GOLFF

ISO: 400 f/4.0 shutter speed: 1/1250

ISO: 400  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/800

ISO: 400 f/4.0 shutter speed: 1/800

ISO: 400  f/4.0  shutter speed: 1/640

ISO: 400 f/4.0 shutter speed: 1/1000

          I FINALLY GOT TO SHOOT GOLF. Yay. But, I chose a bad, terrible day for it. It was windy and cold and did I mention windy? Yeah, well it was really windy. I froze my butt off out there. At one point Smith had texted me and I was trying to respond but I couldn't because my fingers were so cold I couldn't type. This had made me realize something when it comes to photography and how well I can handle situations. I can handle awkward, dangerous, sad, happy, hot, rainy, under pressure, in a time crunch, etc., etc., but the one thing I can't handle is the miserable cold if I don't have enough clothing to keep me warm. In this situation I become a wimp almost instantly. I got out there and the minute I couldn't feel my fingers all I wanted was to go inside. I looked down at my watch and I had 2 hours left out there. That made me want to crawl in a hole and die. I seriously didn't know how I was going to survive that. Like I said, I can handle a lot but when it comes to the cold I become a mega wimp. And I am not proud of that at all, but it's true.

          So, I took the 7 and I brought Bigma, but was too cold to try and carry that thing around so I used the 70-200mm. (Once again, I'm not good at handling cold). Anyways, the last one of Dawson and the middle picture are the same concept. They have to read the greens and get their ball lined up and since they do this all the time I thought I needed a picture of that. Golf is a very quiet sport so it's hard to always get the ball in it because you have to wait til after they hit the ball to press the shutter so you don't mess up their concentration. That's why I got the shots of them reading the greens and lining up their ball. Putting is the other easy shot to get, which I put one on here. The shot of the guy chipping is ok, the one thing that I don't like about it is that the ball is there but it doesn't stand out that much. It bothers me and with golf it's hard to get a picture where the ball really stands out since it's white and really small. Since it's winter, the grass was not a very pretty green and it was also cloudy adding to the not very pretty color, but oh well that's what I had to work with.