Under One Flag
By: Gustav Hoiland
Category: boxing
| Aperture: | f/1.6 |
|---|---|
| Focal Length: | 50mm |
| ISO: | 3200 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
Walk, walk, walkwalkwalkwalk, photophotophoto, eat, walk walk walk. Verbs of a day. Circuitous routes around Boston, then the hard-hitting circular dances within the ring.
Every couple of months there’s an amateur fight night at a local gym that a friend introduced me to. A dozen bouts in the ring, accompanied by one frantic gus trying to figure out how best to photograph the action (or the surrounding scene).
How do I photograph an excellent jab, when not even the opponent can detect in that hundredth of a second whether or not a fist will be coming his way? In a strange way, all of the best photos obscured from my sight exactly their greatness at capture. Anytime I clicked the shutter and just missed seeing something, that’s when that something had happened in that fractional timescape when the something occured. Or something.
To rest.
Gustav Hoiland 
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