Georgia Tech vs Duke - NCAA American Footbal (7 Images)

[Croasdail]

Duke managed to hang in there for the 1st half actually leading into halftime but just a couple of minutes into the second half, the game was over and the trouncing had begun. Anyway... here are some shots of the game.

http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_Duke035.jpg


http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_duke087.jpg



http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_Duke090.jpg



http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_Duke155-1.jpg


http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_Duke118.jpg


http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm1_GT_Duke222_alt.jpg


http://www.buzzershot.com/images/sm_GT_Duke009-1alt.jpg

[Spphotos]

Great shots!

[Croasdail]

thanks spphotos for looking!

[benamen]

Wow, very nice. They really pop on my monitor. I would love to shoot a day football game.

[DavidEB]

great shots.

[3oh6]

good lookin stuff there Croasdail, a couple of real action packed captures, nice work.

[Cadwell]

Excellent photos. I have no idea what's going on in them, of course, but they look really good!

[phishhead_23]

Great shots, where are all the people at in the crowd??

[liza]

Good Lord! These are simply outstanding! I would kill for results like these. Could you share settings, lens info, etc? I'm shooting a game Friday night and would appreciate some guidance. Thanks for sharing!

[PhotosGuy]

Nice shots!

[Wsman2]

Nice pics!

[Brands]

Wow :cool:

all great shots.....nice :D

[gmen]

Looks like a successful afternoon's work to me :)

Good stuff.

---- Gavin

[Croasdail]

Hey - thanks everyone for looking. I am really unhappy with the last two - those were shot with my 10D and 70-200....and I forgot to change the manual settings when the shade creeped over the stadium... my bad. I also hate that 48 hours after the fact, looking at the shot with fresh eyes, I always pick out different shots as the best then I do on the first pass. I am a terrible self editor. But again, many thanks for the kind comments.

Cadwell - I know the feeling - I am loving learning to shoot what the rest of the world calls football, but beats me what makes the refs blow their whistles... all I know is photographically there is some great action at football matches.

Liza - sorry I didn't get back around to this thread earlier. If you are shooting night football, it is a whole different game. I am not comfotable with using a flash at these games.... others have had reasonable luck - to me they don't look like how the game looked.... for day I always shoot as wide open as I can at 2.8 or f4 with a TC. ISO started at 200 and ended at 800 - keeping shutter up above 800 - which is usually fast enough for football. For night it is wide open as usual - ISO 1600 or 3200, shutter pegged at the slowest 320, I will go ahead and under expose if need be. All my mud bowl game shots were underexposed. I don't recall if you have a 135 f2.0 - but I think for highschool since you have more latitude to roam the sidelines, it may work really well and give you that extra speed. So if you have it.. try it. If you are willing to use flash... there are a couple others that would be better then I to respond.

Cheers and thanks again.

[bkstyl]

I really like picture #2 but all of them are great!!!!

[QUASIPHOTO]

Great shots!!! These were all shot with your 70-200? Amazing.

[liza]

Thanks for tips, Croasdail!