MMA Photography from MN

listen here snappy I wear the pants in the family when my wifes not home

Did you notice the serious vignetting in all the shots?

Pretty awesome pictures. Were you ringside pressing the lens against the fence? I need to talk to the local MMA organizers and see if I can get a ringside seat next event.

Awesome Shots.

These are great shots - how did you get around shooting "through" the cage? The last time I tried that, I got alot of crappy shots with chain links in them

I like number 7.

I am shooting ShoXC this Friday. The cage has a wide platform which does make it really tough. The first two I shot the same way I do boxing with one body with 24-70mm f/2.8 but this time I'm going to use two 1DMIII's, one with 24-70 and one with 70-200mm f/2.8L IS ... the longer lens it to try to get through the cage better.

Thanks for weighing in, Dwight. You are yet another photographer I'm jealous of. I guess you could say Minneapolis, for all it's glory, isn't a prime area to make a living at combat sports photography, though I can't complain, because most guys (and gals) shooting on the regional level don't make a dime doing it.

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Thanks for weighing in, Dwight. You are yet another photographer I'm jealous of. I guess you could say Minneapolis, for all it's glory, isn't a prime area to make a living at combat sports photography, though I can't complain, because most guys (and gals) shooting on the regional level don't make a dime doing it.

PM is in your box. Just remember that I am 62 and didn't have any success with photography until I was 59.

You are an inspiration. Thanks again.

I will be going to the casino this afternoon to check on the cage and probably shoot the weigh-ins and maybe some of the fighters. I will try to add a blog entry with pictures of the folks milling around the boxing commissioner's table or whatever. Everyone gets to see pictures of the cage/ring during the fights but nothing of the 'smell of the grease paint!' Link to my blog is in my .sig.

I just updated my blog from the weigh-ins yesterday if anyone is interested ... see .sig for URL.

Sweet. I look forward to seeing the fight pictures themselves if you're up to posting them.

Very nice! I will be uploading my ShoXC Elite Challengers series images from Friday to FightWireImages today so expect them to be available tomorrow and will try to post a link here. The lighting director managed to get extra good lighting on the cage itself so all the links were nice and shiny bright making AF a nightmare, sigh.

Update: My linkage to FightWireImages is down so there's gonna be a delay, sigh.

dwight funny you should say that.... I shot cagefest 3 last nite here in Hampton Va. they were horrible bummed me out all day. if you don't mind snap i would like to post a pic and have you and dwight help me if you would.