A question we're asked alot in the newspaper business is--'Did you get any good ones?' Usually I get asked this most at sporting events. Maybe because in many people's minds sports is a little harder than most things to photograph. That is somewhat true, but its also not. Sports happens in front of you and you just react to the action and capture what you can. In that sense its kinda easy. Nothing to set up or nothing to try to figure out the elements of the story(more on that later) you just shoot for the action. The difficulty is that most folks don't have the right equipment and their pictures tend to be darker and fuzzier as a result. Equipment is a big thing. It sorta like trying to pound a nail with set of pliers. You can do it, but the results are better if you have a hammer. Inside sports requires fast lenses with a 2.8 aperture, more megapixels and larger sensor size, high ISO settings and or a really good flash. I don't like flash because it gives unnatural light and also creates red-eye. So our 12 megapixel camera and f 2.8 lens allows me to photograph with out the flash and use a very high ISO. The difficulty that we add to our shooting working at a newspaper is that we do need to tell a story. This picture for instance was a good attempt to dig a ball, but it wasn't successful. So this tells a story of good effort but not quite there. And that is how the match went. Saegertown had a good effort, but just fell short against Linesville. It fails to tell the Linesville side of the story so editors would be less inclined to use it--instead option for a picture that shows Linesville somehow being stronger and therefore winning. So when someones asks that question 'Did you get any good ones?" I don't always know how to answer. My standard answer is 'you can tell me tomorrow if I did!' because they see the picture in the paper. And usually I'm not too keen on what I get in volleyball, though I did like this shot tonight. Just not sure it told enough of the story. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.