City - Tempe State - ARIZONA Country - United States
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This was my 2nd time shooting high school football, so please give some feedback that would help me get better shots.
This was one of the pictures from last weeks game, finaly got time to upload them. It was an awesome game, great one to watch. It was neck and neck up to the end. The home team won.
I took my flash this time, and found out that its way too bright! I lost a bunch of pictures cause it overexposed everything. So it looks like Drew gets to go buy a different flash.... I am looking to buy a flash with TTL metering for my D70. I will most likely get the Nikon SB-800. That way I know that the exposure will be perfect with my f2.8 lens.
The problem that i'm having, is my flash would work great at f8 or f5.6, but with sports I cant do that, I need to stay at my f2.8. If I did go with f8 or f5.6 I would one, loose the depth of field I need, and two it wont look right with the flash being the main source of light. I cant use Neutral density filters because my lens wont be able to use auto focus. Also my flash is already at its lowest setting, I guess thats what you get for getting a big metz flashhead. Next game i'm going to rent the flash I want to buy, and give it a test run. We will see how things turn out from there.
This is true Paul. It does work. But its a highschool, the lighting conditions in there are really bad. The 1st time i went there, i was using my camera without a flash. I was at 1600 asa (the highest my camera can go) and only pulling out 1/200th f2.8. I attached one of the only good photos I got from that game.
Without a flash, it is quite hard to get anything sharp, and there are way too many shadows from the players helmets blocking the faces and expressions.
So basicly I need the flash, since i cant make anything sharp without it. And my lens is sharp enough being a nikon 80-200mm f2.8. But thank you for the thought.
Drew? You probably don't remember me from AS (meatcube)... but yeah... hello
Aside from the obvious overexposure (I can't help you with that :\) it is a great shot... you caught the interaction of the two main players (facial expression ++good) and the timing/framing seems perfect :)
Good idea Jason, but the thing with that, is this is highschool football, the stadiums arn't very bright. Come to think of it I think I using 800 asa, I shall change that. But the exposure that every photographer on the entire field was using was 1/200th f2.8 at 800 asa, with a flash.
Without a flash, everything has too much motion blur from the players, and the shadows are too intence, you cant see faces. And I am already using a monopod.
I don't know what size print your going for(due to noise), just forget about the flash and try boosting your ISO/ASA 800 on the camera and use a monopod you should get enough light from the stadium lights.
Great action shot. The intensity on the faces of the players in blue is awesome. DOF is perfect, and the positioning of #28 couldn't be better. Very well done IMHO.
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{K:88111} 9/25/2004
