Mother Nature has been keeping me away from the football field this season as there has been rain in the forecast for the most recent games by the local Champlain Cavaliers. In my absence, they've managed to put together an undefeated season and had already won their first play-off game. The match on Saturday, against the Rimouski Pionniers, was for a spot in the RSEQ Championship Game. I was a little torn about going because I have this terrible record when it comes to the success of the teams I end up photographing and I didn't want to be responsible for ending the Cavaliers perfect season. That thought quickly left me as I reminded 
myself that I didn't actually know anybody on the team. I figured my lack of a personal connection would be enough to keep my curse at bay, but I was getting a little bit nervous when the first half of the game ended with the Pionniers leading 6-1. The home team came to life in the second half, scoring two quick touchdowns before putting the game out of reach with another in the fourth quarter and a quick defensive touchdown off of an interception moments after that. The final score was Champlain 29 - Rimouski 12. As for the photographs, I managed to put myself in the end zone that had a nice background of tree so that there 
would be a little bit of colour in some of the photographs. I also found that my zooming and focusing was a little bit behind the speed of the game as I had two nice touchdown throws end essentially right beside me and the receiver ended up being out of focus in all of my photographs. I also failed to follow the most important rule of sport photography, that being that if you're watching the action in the viewfinder, the odds are not very good that you'll be capturing the action on your camera. I did manage to capture some of the action while I wasn't just watching. The first photograph was taken at f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 200mm. The second photograph was taken at f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 115mm and the third photograph was taken at f/5, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 200mm. Here are a few more photographs taken during the game.
myself that I didn't actually know anybody on the team. I figured my lack of a personal connection would be enough to keep my curse at bay, but I was getting a little bit nervous when the first half of the game ended with the Pionniers leading 6-1. The home team came to life in the second half, scoring two quick touchdowns before putting the game out of reach with another in the fourth quarter and a quick defensive touchdown off of an interception moments after that. The final score was Champlain 29 - Rimouski 12. As for the photographs, I managed to put myself in the end zone that had a nice background of tree so that there 
would be a little bit of colour in some of the photographs. I also found that my zooming and focusing was a little bit behind the speed of the game as I had two nice touchdown throws end essentially right beside me and the receiver ended up being out of focus in all of my photographs. I also failed to follow the most important rule of sport photography, that being that if you're watching the action in the viewfinder, the odds are not very good that you'll be capturing the action on your camera. I did manage to capture some of the action while I wasn't just watching. The first photograph was taken at f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 200mm. The second photograph was taken at f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 115mm and the third photograph was taken at f/5, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 200mm. Here are a few more photographs taken during the game.
f/5, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/5, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/5, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/5, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 142mm
f4, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 102mm
f/4, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/4, 1/1600sec, ISO 800 at 182mm
f/4, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 168mm
f/4, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/4, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 90mm
Quite a lot of photographs, but it was the only game I was going to see this year, so my camera got a good workout. Best of the luck to the Cavaliers who will be playing for the championship next weekend against Jonquiere.
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