Weekend Boxing - Cotto, Margarito and more

[muls]

Shot a couple of fight cards this weekend, just figured I'd post a few up, thanks for looking, comments and critiques welcome as always, the full Cotto-Margarito take is viewable here (as well as more on my sportsshooter page)...

http://www.boxing-pics.com/cotto_gomez/mulholland_cotto.html

April 12, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Miguel Cotto (Black w/Gray) nails Alfonso Gomez (White, Blue & Gold) with a right hand to the head during their 12 round WBA Welterweight Championship fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ.

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April 12, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Miguel Cotto (Black w/Gray) rips a left hook to the body of Alfonso Gomez (White, Blue & Gold) during their 12 round WBA Welterweight Championship fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/cotto002.jpg

April 12, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Miguel Cotto celebrates after defeating Alfonso Gomez to retain his WBA Welterweight Championship fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. Cotto won via 6th round stoppage.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/cotto004.jpg

April 12, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Antonio Margarito (Black w/Red) takes a right hand from Kermit Cintron (Gold w/Red) during their 12 round IBF Welterweight Championship fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. Margarito knocked out Cintron in the 6th round to capture the title.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/cotto008.jpg

April 11, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Jesus Soto-Karass (black trunks) takes a fight hand from Chris Smith (blue trunks) during their 10 round WBC Continental Americas Welterweight title fight at the Tropicana Showroom in Atlantic City, NJ. Soto-Karass won via unanimous decision.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/boxing002.jpg

April 11, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Jesus Soto-Karass (black trunks) lands a right hand to the head of Chris Smith (blue trunks) during their 10 round WBC Continental Americas Welterweight title fight at the Tropicana Showroom in Atlantic City, NJ. Soto-Karass won via unanimous decision.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/boxing003.jpg

April 11, 2008; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Jesus Soto-Karass (black trunks) takes a left hook from Chris Smith (blue trunks) during their 10 round WBC Continental Americas Welterweight title fight at the Tropicana Showroom in Atlantic City, NJ. Soto-Karass won via unanimous decision.

http://boxing-pics.com/images/boxing006.jpg

[stathunter]

Nice work Ed. I have been doing a lot of boxing work and can appreciate what you captured. Good job.

[DwightMcCann]

They look a little warm and a little saturated but are your hallmark sharp and timely captures! I have a card on May 2nd. Any reason for pointing to FightNews rather than FightWireImages?

[stathunter]

Ed,
By the way---have you done any MMA work. I did my first recently and have another coming up in a few weeks--I was not happy with MMA. I hated trying to shoot through the cage---and could only use the tiny little video platform for a shot while.
Anyone have secrets for MMA work?

[TheHoff]

WOW, phenomenal.. Some of the best boxing shots I've seen. Maybe I don't see enough but these are just fantastic. The color, sharpness, and most importantly, timing are all right on.

[muls]

Saturation is a bit higher than usual, but liked the look. The last 3 I pushed the speed to 3200 because the lighting was so poor I needed it to get to 400th of a second...I linked to fightnews because there were more images there to see and no watermarks, no other reason...

I do shoot plenty of UFC, in fact I leave for Montreal in a couple of days to cover UFC 83 for ESPN...No real secrets for shooting through the cage other than I rely on my 70-200 more than my 24-70, lighting is usually poor, and the real key is you need to be able to manual focus and not rely on your autofocus...

Ed

[DwightMcCann]

Yup, 24-70mm f/2.8L on one 1DMIII and 70-200mm f/.28L IS on the other. I use AF when I can and MF if it just isn't snapping in due to the cage ... strains my eyes! I tried shooting with just 24-70 as with boxing but it just doesn't get the job done. I can't imagine shooting MMA with a single body anymore.

[ironbelle]

Ed,
Nice action shots Ed. That's great ESPN keeps you busy. That's one of my goals for this year - to get at least one day rate gig to shoot a fight. I'm starting to do more "high profile" fights which was another goal I set for this year.

[Dandy_1]

Fantastic shots Ed, I aspire to be a good as you!
Dani

[muls]

Thank you for the comments...