Sports assignment

Sports Assignment

Due: Finals week (or, for extra credit, hand in at last one-on-one meeting)
Specifics:
• Five of your best shots from one sporting event
• Captions for each
• Handed in digitally (USB drive, CD, Flickr, etc.)

You can shoot sports for your News Event assignments, but use your best for this one.

Ideas:
DMACC Bears basketball (they play in Boone)
Iowa Energy
Des Moines Buccaneers
Drake or ISU basketball
iCubs (there is a nice string of home games April 8-15)
State wrestling tournament

You'll need to get a media pass for all of these except the DMACC Bears. How to get a media pass:

Call the media relations office for the team.
You can either say you are a freelance photojournalist or a photojournalism student and you're interested in a media pass. They will take your name and usually just leave the pass at the ticket window. I hope to arrange passes for the iCubs.. when we get closer I will take names for that.

Other tips:
• Try to figure out if there are any stars on the team and try to focus on them throughout the game. Watch for interesting interactions with the referees or the bench, or any interesting characters in the crowd.
• Put your camera in aperture priority -- if you don't have a lot of light, set it to the smallest f-stop number. This will automatically give you the fastest shutter speed available.
• If you can help it, avoid going over 800 ISO, but pick a higher ISO and faster shutter speed over slower shutter speed and lower ISO.
• Flashes are usually prohibited, although if they are allowed (ask media relations) you can dial down the power to add some fill light.
• For all games… STAY SAFE! This means for the iCubs, always stay down in the media dugout during the pitch. There will be at least one foul ball per game that will zoom straight at you. For basketball games, if you are under the basket, just be aware that players might come crashing in to you.