Photography

People not understanding gear restraints in surprise situations. I'm not bringing all my gear to a shoot.

I had to shoot an award ceremony that was a surprise to me during a huge youth sports tournament. It had been raining that day so the podium, seating, backdrop and pa system was set up under a pavillion. We were only supposed to shoot the winner of every bracket which turned into photos of the other finishers as well. No problem except for the later games were finishing as the sun was creeping away and the pavilion roof was blocking the field lights, leaving a light/dark line on the players. I shot the last team at 1.8 f200 iso10000 and printed a 5x7 to be inserted in a plaque. I was handling lining up the kids, shooting, swaping cards, making sure the plaque was in the picture and changing a cloroplast banner out denoting finalist/champion. I didn't get a plaque back on that last shot since there's like 50 people all crammed up under this pavilion and people are trying to get prints. My fault. The guy with the plague found us breaking down and I located the print. He was like why does it look so bad.

I just had to take it on the chin and said I did my best with the conditions I had. I could have explained the whole thing. But that just sounds like jargon and excuses to most people.

The funny thing is I showed earlier proofs to the team parents earlier that day and they wasn't interested then, which I understand when you youtrying to watch your kids game. But they didn't say anything about the quality then and it was the best overcast soft box lighting of the day.