On Friday, I was able to get down on the field and shoot a Texas high school football playoff game between Friendswood and Lamar Consolidated. I have never shot sports at any level besides my little brother and for the most part I cant say I was happy with everything that I took. At about half time the auto-focus on my lens stopped working and it showed me how nice it was to really have it when its around.
Learning to photograph sports is something that I have been wanting to learn to do and I figure the best place to learn is at my local high school. It will definitely be a learning experience and hopefully with time I will be able to provide better pictures. All of these were taken with my Canon 40D on Manual Settings and a Sigma 70-200mm @ f/2.8 and have been cropped.
ISO-1600 @ 1/400 sec
ISO-3200 @ 1/800 sec
I tried out my 40Ds ISO at 3200 on this shot and it turned out to be way to noisy.
ISO-1600 @ 1/400 sec
ISO-1600 @ 1/400 sec
One of the hardest lessons I learned Friday was about lighting. Shooting from the endzone provides very poor lighting and half the time you can't even see the players faces.
ISO-1600 @ 1/400 sec
In Photoshop I went ahead an added a little vignetting to see if it helped give the picture anything extra.
ISO-1600 @ 1/320 sec
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