Shot the quarter finals last night of the 5A state championship playoffs between Ralston Valley (#3 in the state) and Pomona (#6 in the state).

Shook things up and used the 1D Mk II on the 120-300 2.8 with the 580ex II flash. Shot somewhere between ISO 640 and 800 and 1/250th and 2.8 to 3.5.

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Good job with the flash Carl. Great color and faces.
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Thanks Bob

Very nice flash/ambient balance.

Great set from beginning to end! Even at my best, I can't balance flash and ambient nearly as well as you have here.

Nice series. I assume these are cropped for sales, but I'd like to see the last one (#8) cropped a bit tighter.

Thanks Dennis and Derrick. I have worked pretty hard over the years trying to get the best output from my flash set up for football.

Caleb, actually, I do not like cropping at all. I usually crop in camera. It is one of the things I do like doing for MaxPreps, cropping 100 to 200 photos a game pre their standards just takes up time. I am getting great sales from MaxPreps though, so I won't complain too much.

Awesome work as usual

Thanks Chris. I finally get a 1pm start this Saturday, but it is on the other side of Denver for me, and we already have one MaxPreps shooter there. I may give up the 1pm start to move indoors for some college hockey....