Just an FYI... I will be in the endzone at the #SheBelievesCup matches today in Harrison, NJ.
As a pastime and to help de-stress I have been doing sports photography for a sports blog.
If you are at all interested in Soccer/Futbol England vs USA will be televised on FOX at 5pm eastern.
When the game is over I will try doing a blog of photo highlights.
-HuGs-
-Piper
P.S. for those photo geeks among us. I use a very modest Sony a3000 Mirrorless camera body but have rented some fairly fast glass for this game.
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Nikon D5100 works for me
With a few extra lens, filters, etc it cost less than a grand. Fast? I have pics of gyrocopters in flight where the rotor blades and propeller blades are frozen in time and crystal clear. Transfer to paper with 16.2 million pixels and I'll debate digital over film any day. Add a 32 G memory card, shoot pics in RAW or JPEG till the world looks level and still have memory parking space left.
Have fun with life, it's too short to take seriously
always
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
The Camera body I shoot with,
The Camera body I shoot with, cost me about $300 with a 16-55mm lense, and my 50-210mm lens that I got for my Birthday a year ago was about $200 used. (Thank You so much, Cat & Amy). Both my lenses are f/3.5
The lens I rented is an SONY FE 70-200mm f/2.8 OSS G lens which should give me better action shots in possibly low light. Now since my camera is APS-C and the lens is full frame, I get a focal length equivalent of 105-300mm. The biggest thing I battle with is most games I shoot start around dusk, or just before, and the field lights aren't that great. The SheBelivesCup should be different though as it's in a proper-stadium and at least the first match (Germany vs France) should be in good light if the snow doesn't billow in and block out the sun.
The biggest issue is the lens I rented is BRAND NEW. As in SONY only released it in October so it's not yet available in gently used, or even severely beat-up condition. And most the rental-companies have it booked out for months. I got lucky :)
-Piper
-HuGgLeS-
-Piper
Beautiful Action Pics
I love the subtle shading in your pictures. Everything is a complete picture instead of one person shot. I would take your pics over the ones I shoot any day of the week and twice on Sunday. There are photographers and then there are Bubba's Family Shots. "WOW! That looks good I gotta get a pic. And then when it's developed, "Man, what the hell did I take that for?" Just as there are violinists and fiddle players.
When's your next class for us wannabes?
hugs hon
always,
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
On getting good shots
Back in the days of film only, I had a professional photographer tell me the secret to getting good shots is to have lots of film and not be afraid to use it. Then the difference between a good shot and a ho-hum shot happens in the dark room where you crop the wide shot down an blow it up to extract the good shot.
These days with huge SD cards, it's a no-brainer. Just shoot everything that strikes your fancy and delete the bad ones. Take the others back to the PC and crop as needed. My first excursion with a digital camera was a four day weekend with my grandkids. Each day we went to a different "adventure site". In the days of film, I'd have shot only one role of 36 exposures each day and been stingy with deciding just what I wanted to waste film on. That weekend with a 32 gig SD, I shot four times that amount and still only used about a quarter of the memory space. About 75% were of the ho-hum variety and two-thirds of the rest were good shots that could be cropped to something great and the remaining needed little or no help, mainly only using software to enhance color or contrast.
Mind you, I won't say that they were profession quality, after all, I didn't spend much on my camera, and only had the stock lens, but they were far and a way better than I'd ever achieve with film where I had to husband my film supply.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Photo abundance
In HIgh School, I was the school paper photographer and in college worked as a photographer for the local paper. And yeah, taking lots of pictures is key to getting good ones. For a typical HS football game, I would have six rolls of film in my bag and try to shoot at least four of them. For college games, I took ten rolls and tried to shoot at least six. These were 26 exposure rolls, Kodak ASA 400 Tri-X taken with a Yashicamat DLR 120 with the open Sportsfinder aiming frame. :)
I managed to get run over by a play (once by a referee) about every other game. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
A bunch of us it looks like
It looks like a bunch of us enjoy photography around here.
I have a old Canon T5 and a Canon 1D X Mark II, that I pick up used. All of my stuff I have picked up used at either a pawn shop or a electronic resale store. Along with about 20 lens for both.
I do Studio shoots of stuff for websites and other projects, along with Nature, landscape and around the city as well for the most part.
Rebeca Lynn H
Great pictures
The detail is so good you can see the concentration in their faces. Those women look INTENSE.
Football not Futbol
If we are speaking English.
As the USA are the current World (as in the Planet not the magazine) Champs it is a shame that a Murdoch company has got the rights to show it.
I first covered a Football match in the mid 1970's. IT was Spurs vs Arsenal. I use a Praktika LTL 35mm film camera, a 135mm lens and Tri-X pushed to 1600iso. Manual wind (lever), manual focus and the only electronics was a TTL Light meter. Shot 72 frames in the match.
I was at Aldershot vs Lincoln City earlier with a Nikon D500, 200-500Lens and a D800 with a 70-200 lens. I took more than 500 photos today and still didn't get a goal (it was 0-0)
How time flies.
Oh, and there is no 'end zone' in Soccer. A hangover from American Football perhaps?
Why?
Why, just why, did #SheBelievesCup make me think of two girls, one... (From what I've heard, Google ye not. Beware the Schmuck Bait.)
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
I guess you saw a match for
I guess you saw a match for the ages:
U.S. WNT FALLS TO ENGLAND 1-0 IN FRONT OF SELLOUT CROWD IN NEW JERSEY
IIRC the USWNT was undefeated in previous matches vs England in the US.
Kris
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