Stories: ACW Wrestling (Patreon)

For this month’s story, I present you something else that is quite different. I tagged along with my friends from Entre 2 Chaises de Metal  a french wrestling podcast. 

On Sunday night they were invited to the first Apex Championship Wrestling event, an indie wrestling show with local wrestlers and a few special invitees from the US on their opening night.

Of course, I helped filming the podcast where they were interviewing a few wrestlers, took a few bts photos at the same time and I was also free to roam the event and took a few shots of the show.

I took this opportunity to test out my new lens, the XF35mm F1.4R, and I have to say that I am quite pleased with it, a gorgeous lens, her only drawback is that it tends to hunt to focus in low light, not the best at it but I’ve seen worst. I would have benefited of a zoom lens here, although it was possible to get close, I did for a few shots, however you tend to be in the way of the actual photographer and videographer of the event, so I kept it low & casual.

I tried to pick out the most interesting photos for this gallery from all the burst shots I got, I still need lots of practice here, but there are a few good ones here and there.

This is Brian Pillman Jr , son of the legendary loose cannon Brian Pillman, he was the top star of the event for one night only, currently under contract with the AEW. 

I’m not an event photographer nor do I want to be one, but once in a while it can be fun when the subject is an interest of yours, all and all we had a great night in good company.

Matt Sydal, also under contract with AEW.