I've posted photos in my SmugMug photo gallery:
Boxing - KenDePreePhotos' Photos | SmugMug
This was my first experience and I learned a lot. I went to the November, 2012, evemt but had a camera malfunction during the first round so didn't get any experience that night.
Photographing boxers is difficult. You have to deal with light which may be very bright in the center of the ring but less so near the ropes. So if you adjust the camera so you don't over expose when the fighters are in the center of the ring, then they will be in darkness, so to speak, when near the ropes.
Additionally, you have the ropes to contend with. When you are following the fighters, trying to keep them in focus, you often pass over a rope, which causes the camera to focus on the rope instead. This means the fighters are likely to be blurred.
Additionally, the colors may not look good because of the light.
Then there is the movement of the fighters and trying to keep both properly framed in the view finder.
Finally, there is the referee who is moving with the fighters, sometimes blocking your view of them.
I was shooting in what they call continuous shooting or burst, meaning that as long as your finger in on the shutter button the camera keeps clicking up to the maximum allowed by the particular model you have.
I was also shooting in RAW, rather than jpeg. The advantage is that all the data is preserved so you can do much more correcting in post processing than when using jpeg. The disadvantage is the files are much larger and you can shoot considerably fewer in burst mode than when using jpeg (or jpg).
I took more than 1000 shots and posted just 20 in my gallery after weeding out the clinches (there were a great many) and those that were not usable. To get the 20, I converted many to black and white. if the color was bad, for example, but the action was of interest I converted it to B&W. I don't see that as a problem, however, because at least in some cases I think the scene is more powerful than it would have been in color, even good color.
But take a look. I hope you find the photos of interest.
Boxing - KenDePreePhotos' Photos | SmugMug
This was my first experience and I learned a lot. I went to the November, 2012, evemt but had a camera malfunction during the first round so didn't get any experience that night.
Photographing boxers is difficult. You have to deal with light which may be very bright in the center of the ring but less so near the ropes. So if you adjust the camera so you don't over expose when the fighters are in the center of the ring, then they will be in darkness, so to speak, when near the ropes.
Additionally, you have the ropes to contend with. When you are following the fighters, trying to keep them in focus, you often pass over a rope, which causes the camera to focus on the rope instead. This means the fighters are likely to be blurred.
Additionally, the colors may not look good because of the light.
Then there is the movement of the fighters and trying to keep both properly framed in the view finder.
Finally, there is the referee who is moving with the fighters, sometimes blocking your view of them.
I was shooting in what they call continuous shooting or burst, meaning that as long as your finger in on the shutter button the camera keeps clicking up to the maximum allowed by the particular model you have.
I was also shooting in RAW, rather than jpeg. The advantage is that all the data is preserved so you can do much more correcting in post processing than when using jpeg. The disadvantage is the files are much larger and you can shoot considerably fewer in burst mode than when using jpeg (or jpg).
I took more than 1000 shots and posted just 20 in my gallery after weeding out the clinches (there were a great many) and those that were not usable. To get the 20, I converted many to black and white. if the color was bad, for example, but the action was of interest I converted it to B&W. I don't see that as a problem, however, because at least in some cases I think the scene is more powerful than it would have been in color, even good color.
But take a look. I hope you find the photos of interest.