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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · my first high school soccer game (seeking comments and critiques) | |
timgangloff wrote:
First time out? Wonderful. Room for improvement? Sure. But you are doing well. Of course, you are shooting with the best equipment made by Canon, so that helps, but no serious complaints with these. You could improve on timing a bit, as a few of these look a tad late. The backs of the players in your second image don't really work for me, but overall, I'd be pretty happy if this was my first time out. Lather, rinse and repeat.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I decided to give it a try and see what I could do. I did the same with football as well a few weeks back, and really enjoyed it. The 400mm 2.8 seems indispensable - an f/4 wouldn't cut it in this type of light, as no camera is THAT good at high ISO! I put some of my first football game pics in the thread you created about the 300mm lens thoughts you were having. Since that was a day game (the first football game I shot), the 300 2.8 + 1.4x extender was great (which I said in that thread), but good light is hard to find, so if I keep at it, the 400mm 2.8 looks almost like a necessity for field sports.
Back on topic, yes the timing is key, and I know what you mean. I would like the ball to be at peak action, but it's not. Close, but not there yet. Agree on the backs picture, but I threw it up here to see the comments. Expressions are most important, and there are none there. But it was very hard to be all over the place and capture all the action. Especially when the teams are not known and playing unpredictably to me at least. Towards the end of the game I sort of figured out who the better players were and stayed on them or waited for them to come to me. I realized moving around too much could cost me shots as well as just staying put in a corner and switching as needed for corners, etc. It's like a double-edged sword - move around a lot, or stay put and let action come to you. And I think for HS sports, it depends. Probably more move around than college or pro. But that's just an assumption on my part.
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