Soccer - A great learning experience

kgarrett11

I usually deal with wildlife but shot a few of my grandsons' games a couple of weeks ago and thought that I would get your opinion of some of the shots. Please let me know what you think. All of them were taken with a Nikon D3. Some with a 300mm and some with a 70-200mm.

#1 300mm f/9.0 ISO 1000 (cloudy day) .002s (1/500)



#2 300mm f/9.0 ISO 1000 .001s (1/1000)



#3 300 f/9.0 ISO 1000 .0012s (1/800)




#4 300mm f/9.0 ISO 1000 .001s (1/1000)


#5 70-200mm (105mm) f/9.0 ISO 1000 .0008s (1/1250)

Cuong

You need to use much lower f/stop to minimize the distracting background since your lenses have that capability.

Cuong

Mitchell

I agree. You need to shoot at wider apertures to try and minimize some of these distracting backgrounds.

I often shoot my 300mm at f2.8 for soccer if the backgrounds are distracting.

kgarrett11

Thanks, I'll do that the next time. Unfortunately that won't be until next spring. Their last games were this past weekend.

bloomphotog

Any particular reason you stopped down so much? I agree with the above poster...shoot wide open. Thats what you're paying for, after all.

kgarrett11

bloomphotog wrote:

Any particular reason you stopped down so much? I agree with the above poster...shoot wide open. Thats what you're paying for, after all.

Yea, I'm having a problem with my sensor. I can't get it clean so I have been stopping it down more than I want. This has been the only problem that I have had with the D3. Other than that it is a fantastic camera.

bloomphotog

kgarrett11 wrote:

Yea, I'm having a problem with my sensor. I can't get it clean so I have been stopping it down more than I want. This has been the only problem that I have had with the D3. Other than that it is a fantastic camera.

You're stopping down the lens to to avoid issues with a dirty sensor? Thats opposite of what you want to be doing. Shoot wide open to decrease the DOP, which it turn throws crap on your sensor more OOF. And yes...the D3 is a phenomenal camera.