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Published September 16, 2009 06:16 pm - It’ s probably difficult to comprehend how a guy can live more than five decades and still know so little about football. Shooting football with everything against him Robert Lebzelter column for Sept. 20, 2009 Star Beacon It’ s probably difficult to comprehend how a guy can live more than five decades and still know so little about football. Especially when he lives in an area where a regional professional football team holds the record for winning the most Super Bowls, that being the Pittsburgh Steelers, of course, at six. I went through eight seasons of high school football in which I missed only a game or two. That’ s not because I had an insatiable desire to learn more about the game, but because I had two kids in the high school marching band. Somehow, I turned my brain off during the games and was able to turn it on long enough for the music. I tried not to let the drooling show. I returned to the high school gridiron field earlier this month to try my hand at photographing a game. The Star Beacon has three people who are pretty adept at shooting football. On this particular Friday, two of them weren’t available. That left one guy and a gaggle of games. Since purchasing my Canon XSI at Christmas, I’ve been trying to put it through the paces. My handsome, yet intelligent and thoughtful grandson, Henry, is a good photographic subject. Unfortunately, the little guy isn’t always around. So I’ve taken to experimenting. When in a what-was-I-thinking mood, I volunteered to photograph a wedding. The results weren’t too bad at all. I captured the bride throwing her bouquet in the air in one frame and a female guest catching it in the next! Then I tried shooting fireworks. Even without a tripod, they didn’t’ t come out too badly. My photos of the moon were never that good before, but using the fancy camera and a tripod, the results were at least somewhat impressive. So I told sports editor Donny “Mr. Jefferson” McCormack I would try to shoot the Conneaut-Champion game, even though past attempts by myself at such a challenge were a total bomb. Night football isn’t easy, especially for a guy like me who can’ t recognize a game plan. I went online to read discussions on shooting high school football. I wasn’t aiming at a Pulitzer, but I didn’t want my results to be something that could only be used in an inkblot test. The Internet discussions helped me conclude: My telephoto lens was long enough, but not fast enough. That means it wasn’t good enough to capture action at night without it being blurry and bad. 
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