Masters Week Photo Blog Part 5

With round two in the books, and the field cut in half (or so), the work will now get easier for the weekend. Instead of running around trying to catch up to players who are making a run in the last 5 holes, we now can concentrate on the last 10 or so groups for the next two days (it's most likely that the eventual winner will come from these groups.)

In order to cover every single hole and to guarantee that we will get every reaction shot (because that's what golf photography is really all about, especially on Sunday), we will leap-frog every green. For example, Photographer A starts at green No. 1 and shoots the last 10 groups that come through until they shoot the very last group. Then Photographer A goes to green No. 6 and picks up whoever is there and shoots every group until, again, they shoot the last group. Meanwhile, Photographer B starts on green No. 2 then on to No. 7 and so forth until everyone meets up at No. 18. This means Photographer A, who started at No. 1 gets to No. 18 first while everyone trickles in afterwards finishing with the poor bloke who has to shoot green No. 17 then rush ahead of the final group to No. 18. Hope that all made some sense, but it's a very solid strategy that was developed a few years back that has been very efficient and effective.

So with that, I leave you with a reaction shot of Tiger missing birdie on No. 9 and a "how it was done" shot of Augusta Chronicle staffer Michael Holahan's moon picture on Thursday evening.

Below is Holahan, right, with Director of Photography Michael Snyder looking oddly at the sky. Photogs will point cameras at anything.

And this is what he was shooting: