NCAA Football: Illinois 20, Lousiana-Lafayette 17

dmwierz wrote in post #6305673
Adam,

Nope. That feature didn't come until the MkIII (I believe, as I don't have a MkIII).

Ah. Wasnt aware.

Ive tried it a little bit myself but I cant decide if I really like it or not. It reduces the available shots in your buffer and I think Id rather just change my aperture/ISO a couple clicks on the fly instead of letting the camera do it for me.

I will ask you one question though. Is there any reason why you prefer to change the ISO over the aperture?

AdamLewis wrote in post #6305703
Ah. Wasnt aware.

Ive tried it a little bit myself but I cant decide if I really like it or not. It reduces the available shots in your buffer and I think Id rather just change my aperture/ISO a couple clicks on the fly instead of letting the camera do it for me.

I will ask you one question though. Is there any reason why you prefer to change the ISO over the aperture?

Actually, I change them both. If there's a lot of "air" behind the play, I'll stop down the aperture first. If the players are close to the end zone (and I'm shooting long glass down the field) or if I'm shooting across the field and the other sideline is close to the players on the far side, I'll prefer to be as wide open as I can and then I'll change the ISO if needed.

Either way works, though.

DW

Great work Dennis. You set the bar high for the rest of us!

Matt - thanks for the kind words.

Great as always Dennis!

Looks good DW, at least it was dry. How about all of this rain this weekend?

Nice looking work ... kind lighting too. The spray from the turf is just pretty cool. All we have down here is the old fashion stuff. Thanks for posting.

Nice work DW, now if we could get these players to quite wearing those stupid face shields.

Those look really great.

Thanks for posting the last pic. The difference in perspective really makes your point about kneeling--even your usual excellent images.

I've changed my technique.

Phil

Two technique questions:

1. What are your rules/situations/guide​lines for when you add the 1.4 TC to your 400? ( I am using the 300 2.8 )

2. WRT shots of a receiver catching the ball downfield, do you 'guess' and follow one receiver in a pass situation and if not, how do you get your camera aimed on the proper player in time to lock focus/composition? Two eyes open? Follow QB eyes to receiver?

Phil,

I was shooting from behind the line of scrimmage to catch the defense. Having both eyes open, as soon as it was clear there was a pass, I looked down field to where the pass was going, then swung and re-focused. Here's another one - but this one was "ruined" for me by it being shot at the far end of the lens' range and therefore with a larger depth of field, and the fact that "TV Guy" , "TV Cable Guy" and "TV Time Out Man with Red Hat" where all right behind the receiver/defender. You gotta love the TV Dudes, right?

The background in this shot is WAY too busy...one more reason to shoot from the end zone for most of the time.

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Cannot say enough about your shots, Dennis. Obviously a reason you are standing on the sidelines vs sitting in the stands for games like this.

beautiful stuff Dennis. truly. curious as to how you meter when you are using av in a situation like this. I shot a game tonight where lighting was quite variable and used manual since the last time I shot av I got some odd exposures every now and then. Should I assume that if the unis are relatively balanced (as in not white on one side vs any dark color on the other) then cwa, othewise eval?

anxious to hear what you say. in the meantime, amazing stuff (but psst, check your horizon in #7 its too good an image not to unless it was just too tight to fix)

Thanks to all for the positive words.

Scott, nothing magic on Av exposure. I just monitor the histogram for exposure and leave the highlight blinky thing on. Also watch shutter speed, and if/when it gets to low or too high, I change the ISO. I also try to look at the LCD (not always reliable, but one more piece of data) to see how facial exposures are working out, and adjust EC as needed.

Regarding the horizon on #7, you got me curious so I checked. There is a temporary fence in the background and as far as I can tell, the vertical portions are vertical. I think it may be an optical illusion from the perspective of shooting from the back corner of the end zone. That's one reason why football "horizons" are often not horizontal.

Thanks again for looking.

Dennis