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Seefutlung
Sep-05-2006, 07:28 AM
Took some snaps of the North Huntington Beach Soccer tourney at UC Irvine this weekend.

Usual disclaimer of the snaps are for the parents and participates so I am not as dicriminating with my posts as they seem to enjoy the crummy equally as well as the not-so-crummy.

My snaps can be found here:
http://garyayala.smugmug.com/gallery/1854758

http://garyayala.smugmug.com/photos/93064902-L.jpg
Antonio Correia
Sep-05-2006, 10:01 AM
gary,
Very good shots as those in the gallery.

Regards. :thumb
windoze
Sep-05-2006, 10:16 AM
THANX for sharing these great images. Im assuming you used the canon 200 f/2.8. I noticed that basically you use aperature priority and change the ISO to keep shutter speed fast (1/1500 -1/2000 ).
was curious if this is your preferred technique or do you use AI Servo also?
the sports mode?
just trying to get a feel for how to best shoot soccer.......


troy
Seefutlung
Sep-05-2006, 10:27 AM
gary,
Very good shots as those in the gallery.

Regards. :thumb

Thanks Antonio. Finally able to get out some and shoot a bit.

Gary
Seefutlung
Sep-05-2006, 10:39 AM
THANX for sharing these great images. Im assuming you used the canon 200 f/2.8. I noticed that basically you use aperature priority and change the ISO to keep shutter speed fast (1/1500 -1/2000 ).
was curious if this is your preferred technique or do you use AI Servo also?
the sports mode?
just trying to get a feel for how to best shoot soccer.......

troy

Normally I would shoot in 'M'. But with the ever changing lighting, shade from trees, changing of direction ... I tend to shoot daylight soccer in AV and as open as I can for shallow DOF (hoping to blur out distracting bacground), used the Canon 70-200 2.8 at 2.8 and the Sigma 50-500 at 4.5 to 6.3 (depending on my zoom ... essentially wide open). With action photos, Image Impact is more important than Image Quality ... so I try not to worry about a low ISO, I tend to crank it up just to make sure I have very fast shutter speeds. 1/500 should be plenty fast to stop action (not taking into account rule of thumb for lenses) ... but I have found that sometimes there is a minute blur of the extremities (a head snap or hand/foot) ... so personally I try to keep my shutter at 1/1000+ just as a safety net sort of thing.

And I was in AI Servo.

Gary