They all are pretty good,nice framing, good exposure and nice colors.I noticed you were using 500 ISO to get a shutter speed of 1/1000, is there any reason why you dint bump the ISO bit to get a faster shutter speed?In most of the pictures the action is frozen but there are a few that have some blurriness for example the 1st one,I would prefer to have everything frozen given that there is enough light.
I thought by using ss 1/1000 it was good enough to frozen action, and I didn't want to bump the ISO because I knew I was going to be doing a lot of cropping and I wanted to get the best quality a day light shooting can offer.
It was cloudy the whole entire game.
Well you were using a 400mm, you have more than sufficient reach for this kind of situation, you could have your subjects filling the frame without the need of cropping.Were these cropped?At the end it comes down to personal preferences but I think you could benefit from bumping the ISO a bit and more so when you are using a MKIII.Great set nonetheless.
Royraiden;
thanks for the comment.
I'm still learning and I will keep in mind all the C&C.
Most of them were cropped, but now that I pay close attention, there weren't any heavy croppings thou.
Not a big soccer guy, but I can appreciate a nice set of sports images no matter what the sport! Great IQ, color, action and isolation. Nice work!
Billy-
Nice set of pictures here, but I agree with Roy. I would bump the ISO a tad and shoot with a little faster shutter. You can always use a little de-noiser in post if noise is a problem, but with a MarkIII ISO 800 should be ok. What is the final output for these? They may actually be cropped a little too tight for certain uses, but I think these are quite good.
Royraiden wrote:
They all are pretty good,nice framing, good exposure and nice colors.I noticed you were using 500 ISO to get a shutter speed of 1/1000, is there any reason why you dint bump the ISO bit to get a faster shutter speed?In most of the pictures the action is frozen but there are a few that have some blurriness for example the 1st one,I would prefer to have everything frozen given that there is enough light.
the only thing blurred is the end of the kicking leg and some dirt, not sure that is so bad in this case, kinda gives sense of motion, but frozen would be fine too.
(ISO 500 isn't really worth it though on some bodies, on some models such as the 5D2 ISO500 has 1/3 stop less DR than either ISO400 or ISO640/ISO800. And on pretty much all the models ISO 125 and 250 have between 1/3 and almost half stop less DR than the stop 1/3 below and the ones 1/3 and 2/3 above. On some of them ISO500 does have a little bit more than ISO640/800 though. I don't have data for the 1D3 on this though so I can't quite say.)
Who the hell cares about freezing the ball.
Your shots are great and sellable!!
Too many critiques who think they know it all.
Bottom line, they are good enough to be published via a wire service and
they would definitely make you money, thats all that matters.
mongoose777 wrote:
Who the hell cares about freezing the ball.
Your shots are great and sellable!!
Too many critiques who think they know it all.
Bottom line, they are good enough to be published via a wire service and
they would definitely make you money, thats all that matters.
No one said they are bad, far from that, they are excellent.No one said he should have frozen the ball either, but that the first picture had the player's leg blurred, that can be fixed easily and is a matter of choice whether to implement it or not.
