BEST SPORTS PHOTO 18 ENTRIES
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2 1 Haliburton County Echo
Darren Lum’s basketball action capture in the paint finished first. Player facial expression and good peak action won it for him. Tight capture too, filling the frame.
Ottawa Community Voice, West Carleton
Runner-up went to a rodeo scene taken by Erin McCracken. Having shot a lot of rodeo in Alberta, this is a sport that always provides shooters with great action. However, needed to run this photo vertically, to make it snap. Crop out the right side cowboy in DOF, and give the horse his feet, to show the viewer the cowboy coming off and the ground below. Focus is looked after in this capture, with DOF.
GENERAL COMMENT What’s happening with our photographers when it comes to covering sports action? Fill the frame. Find the peak action. If you are outdoors, make use of depth of field. This was a disappointing category based on the submissions, although very close among the top three placings. Remember – sports is about action – so let your camera tell the story of what you are focusing, whether in an indoor or an outdoor environment.
ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
Judge
Voice of Pelham
Another good action capture. Facial expression, the Michael Jordon tongue, added to the image on the drive to the basket and helped Bernie Puchalski garner third spot.
Jules Xavier
Editor Shilo Stag CFB Shilo, MB
It has been 37 years since editor Lorne Drury (now retired) offered him his first reporter job at the Brampton Guardian, and he is still going like the Energizer Bunny. A ‘59 baby, Xavier is still having fun at 62, so there’s no thought of retirement just yet. Perhaps after the Stag celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2023. Currently in Manitoba looking after the award-winning army newspaper Shilo Stag, which published its first edition in July 1947, he’s kept busy in a two-person newsroom which focuses on army life, including infantry 2PPCLI and artillery 1RCHA soldiers. Xavier has been with the Stag for nine years, relocating from Vancouver Island following newspaper and radio jobs in Ontario, B.C., and Alberta. Being embedded among soldiers who are honing their fighting skills for deployment to Ukraine or Latvia is a lot more fun than covering school board or city council meetings.
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