First couple times shooting sports

Let me know what you think. Pointers would be great. Thanks! The Razorback/Tide game was from the South End Zone, 12th row...

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you missed focus on quite a bit of the photos.. not bad otherwise..

The 2nd set from AR Razorbacks are pretty good. Lots of nice action, good color.

Not crazy about the yellow processing on the first set. I try to match white balance to the actual uniform colors and not worry about overprocessing sports at all. Of course, that's just MY taste.

dave

Looks pretty good aside from some of the focus, great job!

Thanks for the comments... I shoot with my 7D and a 70-200 2.8 IS so there really shouldn't be any reason that I can't get FOCUSED images... any pointers, focusing mode suggestions, any suggestions?

Also, the reason for the edits on the HS game was that the lighting was so strange, literally every other photo was properly colored, but the one in between was not... so the field went green, brown, green, brown... it was simpler to just apply the same edit to all of them, any thoughts on what would cause that? Pretty sure that my WB was set to Kelvin, don't remember the temp, but the point is it was AWB...

It is cycling lights.. nothing you can do about other than:

1) shoot with a flash set up seen in another thread

2) shoot at a low enough shutter speed that you dont get it, but then you might have too slow a shutter speed to stop motion.

Not sure how you're doing it but separating focus from exposure, and using center point (with assist i think it is) on the 7D should help. Other than that, it's all about practice, nice start.

polarbare wrote in post #11057548
Not sure how you're doing it but separating focus from exposure, and using center point (with assist i think it is) on the 7D should help. Other than that, it's all about practice, nice start.

RIght, right... have to remember to think of them differently, but I think that the exposure could be creating the "soft" focus...

I have my 7D set up to use "back button focusing"... I focus using my thumb on the * button, not the shutter button... then I am generally using the expanded single focus point... (you choose one of the 19 and it expands in each direction one focus point) I do this in my portrait work to help remember to compose the shot correctly (rule of thirds) but maybe I don't need to do that in shooting sports... should I just use the center and not worry about composing the subject to the rule of thirds?