I was set to cover the JV game at home, but once I got to the school I found out the team we were playing didn't have a JV team, so I took the drive to the other school to cover the freshmen game.
I had terrible back light, but I did what I could to capture the best shots. Since I had such a high contrast in uniforms (white and a dark green) I decided to take a reading off of the white uniforms and then set my camera to manual to slightly overexpose the shots. For those shots where I had real bad back light and almost a haze on the shot, I simply increased my black clipping in Lightroom to bring back my colors and shadows.
Our defense was really getting through Cabrillo's offensive line so when Cabillo had the ball I would position myself down field behind the line of scrimmage to capture the D-line rushing. In the below shot of #71 he initially made the hit on the quarterback and while attempting to bring him down got ahold of the ball and ran it in for a touch down.
2 comments:
As always, solid capture of the game. Just curious if you do much cropping or are just able to get in that tight on a 70-200? Thanks for all your sharing. I've learned a lot from your site and the pictures of my sons freshman games have improved significantly. :)
Thanks a bunch for the comment Cynthia, these were all taken using a 300 f/2.8. Most are slightly cropped just a bit to get the shot I want.
I'm very pleased that these posts are helping you capture better action shots of your son - that's what its all about.
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