that every sports photographer would love to capture.