I asked my Athletic Director to let me take pictures of our upcoming highschool game so she got me on the sidelines and on the field. My uncle lended me his IS telephoto lens for it too so I was able to get some good photos. Unfortunately due to lighting situations I had to be on ISO 1600 and even then my shutter speed was relatively slow so many photos are a bit blurry.
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Those were the best ones I took that night. I took in total about 600 photos with the Canon 20D with an Image Stabilizing telephoto lens.
Could I get some CC on these? :smile:
Not bad, although you could clear out the grain in some of the photos.
[QUOTE=Alex9325;17763661]Not bad, although you could clear out the grain in some of the photos.[/QUOTE]
Like I said, ISO 1600 and 3200. I could've probably used a noise reduction filter though. I'll do that next time, I can't be arsed to go reprocess all my photos again. :smile:
Just a heads up, almost all photographers use flash for HS Night Football.
Next time you're down there ask your uncle if he has an external flash you can use. If you want to get creative, use a monopod and mount it below the camera on a bracket.
It's pretty much a fruitless endeavor to shoot HS Football with available light unless you have something like Nikon's D3, a full frame 12 MP sports camera capable of creating clean images at ISO 3200 and beyond.
EDIT: Also will be interesting to see the 1D Mark IV's ISO performance. Reports are it rivals the D3 at ISO 3200.
I shoot for my high school paper so I take a lot of on field football pictures and what I have found helps is to get a turbo pack and use your flash. Before I figured that out I just shot a lot and hoped for the best. The problem with a lot of high school fields is that the lightning bugs in the stadium throw of more light then the stadium lights. Fortunately my high schools home field is now at the University of Cincinnati's football stadium.
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