A spot of Football.

[Diego Garcia]

Football or Rugby. No competition. Rugby everytime. However, had these to shoot today - albeit the wrong game.

As ever, in manual, various speed between 1600 - 2500 @ 2.8, 300mm. ISO averaged 200.

One of those great sunny winter afternoons where the sun is beating down at a low angle. Nice in the garden with a beer , a horror when you turn up and see a team in white shirts

Anyway, as ever comments and wuestions welcome.

 

[Warspite]

Not bad, especially considering the less than perfect light, atleast it wasnt raining

As ever you captured some great action shots, quite like #1, #2, #3, and #5. All decent but those are my favourites


Great shots (as always) :thumb:

Can I ask what type of metering so you use for these?

 

[oldgit]

Looks like you've had to push several of these a lot. I guess you were underexposing to not blow the white shirts and as a result have added a lot of posterisation noise.

 

[RobertP]

Interesting. I read somewhere (might have been gmen on potn) that having the ball in the shot was very important for this sort of shot and looking through these the 2 without a ball in the shot look kind of wrong

I also read that shooting into the sun could work to your advantage with hair lighting and the second one looks good with that lighting.

Shame it was the wrong game

 

[Diego Garcia]

Looks like you've had to push several of these a lot. I guess you were underexposing to not blow the white shirts and as a result have added a lot of posterisation noise.

Yes, spot on. Awful metering white on a day like today. It was a lose lose situation tbh but rather under than over.

Pete.

 

[Diego Garcia]

Interesting. I read somewhere (might have been gmen on potn) that having the ball in the shot was very important for this sort of shot and looking through these the 2 without a ball in the shot look kind of wrong

I also read that shooting into the sun could work to your advantage with hair lighting and the second one looks good with that lighting.

Shame it was the wrong game

Correct. I think I wrote that here the other day for Ally. The ball is the shot but it can work when both players are looking up for a ball. The shot of the guy with v. short hair just grabbed me when cropped. (last one).

Thanks for the comment.