First boxing match on the 16th may, I need your help please guys!

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I've been asked to take some pictures for a boxing club, and theres a few fights on i'll be taking pictures of.

I'm fairly new to photography and still learning. What settings would you use for the fights? What Angles? Would I stay close to the ring or shoot from far out?

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance
 
I'm no pro but i'd be sticking fairly close to the ring.
 
Where are you based Whittie?

Can't offer any advice as I have never covered boxing myself, but if you are close enough I can lend you a flashgun and diffuser!

I have covered a couple of indoor football games and my on camera flash has never been up to the task.
 
what equipment you got to use Whittie? are you allowed to use flash?
 
I'm far from being an expert, but I have done boxing a few times with reasonable results. I use a Sigma 18-50 2.8 and try to keep the shutter speed up to around 1/250 although sometimes that is a struggle depending on the lighting. You'll need your ISO around 1600. Some referees won't allow flash which can make things more difficult. I try to shoot from under the bottom rope as much as possible. If you do use flash, I'd recommend using it off camera or you run the risk of getting a shadow from the rope across your shots. Enjoy it... it's a great sport to photograph.
 
In my former life as a TV Cameraman, I have covered boxing for Sky Sports.

No one ever wanted to be ringside, everyone always wanted to be away on the end of a long lens, for one very good reason: if you are close up ringside (and the boxers are any good), you will get covered in blood, sweat and snot from the boxers. Every Cameraman who ever did that position was always asked beforehand by the Production Company if they were upto date with their hepatitis jabs..........hate to think about a boxer who was HIV+.

You wouldn't catch me ringside for any money.
 
Slvrbck said:
Where are you based Whittie?

Can't offer any advice as I have never covered boxing myself, but if you are close enough I can lend you a flashgun and diffuser!
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That is very kind of you! But i'm based in Llandudno, North Wales. Thank you though!

fletch5 said:
what equipment you got to use Whittie? are you allowed to use flash?
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I've got a Nikon D60, Standard camera flash, 18-55 VR lens, and also a sigma 55-200 F4-5.6.

jmghart62 said:
I'm far from being an expert, but I have done boxing a few times with reasonable results. I use a Sigma 18-50 2.8 and try to keep the shutter speed up to around 1/250 although sometimes that is a struggle depending on the lighting. You'll need your ISO around 1600. Some referees won't allow flash which can make things more difficult. I try to shoot from under the bottom rope as much as possible. If you do use flash, I'd recommend using it off camera or you run the risk of getting a shadow from the rope across your shots. Enjoy it... it's a great sport to photograph.
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Thank you for that, I will be allowed flash, just not in the later rounds if it lasts that long. I'll be ringside and try to shoot from under the ropes. It'll be quite hard to get decent shots though, as i've only got standard camera flash at the moment! :( I may try and get hold of one before I go out and get the pictures.

JumboBeef said:
In my former life as a TV Cameraman, I have covered boxing for Sky Sports.

No one ever wanted to be ringside, everyone always wanted to be away on the end of a long lens, for one very good reason: if you are close up ringside (and the boxers are any good), you will get covered in blood, sweat and snot from the boxers. Every Cameraman who ever did that position was always asked beforehand by the Production Company if they were upto date with their hepatitis jabs..........hate to think about a boxer who was HIV+.

You wouldn't catch me ringside for any money.
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Former life! The boxers aren't anything worth of skysports, so i think i'll be safe! :lol:
 
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