Golf and Photography

Trying to inspire the next generation of fans one game at a time :slight_smile:

Dad in goalie skates, love it. Once a tendy, always a tendy

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I love watching my oldest play pickup hockey in his goalie skates…kids who he tended for always a little amazed he can skate so well.

Well, that’s over now.

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Just seen this thread and late to the party.

Golf and photography are two of my favourite hobbies, so much so I’m setting up a photography studio in London this year.

I’ve always toyed with the idea of bringing a camera to the course but never has as I always think it will be a faff to take lots of pictures. Ideally you’d walk a course alone in the golden hours to capture some fantastic images.

As for gear… where do I start. Been through a lot and currently have Sony A7iii with a few lenses. Fuji X100F… Fuji x-t10 with a few lenses and a few old film cameras. Thinking about picking up a smaller camera to keep in the golf bag.

Great thread to read

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I play this muni in a rougher part of town, where there’s this homeless guy who always appears out of this creek ditch off the 18th to sell balls. One round I saw him down there looking at playboys instead of peddling proVs, so I thankfully that’s my only experience w golf and pornography

edit: before the fix

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Trout are you drunk again? lol

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Yeah I changed the title back. While I am an avid lover of both, I figured we’d try to keep this thread on the straight and narrow as much as possible given the discussions going on here. :rofl:

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Finally took the plunge. Bought a Sony a6400! Pretty excited to get this thing on the golf course.

I am totally new to photography, so any youtube, website, or book recommendations on how to learn the art is appreciated!

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Cody Blue on YouTube has fantastic Sony specific videos, check him out!

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Good golf course Photography is just landscape photography with a golf hole in the way :joy:

Read up about light, composition and how to edit in raw. Lightroom is your friend and so is the golden hour.

Tom Heaton has a fantastic landscape YouTube channel

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Don’t have any golf course pictures with it yet, but my dad got a drone for his birthday, and let me play around with it Saturday night. Those things are so much fun. The battery only last for 20 minutes tops, so I’m going to have to order my old man some extra batteries, but I could play around with it all day. I can’t wait to get it out on a golf course.

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Retweet on using Lightroom. Always shoot in RAW. Composition/lighting are two of the most important aspects of photography.

Peter McKinnon is another good resource on YouTube. The majority of his work is videography related, but he has some really good photography tutorials.

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These recs are awesome. I’m so deep in Youtube videos haha

I just started a little golf photo instagram account if you guys need more crap to scroll through while on the toilet

https://www.instagram.com/hlincas/

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Have been a hot & cold into photography over the course of my life, would like to pick it up again. I have a little DJI Spark drone that I took to a golf course in DE while on vacation and shot some video. Had a lot of fun doing it, learned a lot about what I’d like to do different next time I get to shoot. Still learning Final Cut Pro and video editing, but this is the first pass. Thinking about buying a drone with a better camera (4k, shoots raw photos, etc) and doing this more

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“Light: Science and Magic”, by Hunter, Biver and Fuqua. Apart from composition, the most important aspect of photography is light. This book is all about how to use light to achieve different results.

For tips on composition see “The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design” by Michael Freeman.

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Recently went fishing with my Dad to Loreto, BCS. Had the opportunity to play TPC Danzante Bay. Unforgettable experience with my father, had the course to ourselves.

You can see the rest here

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that last picture…holy shit! Place looks incredible

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Princes, November 2018

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Anybody have any tips on really capturing the right light and angles when taking photos of courses? I really suck at it and 95% of mine end up boring and useless.