I may have found my new favorite sport to shoot… The image possibilities in kayak polo are sweet! You get intense competition, faces, player interactions and the dynamic visuals of a water sport.
This was my first time shooting kayak polo, but I managed to come away with a few good shots. The action is fast, but contained in a relatively small pitch. So it was simple shooting with single Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8. This club plays on Lake Wylie, and I was able to shoot from the deck that runs along one side of the playing area. Morning light was somewhat diffused, but at ISO 400 I was still capturing shots at around 1/500th to 1/1200th exposures with the f-stop between 4 and 5.6. Check out more of the keepers at my flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/agoailam.
