Now that we've gone through all the different scenarios and what to do when shooting a game, let's talk about some other factors that may affect your ability to film and one of them involves shooting in the rain. Now, this isn't actual rain. Of course, this is an effect that I have in my editing program, but it should help simulate what we have to deal with when we're shooting. And you can see that I have my rain cover over my camera mind is a professional rain cover. As you learned back in the accessory section, you may be using a Ziploc bag or a garbage bag of some kind, but one way or another your camera is hopefully covered. And if it's not, you might be using an umbrella.

And if you're using an umbrella, you'll remember we said you only have one hand free, and that's where the zoom remote comes in handy, which we talked about during the accessory section. You can have one hand on an umbrella, the other hand can be working the camera left, right up and down. You don't have to worry about zooming in with a second hand so an umbrella and a zoom remote is a good combo but I recommend using some kind of a cover. Now when that happens, it's going to be hard to see your viewfinder. If you can see it through this plastic as this is designed, you'll often have water beat up on this, it might fog up a little bit, it'll be hard to see your viewfinder. So my first tip for shooting in the rain is to use your eyepiece.

Always shoot the game looking through your eyepiece, they'll give you more clarity, you'll be able to see a lot better. The second thing is you should have your microfiber cloth that we talked about in the accessory section, your lens may end up with some droplets on it, which you'll see when you're shooting. And then you can take this and dab them away and clean your lens. The third thing I can mention about shooting in the rain, my camera comes with a lens hood. It's this little rectangular thing that goes over the lens and that helps keep the rain off it. So I didn't mention this in the in the accessory section.

But if you have a smaller camera with just the lens exposed, you could buy a small hood that snaps onto your lens and kind of shields the lens from any water that might hit it. All coaches will know if you're shooting in the rain. It's going to look like it's raining. Obviously there's going to be some concessions that you make as a cameraman. So what I would say to you is why now just a little bit more than usual and maybe you don't have to Zoom in as much as I told you in previous sections that might help you frame the action better see through the rain, still shoot as well as you can, but you got a little bit more leeway when you're shooting in the rain to just kind of stay wide and left and right and you still can't lose the ball, you still can't be cutting off play, you want to follow the guidelines for in camera editing.

You want to make sure that every play is there. But shooting in the rain, not a whole lot different than shooting in the daylight except you have to deal with these issues that we're working on right here. So use the ip ip, keep your lens clear, and just make sure you're still following the action. That's the most important thing. And then of course when you get home, put on some dry clothes. Hopefully that'll help you when you're shooting in the rain.