Football Remote Cams
Oct 19 2008
Dan and I got to the stadium a few hours early yesterday to set up some wireless remote cameras to shoot during the game. We set them up with some pocketwizards and various Bogen mounting equipment.
I used an old Digital Rebel XT with a 17-40mm f/4 at 17mm to get a tighter shot of the stadium while Dan threw a fisheye on his D2Hs. We set both our cameras on aperture priority, center weighted average, because the game started at 4:30 and would transition from a day game to a night game so we couldn’t lock down our exposures. Throughout the game, we switched off who had the transceiver to fire the cameras. I ended up putting it in my hot shoe and turning it on/off when I wanted to fire a picture; that way I could also take pictures on the field and with the wireless cameras at the same time, or I could fire it separate from my main camera.
Dan’s is so much wider and makes me wish I had a full frame camera.
Our cameras:
We set up under the scoreboard, where the two teams film their tapes. Circled in red are our cameras.
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