Lady Lions Volleyball

A few from this season.

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can you post your setup, no exif data available on those images.

IMPO they need to be straightened

Canon 20D + 85mm f/1.8

from my experience .. volleyball is the hardest sport to shoot.. even harder than night football.. nice shots

liza wrote in post #4097509
Canon 20D + 85mm f/1.8

Do you remember your F you used and shutter and iso?

AthleticsPhotog wrote in post #4100380
Do you remember your F you used and shutter and iso?

Here's a gallery link. Feel free to check out the exif on any and all of the shots posted.

http://www.emphotograp​hy.smugmug.com/gallery​/3497144#197146309

chaosbunny wrote in post #4100345
from my experience .. volleyball is the hardest sport to shoot.. even harder than night football.. nice shots

Thanks. I shoot both, and I'd have to agree with you, although baseball is probably the most difficult of any of the sports I shoot.

liza wrote in post #4100400
Here's a gallery link. Feel free to check out the exif on any and all of the shots posted.

http://www.emphotograp​hy.smugmug.com/gallery​/3497144#197146309

Nice. Images look very nice and sharp. Plus very light. Is that the super expensive 85mm or the normal one?

It's the 1.8 version. The L isn't appropriate for sports because the extra glass in it actually makes the focusing mechanism slower. For gym sports, the 1.8 rules!

looks great, and your football shots as well.

I love hearing people compare which sport is the hardest to shoot. I'm curious, what do you think contributes to the difficulty of shooting? Here's my list

1. The venue - ie things like lighting, availability of spots to gain desirable line of site, position relative to action (how close can you get to take a viable shot in the appropriate context to communicate the event),
   
2. The nature of the action - slow vs. fast, team vs. individual,
   
3. Technical aspects of your equipment - Which can change the importance of the previous factors,
   
4. Your interest in the sport - If you aren't really interested, regardless of your talent, it will see harder, and
   
5. Most importantly, your knowledge of or aptitude in the sport. If you don't understand the sport, winning shots will be luck or merely copy cat.

Very nice shots Liza. I know how hard it is to get good volleyball shots. Man I miss shooting HS sports. My youngest is now in College and of course they are not in as many sports in college.

Liza,
wow awesome VB shots. I have the 85mm 1.8 lens and have yet to use it for VB, but I think I will now that I have seen yours, I have been using my Sigma 70-200 2.8 working nice, but sometimes the hands or ball will have the blurr look, I don't like that, I like your crisp clear pictures

liza wrote in post #4100435
It's the 1.8 version. The L isn't appropriate for sports because the extra glass in it actually makes the focusing mechanism slower. For gym sports, the 1.8 rules!

Good to know. The image quality is very good. Did you run it thru noise reduction tools like neat image ?