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1. Tried to copy Kevin's idea of a backlit image. It is nice to be rid of the face mask shadow.

300mm, f/2.8 ISO 800, 1/4000

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1,2 and 8 are very nice. What was the call on #4? Good work.

Nice stuff, love the colors Dr Z.. I spent about an hour on that field friday shooting some of the Valley athletes for an advertisement.

wow. number 1 is amazing. awesome job!! i would love to have pictures that looked this good!

what is up with the bokeh in number 1? just to the left of his head? looks like you messed up when pp'ing

canonnoob wrote in post #8674299
what is up with the bokeh in number 1? just to the left of his head? looks like you messed up when pp'ing

Im glad I wasnt just seeing that in my post-saturday night-party mindset. Loooks like you cloned some weirdness in there.

johndevane wrote in post #8673624
What was the call on #4?

The call was the runner was down on the one yard line before the fumble. First and goal, they later scored the TD. A lot can happen in one second!

liam5100 wrote in post #8673656
Nice stuff, love the colors Dr Z.. I spent about an hour on that field friday shooting some of the Valley athletes for an advertisement.

Dang, I'd wish we had gotten together.

canonnoob wrote in post #8674299
what is up with the bokeh in number 1? just to the left of his head? looks like you messed up when pp'ing

zelseman wrote in post #8674799
Im glad I wasnt just seeing that in my post-saturday night-party mindset. Loooks like you cloned some weirdness in there.

Two answers:

1. I have no idea!

2. At the time I was doing this, there was some smoke from the BBQ pits wafting across the area. I remember being concerned that the smoke would ruin this series of shots. This could be light hitting particles from the smoke. ?

One more from that series without the dots.

I like them Phil. I have a pretty similar photo to #4 for the winning td with 4 seconds to go. Why are you shooting such high iso? Doesn't seem like it was needed.

Nice shots Phil.

I find when shooting backlit you get all sorts of weird things showing up in the background that really take on an alien effect when you factor in the OOF caused by shooting with long glass at wide apertures. Bugs and debris in the air seem to be the most common.

Nice series at the goal line. Looks like a very nice play by the defender to force the fumble.

Phil:

those are fantastic! The color pop is so on the money. And I see even early in the game you're shooting wide open with really fast shutter speeds. I'm going to try that next week. Maybe my shots will be a little 'crisper' like yours.

Great stuff. Just beautiful results.

dave

Dan-o wrote in post #8675459
I have a pretty similar photo to #4 for the winning td with 4 seconds to go. Why are you shooting such high iso? Doesn't seem like it was needed.

We lost this one 41-42 in overtime.

You are right, the high ISO is excessive. Typically, if I'm shooting into darkening conditions, I'll bump the ISO up to get a 1/2500 SS or so and then let the SS drop as it gets darker. Here I screwed up and got carried away. No need for SS this fast even with partly cloudy skies. Do as I say and not as I did.

Big K wrote in post #8675463
I find when shooting backlit you get all sorts of weird things showing up in the background that really take on an alien effect when you factor in the OOF caused by shooting with long glass at wide apertures. Bugs and debris in the air seem to be the most common.

Nice series at the goal line. Looks like a very nice play by the defender to force the fumble.

Here is another one from the series with similar artifacts. Check the corner of the left eye, neck, and left shoulder as well as the background. I'm sticking with the smoke particle theory. It may or may not be true.

snyderman wrote in post #8675693
Phil:

those are fantastic! The color pop is so on the money. And I see even early in the game you're shooting wide open with really fast shutter speeds. I'm going to try that next week. Maybe my shots will be a little 'crisper' like yours.

Great stuff. Just beautiful results.

dave

Dave,

No need to get too carried away with SS. The 1D III allows me to shoot very high ISO with only a small IQ penalty so sometimes I go overboard on ISO. A SS of 1/1000 or 1/1250 is plenty fast. Remember that 1/640 is my minimum. Don't copy my mistakes!

Phil

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Phil,

You might also check the front element and see if you have any small oil spots on it. They won't show up in normal lighting conditions but sometimes they can cause funky effects when shooting backlit. The smoke particle theory is also very possible.

Have a good week.

Big K wrote in post #8676271
Phil,

You might also check the front element and see if you have any small oil spots on it.

Zivnuska wrote in post #8675864
Here is another one from the series with similar artifacts.

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I really like 4, 6, and 8. The series for number 4 is amazing. 8 is a great capture, very crisp. However 6 is not a horse collar still good capture