Tennis and Racquet Club . Boston

This shoot from the fall was an interesting day on a few different levels.
1. The Tennis & Racquet Club needed some updated photos of members using the club. Using it by: running around, swinging racquets, chasing balls, mingling and enjoying membership in this exclusive club. So I bounced between the court tennis tournaments to the racquet ball games during their open house day.

2. I experimented with shooting with the available light in both of the courts. Some daylight, some artificial room lights that looked quite natural. I learned as I shot, the best way to shoot through protective netting separating the flying balls from the spectators.
I shot (this is where it gets a little techy) most of the action shots at 10,000 ISO, 1/640th of a second, f2.8 with a Canon 70-200mm lens on a Canon 5D Mark III. The beauty of the modern digital DSLRs that are available now is that we can shoot in darker spaces, not lose quality in the image and without popping flashes.
**this translates to really clean, well exposed church photos for those that are here to see wedding photos 🙂

3. The building is quite historic, built in 1902, which you know I love. I’d actually walked by it many many times on Boylston Street in the Back Bay. You probably have too. It’s right across from the Hynes Convention Center, but you probably hadn’t guessed that there was this was going on inside.

4. Later on that day we moved downtown to the Union Club of Boston for a black tie member’s reception. Again, in an old building in the shadow of Boston’s iconic attractions. The Union Club is a stone’s throw from the State House on Park Street.