Saturday's Non-League footie

[DarrenL]

Excuses first, all the images were from the goaline which was a first for me. I really struggled as I've not shot footie for almost 2 months and with only 1 body I was way to close to the action sometimes.

Now, a few images from me from my local Non-league side. All shot on a 1D with 300mm F4 on various settings. EXIF data is intact.



#1 - Standard action, nothing exciting going on here
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4228.jpg

#2 - Cut the head off, but ouch!!
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4307.jpg

#3 - Standard action again
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4336.jpg

#4 - Goalie saved without many problems
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4339.jpg

#5 - Desperate to avoid the game running into Extra Time
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4452.jpg

#6 - Perfected slide tackle.
http://www.dlactionimages.co.uk/forumimages/62dc4511.jpg

Darren

[cpo13]

Good stuff Darren - looks like Westfield if I'm not mistaken. The last one shows it must have been tough at the end - down to 1/320 at 3200 on the 1D.

[Tall_Paul_2000]

Darren,

Nice work there - #4 is the pick of the bunch for me. Light must have faded off dramatically, what with going from ISO200 through to ISO3200!

Was having a little bit of a play around with ISO3200 towards the end of today's match and had some okish results, although found that overexposing by 1/3 stop dramatically improved things.

Good work though - and looked kinda muddy from your pics in the other thread!!!

[DarrenL]

Thanks Chris, you are correct Lancing FC (my local side) vs Westfield in the Sussex County Division Two Challenge Cup. The amount of cup ties in non league football is a joke. F.A. Cup, F.A. Vase, R.U.R. Cup, John O'Hara League Challenge Cup, Division Two Challenge Cup, S.C.F.A. Senior Cup, Brighton Charity Cup to name just a few.

Thanks Paul, the light was all over the shop but it stayed bright until gone 5pm so I was able to shoot the whole game with my F4. Normally I give up at half time as the readings are laughable in winter. I must admit I do like shooting from the goal line but I don't really think it's possible without a shorter lens on a 2nd body. There were times when a 70-200 or even a 24-70 would have been great.

It was muddy and the goalmouths were in a hell of a state, sand at the ready. But not as bad as the Birmingham pitch from what I've heard. I've not seen MOTD yet so I'll try and catch it tonight.

Darren

[KIPAX]

Excellent pics... I did Skelmersdale v Clitheroe non league on sat... Absoloutly perfect pitch.. I am starting to hate this 10d... keeper rate is very poor :(

http://www.kipax.com/mbgfx/skem.jpg

[DarrenL]

Thanks KIPAX. Pic looks great to me.

I went from a 10D to a 1D and my keeper rate (purley based on OOF shots) increases from about 40% to about 85/90%.

Darren