Well, if you haven’t been looking at the flickr bar on the right side of the page, I got to go to the Columbus Crew’s home opener against Toronto FC. I have been reluctant to go to Crew games because, well, ….., errr, their level of play had just been down right awful. I plain terms, watching them made me very frustrated.
In Friday’s news paper there was an article about the Crew and Toronto FC starting a rivalry. Toronto was bringing some 2500 fans down to Columbus for the game, and the Crew have just gotten their own bran new ‘Black Hole” with three fan unions pulling off some very European style cheering. Correction, I should call it the Black and Gold Hole (The Crew’s colors). On of the cheering union’s leaders happened to by my wife’s cousin. The light bulb (or flash in my case sometimes) went off in my head. This is a great opportunity to go and do some action photography of the game and the crowds. What I got was way more than anything I could have asked for.
I went into this event with two ideas:
1) I AM A SOCCER FAN. And that is what I wanted to capture. The fan, the face paint, the flags, luckily my camera doesn’t have a mic because there was a lot of profanity flying around. But there is great enthusiasm that can be captured. The Crew won the game, so there was quite a bit of happy faces. I’m sure there will be times where there will be gloomy faces in the future,
2) I WANT TO GET SOME ACTION SHOTS. And I was greatly rewarded with a shot of the second goal (see first picture) and some other various action shots.
* NOTE: I DO NOT HAVE PRO LENSES (yet).
Crowd Shots Taken with: Tamron 17-50mm F2.8
Action Shots Taken with: Canon 73-300mm USM II F4-5.6
Check here for the entire game set.
