Lakewood Girls Varsity Soccer vs Millikan

Had my first soccer night game last night, and here I am thinking I was finished with night games "Wrong". The game, which was the Lakewood Lancers vs the Millikan Rams, started at 5pm. The sun was just going down below the tree and house tops giving me all shade with a bit of light., but like the football games at the start of the season, the sun went down fast.

As far as action shooting goes, I think I do a great job capturing the emotion and action of sports, but boy do I suck with white balance. I really need to learn how to set a custome white balance.

Well I guess now you know that I like using my beast (300 f/2.8) and I didn't let you down. When I started shooting my camera was set at aperture priority (f/2.8) with an ISO of 640, which quickly jumped to 800. Before the first half was over I was shooting at 3200 ISO to keep the shutter speed up around 1/1000. By the end of the second half I had the flash on. With the flash I still shot at ISO 3200 but switched the camera to manual and set the sutter speed to 500 and by the time the game was over I was shooting at 1/320, which did give some motion blur. It's all about changing and paying attention to your settings. If only I could learn white balance better.