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Soccer - A great learning experience

kgarrett11kgarrett11 Registered Users Posts: 525 Major grins
edited November 17, 2009 in Sports
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)

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

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

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#4 300mm f/9.0 ISO 1000 .001s (1/1000)
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#5 70-200mm (105mm) f/9.0 ISO 1000 .0008s (1/1250)
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    CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    You need to use much lower f/stop to minimize the distracting background since your lenses have that capability.

    Cuong
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    MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    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.
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    kgarrett11kgarrett11 Registered Users Posts: 525 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    Thanks, I'll do that the next time. Unfortunately that won't be until next spring. Their last games were this past weekend.
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    bloomphotogbloomphotog Registered Users Posts: 582 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    Any particular reason you stopped down so much? I agree with the above poster...shoot wide open. :D Thats what you're paying for, after all.
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    kgarrett11kgarrett11 Registered Users Posts: 525 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    bloomphotog wrote:
    Any particular reason you stopped down so much? I agree with the above poster...shoot wide open. :D 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.
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    bloomphotogbloomphotog Registered Users Posts: 582 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2009
    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? headscratch.gif 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.
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