Met a video guy who produces a boxing show, and he gave me a pass. I've never shot this sort of thing before:
http://www.bigdayphoto.com/BB1003 Man, this stuff is hard to shoot! Pretty much shot f/2.8 at 1600 the whole night....I had meant to take a meter reading and get the color temp before I started, but traffic prevented me from getting there early, and then it got hectic, and then these scantily clad women came out...so, I have some noisy pics, and the color isn't 100%. I'm not getting paid for this, so I'm not going to spend any time fixing them up... Even with a ringside pass, it's really hard to position yourself. Ideally you want to lean a bit under the bottom rope, but the height of the ring and the width of the apron made it a little tough on me considering my height. It was hard to find any position to keep the camera steady...I noted the two veteran boxing photographers there were short. I think I started to get my bearings towards the end, the pics from the last bout have a few keepers. I was very sore this a.m. The guy who runs this thing says at some point it will be broadcast into 25 million homes. You'll be happy to know that once it got warm in there I took off my sweater to reveal my Pentax t-shirt, so keep an eye out. BTW, I have a few, ah, gratuitous, ring girl shots. If you want to see them, email me off list. tv -- Thomas Van Veen Photography www.thomasvanveen.com 301-758-3085
