Shoot my first soccer game today. The vb match I was at went to 5 games, so I missed most of the first half. These were mostly with mark III and the 300 2.8 with a 1.4tc, still wish I had a bit more reach sometimes. Also, a couple are with the 5d and 70-200, which did OK, but I do miss having another 1 series as a 2nd body. Since this is my first match, I wasn't sure what to look for, and I missed a several good opportunities because of it. C and C always welcome
Thanks much for the comments. Most are already cropped a bit more then I would like, since it seemed a lot of the action took place on the far sides of the field. 500 would have been nice! Will look at cropping some a bit tighter though.
Yep, f4 (wide open on the 300 + 1.4tc) and the 70-200 stopped down to match. Does seem to work pretty well there - backgrounds are still pretty blurred, but you get a bit more in focus, esp. when they are close to you.
Where do other soccer shooters set up? I spent most of the time toward the corner on the back line. Nice when players are driving down the sidelines toward the goal, but the net got in the way a couple times, and you are farther away from the mid field action.
first few look unexposed to me but I haven't calibrated my monitor in a little while so take that with a grain of salt. I also second the cropping more too much dead space in some of these ... 9 even looks like you could go horizontal on it
Thanks for the feedback! The first couple were from the last few minutes of the first half and I was shooting into the sun. Subjects look OK, but the background is a little bit dark. And I usually bump the contrast a bit, which also make the bg a bit darker as well. Will look at cropping tighter in the future, but I also like to show at least some of what is going on around the player, etc.
Thanks again for the feedback, everyone. It is super helpful.
