Amami Superman Photography

So yesterday was my daughter's field day. In Japanese they call it "undoukai". It's a pretty big event all the way up through high school. All the families of the children come out to watch and eat lunch with everyone. I want to get better at taking action shots so I pretty much photographed everybody during the race portions of the field day.

Today's post is of some 4th graders running the 100 meters (about 100m I think). The reason for posting these shots is the kid on the far left of the photo; he really looks like he's giving it his all. Sort of like a young Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid. The facial expressions are priceless.

Congratulations Mr. Kubo for a well ran race! "久保" or "Kubo" is his family name and is written on his gym uniform.

So that's one of a few posts of my daughter's field day. I was having trouble with my camera. I wanted to set it to Aperture Priority for f/4.0 at 55mm and have the camera Auto Expose for the ISO and shutter speed, but for some reason, it kept the shutter speed very slow and a lot of the photos were blown out. I ended up putting it on manual and shooting. It's most likely operator error so I'll need to figure out what I was doing wrong.

Some of the photos are a bit out of focus. I had my camera set to Auto Focus Continuous so this maybe just a bit of motion blur. I think a shutter speed of 1/200 sec would have been a better choice.