The right decision?
After enduring a wet, cold evening of shooting football in Peshastin last Friday, I downloaded my images and had a closer look at the picture I had intended using in Saturday’s sports cover. It was a shot of the Cascade defensive coach celebrating another one of Chelan’s fumbles and Cascade’s recoveries. On the camera’s screen, the image looked pretty interesting and surprisingly sharp but in the computer, there was some motion blur that made me nervous about putting it on B1.
I thought the image was very telling and fit the pandemonium of the Cascade sidelines as they took the lead in the game.
But I had this image of one of the actual fumbles that caused the turnaround in the game.
It’s such a sharp image, and one that conveys the feeling of the game - how Chelan let the lead and the game slip away - that I thought we should run it instead.
I was hoping that the picture of the coach would be used as a jump or secondary photograph but tight space in the section knocked it off.
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What great pictures! I don’t look at them in the paper…sorry!..but I do online. I can just feel the agony the fumbler must be in as he realizes what happened. And the joy of the coach and the Kodiaks? I used to be there, cheering them on when I had family on the team. I miss that sometimes.
Which do you like better? I’m still wondering because the coach’s reaction is such an unusual picture to capture and it does tell a lot about the game but the fumble is a classic image. I go back and forth on this one.
For the first time in years, I went to my first football game as a spectator last night to watch Eastmont’s homecoming game with my son, Aaron. It was a thrilling game and I had a great time with him but I missed being on the sidelines.
It’s difficult to make a choice. Together, side-by-side, they are a sort of “The Agony and The Ecstasy”. I like the appearance of the fumble picture best; it is so clear and well-balanced, and you can see the whole story in the one shot.
Your reasoning is the same as the sports writers whom I had look over the two images and give me their opinions.