Unlike constant-action sports such as football, volleyball and tennis, poker, as a board game, requires a number of special requirements for the pro or photography enthusiast to capture good images at an event.
A booming sport in Brazil, are there more and more poker events on Brazilian soil?Therefore, generating employment opportunities for specialized photographers in the field. With its own features and peculiarities, in this article we have separated some tips that you should keep in mind. when you stand out with the goal of poker.
- Avoid the flash? Poker is a sport that forces players to concentrate most of the time.
- Where every move can be decisive.
- Therefore.
- The photographer must be discreet.
- ” The photographer’s job in a poker room is not to get in the way.
- It must be invisible to players.
- And does the reputation of photographers matter to players?.
- Explains Marcel Rizzuto.
- Specialist in the field.
Another challenge for the photographer is to always look for places in the room with good lighting, not all events have good lighting. Always look for a background with television, will they give good light to the photographer?, says photographer Arthur Crowson.
Looking for different angles? The photographer can never be in the field of view of the event employees, and many monitor what happens at the table, with this in mind, the professional with the camera in hand must walk on eggshells during the show so as not to hinder the progress of the tournament?After all, having the attention of the event’s directors is never good.
“Creativity must be about the poker photographer’s instinct. You can’t sit back and wait for the photos to get to the same place every time. Do you have to think and dance to the music?” says Rizzuto.
Another recurring advice from professionals in the field is to use your body to your advantage, many good photos arrive with the photographer on his knees or even lying down, all looking for the best angle.
Is it essential to know the sport? Poker is a sport in which each session can last for hours, so the photographer needs to know when the action is about to happen.
Professional Fabian Grubler is an example. The photographer, who is one of the best known in this sport, closely follows poker and as little interested in shooting.
Grubler attributes the experience at events as one of his key allies when it comes to taking good photos. “It’s just a matter of capturing the moments. These moments that happen in a thousandth of a second and disappear forever. We have to anticipate them. If not” If you press the button until they arrive, it will be too late. Have I developed a method to be there before it happens?, reports the professional.
More technical advice? For Crowson, with experience in poker photography, openness is a very important aspect when capturing the best images on the table: “The aperture should be as wide as possible, and this is largely due to the need to capture as much light as possible. “explains the professional.
As for the shutter, Crowson reports that there is no need to worry too much about this detail, but if you want to capture maps in motion and in the air, it is good to adjust it.
However, if you have experience in the subject, you don’t need to worry so much about these details, as Grubler rightly says: “People have so many problems with shutter speed, openness and ISO, but for me, that’s part of who I am an m. When I enter a situation, I look around, I see how the light is reflected, how light or dark it is, what the background is like. Do I have to absorb these things automatically in seconds?.