HS Football Before/After: 1 Year later

[zelseman]

It has been a full year since I first shot sports for the first time. I shot the Homecoming game for my former high school. This is just to show how the wealth of knowledge here can really help a noobie with an Xti. The before pictures are from the 2008 Homecoming game( Xti and 75-300), and the after pictures are from the recent 2009 Homecoming game (30d and 70-200 f/2.8 ).

*Some of these, in the gold jerseys, were from the second game i had ever shot.

Before: *
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v3/p197402369-4.jpg

After:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v1/p199687703-4.jpg

Before:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v3/p420026671-4.jpg

After:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v4/p208615959-4.jpg

Before:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v6/p487054340-4.jpg

After:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v0/p224851207-4.jpg

Before: *
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v4/p518844524-4.jpg

After:
http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/img/v1/p126039083-4.jpg

Lighting on this field still sucks. But if anything has improved, my overall white balance and color tone has improved. The rest can be seen here:http://www.zachelsemanphotography.com/p200666906

C& C greatly appreciated!

[chris2683]

Colors have definitely improved. One year of practice does a lot.

[Rocketdun]

I think your shots improved. Shooting on most high school fields is like shooting in a tunnel. I just shot some 11-12 football games the later it got the higher the ISO by the time the game ended I shot the team shaking hands, and after game coaches lecture at 25,000. Yep they had about as much noise in the them as a firetruck with the siren blaring wide open. if you shoot basketball games they are such a treat too. You did improve

[zelseman]

Thanks! Yea I hate shooting low light sports, but you kinda have to. Im looking forward to basketball. Im going to pick up an 85 1.8 and shoot OCF. So it will be a little easier.
Thanks for the comments.