Football! Some offense, some defense, some cheerleaders (8 pics)

I love these!! They are so sharp and great captures. Just perfect!

Superdiver, mudbug46, and Erica, thank you.

The colors on those just blow my mind! Super Crisp, super saturate, really amazing!

Thats good work there!

these are excellent but I will say I find your watermark(s) obtrusive and they ruin a few of the images for me...I understand your desire to protect your work but...

Cheers,

The 2nd shot is great. I love the composition and the look in the runner's eyes.

symes wrote in post #2137823
these are excellent but I will say I find your watermark(s) obtrusive and they ruin a few of the images for me...I understand your desire to protect your work but

Thanks a lot for the input. I really hate my watermark and want to take the time to fix it. Do you find the bright logo or the text overlay most distracting?

Chris that is a brilliant collection you have there! Super sharp and colours are spot on. I was hoping you had a Sigma 120-300 f2.8 that you had used for them so that I had something to aspire to But my budget cannot reach to the 300 f2.8IS Great shots and thanks for sharing.
Cheers Ricky

rickydiver wrote in post #2138193
I was hoping you had a Sigma 120-300 f2.8 that you had used for them so that I had something to aspire to But my budget cannot reach to the 300 f2.8IS Great shots and thanks for sharing.

Thanks. My budget doesn't allow for a 300 f/2.8 at the moment either I borrowed this lens for this particular game to experiment. My realistic goal is the Sigma 120-300 as well and from what I've seen on this board, I'm 100% sure it will work as well as the 300 prime for my purposes. The sigma is amazing.

Ah well, I dont feel so bad now Hope you have better luck than I have had. I am still waiting on a re-calibration chip to be fitted from Sigma UK. Hopefully done next week though
Cheers Ricky

Amazing photos!

Very impressive work. I find the second shot to be simply stunning. Inspiring photos.

What are the best settings to use on my Canon Rebel EOS if I want to shoot action shots at night using a 75-300mm lense on the sideline? We only have night games for our high school and I am not having alot of luck.

mommag3404 wrote in post #2147248
What are the best settings to use on my Canon Rebel EOS if I want to shoot action shots at night using a 75-300mm lense on the sideline? We only have night games for our high school and I am not having alot of luck.

You may just not have enough light at night with that lens but to test you could do the following. Set ISO to 1600 and place the camera into AV mode. Start at the 75 end of the lens and set the apeture to 4. At this point see what kinds of shutter speeds you are getting. Hopefully it will be over 300ths of a second. If so you can adjust ISO down if you have enough light. You'll need to see what kind of shutter speeds you can achieve and as you go further out in reach with the lens the apeture will raise forcing a slower shutter speed. Good luck!

Thank you so much. I'll try that at the game tomight. I am great on the baseball field, and I can follow the action, but parts of the pics are focuseed and parts are not. Thanks for your help. I' trying to learn.