60d and kids soccer ball

Here's my attempt at action, not the greatest but not half bad either for me. I'm using my 70-300 IS usm for the lens, which is probally saving my butt with the image stabilization it has. Anyway, could use some tips with the camera and such for this type of shooting. Actually the lighting is hard as well because you can't stage this type of shooting, you go with what you can get with where you think will be the best area to shoot, not always the case with the type of movement that takes place in this type of shooting. Either way, this is tough shooting!

Ooooh, here is one of the shots. My grand daughters first soccer ball game for her. A lot of it's kinda slow because there just learning, but as can be seen in this shot it was speeding up a bit.

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Actually quite a nice shot! I wish I could view the EXIF as I might be able to make better recommendations. One thing, if you haven't already, investigate the AI Servo setting on the camera and give that a try. In the image you've submitted it looks like the kids are moving left to right, but when you get an opportunity when they are moving more toward or away from you AI Servo will help on the focusing.

The other thing I would suggest is don't go in so tight. That leaves you some room to play to improve composition. For example the image you've supplied would look better with some space on the right as opposed to the space on the left (behind the young girl). Generally, motion type subjects should have room in the direction of motion.

I think this shot is fine photo wise. With some practice and experience you'll find yourself being able to position yourself and anticipate action to get even better shots.
Agreed with John, don't frame so tight (crop in post if you want tighter) and use AI Servo. Keep shooting!

Basic but good content on the focus modes of the 60D

http://www.dummies.com …de-on-a-canon-eos-60.html

We really need the exif intact to really help give some setting pointers. Your shutter speed seems appropriate. Your IS isn't helping you though. Your shutter speeds needed to stop action are more than sufficient to stop your hand movement.

I'm sorry, I know to give that information. Also, thanks so much for all the input!

Camera was set too Al servo, and evaluative mode. Exposure compensation is plus 2/3's. Aperture value was at 7.1 while the shutter was set at 1,000. I have auto lighting optimizer running in standard also. Running in tv mode, which for me in this type of shooting is easier then manual. All shot in raw files. The lighting changes too much for me in manual, so was thinking tv mode would be the best. I was able to recover highlights in photoshop lightroom, gotta love shooting raw!!

Lastly, I was running in high speed continuous which I also love using in this type of shooting.

I hope this gives a bit more information for you all to go on.

The hard part for me is timing, and I think the high speed continuous helped me there.

I was surprised to see where it was said the IS on my lens wasn't helping me, I thought for sure that was probally the biggest helper of all because the lens with the camera adds to the weight.

blackgold59 wrote in post #17148961
I'm sorry, I know to give that information. Also, thanks so much for all the input!

Camera was set too Al servo, and evaluative mode. Exposure compensation is plus 2/3's. Aperture value was at 7.1 while the shutter was set at 1,000. I have auto lighting optimizer running in standard also. Running in tv mode, which for me in this type of shooting is easier then manual. All shot in raw files. The lighting changes too much for me in manual, so was thinking tv mode would be the best. I was able to recover highlights in photoshop lightroom, gotta love shooting raw!!

Lastly, I was running in high speed continuous which I also love using in this type of shooting.

I hope this gives a bit more information for you all to go on.

The hard part for me is timing, and I think the high speed continuous helped me there.

I was surprised to see where it was said the IS on my lens wasn't helping me, I thought for sure that was probally the biggest helper of all because the lens with the camera for me is quite heavy. The weight of the camera for me is perfect but you add that lens on it and that is where I felt the IS was a helper.

I would say you are doing all the right things, and again I think your sample image shows that! On the IS, for one thing it can get confused if you are moving the camera, and you may wish to introduce some slow panning on shots moving side to side. There is also a school of thought that IS is of minimal benefit at the higher shutter speeds like the 1/1000 you used.

Ok, thank you very much for all the information..very much appreciated. I didn't know that about IS and the higher shutter speeds, so that something that was interesting.

blackgold59 wrote in post #17148471
Here's my attempt at action, not the greatest but not half bad either for me. I'm using my 70-300 IS usm for the lens, which is probally saving my butt with the image stabilization it has. Anyway, could use some tips with the camera and such for this type of shooting. Actually the lighting is hard as well because you can't stage this type of shooting, you go with what you can get with where you think will be the best area to shoot, not always the case with the type of movement that takes place in this type of shooting. Either way, this is tough shooting!

Ooooh, here is one of the shots. My grand daughters first soccer ball game for her. A lot of it's kinda slow because there just learning, but as can be seen in this shot it was speeding up a bit.

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nice shot - like others have indicated image stabilization won't help with higher shutter speeds in sports shooting. Post a few pics in the sports section and you'll get recommendations like getting lower to the kid's level, using AI servo, positioning yourself near the goals, cropping, etc.


random soccer pic with the 60D
(full field)
60D
Canon 100-400
f5.6
1/20000

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blackgold59 wrote in post #17148471
Here's my attempt at action, not the greatest but not half bad either for me. I'm using my 70-300 IS usm for the lens, which is probally saving my butt with the image stabilization it has. Anyway, could use some tips with the camera and such for this type of shooting. Actually the lighting is hard as well because you can't stage this type of shooting, you go with what you can get with where you think will be the best area to shoot, not always the case with the type of movement that takes place in this type of shooting. Either way, this is tough shooting!

Actual football images from a Canon 60D and a stabilized 70-300mm lens.