Water Polo 1st RAW Game

This was my 1st time shooting the whole game RAW, most games I get about 300 to 400 images and felt overwhelmed at processing that many, and most of the images were just for the web. But parents are buying my prints now, and I need the control of shooting Raw to get a better product.

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1600 sec , ISO 400, F7.1, 300mm 2.8 IS


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I don't come to sport section, but because i got that fast sport camera and later i am thinking to add new sport long prime lens i came here, and saw your shots.
All what i can say is ....... AMAZING (and no more comments).

I have to buy one long lens beginning of next year.

Nice shots. Really like the first shot, you caught the action and the facial expression well.

Are you using key words in the Meta data, I find it helps when trying to find shots of players as the season goes on? RAW takes extra time but it worth it, IMHO.
The water coming off the ball and the players face is really nice.

Great shots.

Webmonkey,

These simply stunning .

So my question is why F7.1 and not a small aperature with that beautiful lens.

Thanks
Roy

carsanbballs wrote in post #2215372
Are you using key words in the Meta data, I find it helps when trying to find shots of players as the season goes on? RAW takes extra time but it worth it, IMHO.
The water coming off the ball and the players face is really nice.

Yea I'm useing Breeze for that, but I just started boing it.

OTTA
I shoot a higher F stops because the action is fast and I get more keepers, in the 1st image the ball in starting to blur. The AF on this lens is very fast, probably faster then my reaction time so shooting at 2.8 will look better but I may have missed this shoot. The image below is wide open and with 580

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Both are very nice shots. #1 is my favorite. You stopped the action and the water quite nicely. You captured a great expression on his face as well.

Thanks for sharing these. I've never seen water polo shots on here before.

Do you thing the image would be enhanced if I remove the water drops from the shooter face. It looks like milk to me.

nice job there

WebMonkey wrote in post #2215821
Do you thing the image would be enhanced if I remove the water drops from the shooter face. It looks like milk to me.

I'm no expert, by any means, but my opinion is that they should stay. It's real, it's part of the image. It shows the action. I don't find it distracting.

That's just my 2 cents.

Otta
Added a shot above to show wide open.

Wow, i'm gonna have to give RAW a try one of these days...

Nice - wish we had the sport out here to shoot. Very nice color..... well done.

The 3rd one is really fabulous as well!

Excellent shots. How close are you when taking these?