This past Saturday I photographed the Long Beach Middle School Soccer Championship Games held at Wilson High School. There are two divisions for each the boys and girls soccer teams, which meant 4 games, back-to-back-to-back-to-back. I knew it would be a very long day.
For most middle school soccer games there's usually not a bunch of people attending, which gives me a wider choice of position I can shoot from, but for these championship games I was very limited as to where I could position myself. Additional I will only shoot one team, but for these games I was capturing as much action and as many players from both teams as I could. So with all of that said I decided to position myself near one goal, keeping the sun behind me. I knew that at the half they would change sides, which would give me opportunities to capture additioanl players.
For these games I was armed with the 300 f/2.8, which I used my 1.4x on and then on my second camera body I used my 70-200 f/2.8. The wheather was a mixture of light to dark overcast skys to sunny and would constantly change throughout the four games. I kept my ISO set to 200 while I shot in aperture priority at f/2.8 and f/4.0, which was with my 300.
Division II Boys Championship Game
Newcomb Spartans vs Lindsey Falcons
Division I Boys Championship Game
Washington Patriots vs Jefferson Jaguars
Division II Girls Championship Game
Cubberley Cubs vs Newcomb Spartans
Division I Girls Championship Game Bancroft Bruins vs Stanford Hawks
