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POV Video Shows Sports Photographer Capturing Big Football Catch

Chris Gampat
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11/16/2015
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Last Updated on 11/16/2015 by Chris Gampat

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A while back, the site shared a video of a college football photographer capturing the game with a GoPro mounted in his camera’s hot shoe. Recently, photographer Chadd Caddy did the same thing, but arguably captured much better moments. Chadd is a San Diego State Journalism student and shared the video via reddit. As you hear him shooting, he then goes on to show you some of the frames that he captured–and many are pretty darn good. Most notably, you’ll see a great catch photographed at just the right moments.

What that means is that Chadd was able to predict that the player would have the ball thrown to him and catch it. Foresight is a big part of photography, especially sports photography.

The video overall just shows us what it’s like for a college football shooter on the sidelines. Luckily, no one got super close and accidentally tackled him.

Check out Chadd’s video after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.