Here's a nice airborne shot of longtime NJ indy wrestler Gavin Quest, from an April 2004 UCW (and no, I don't have a clue what it stands for anymore, other than the "W" part) show in Clark, NJ. To the best of my knowledge, they only ran the one show, but it drew well and had a lot of familiar faces and/or good workers on the card: Jay Lethal (with family in full voice!), Azrial, Skinhead Ivan, Damian Dragon, Corvis Fear, Danny Demanto, etc.One of the toughest things to master in wrestling photography is capturing action shots like this. A budget digicam simply won't cut it, because they take too long to actually snap the damn picture (the so-called "shutter lag"). A true film or digital SLR, while costlier, is mandatory.
I've always like this shot because, even though Gavin was sharp-focus frozen in mid-air, there's still the slightest motion blurring of the background. Blurring of moving objects is tough to master; a little gives a sense of movement in an otherwise static image, but too much blur is just blur. This was one of those "just right" happy accidents.
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