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Aer Rianta v Rathcoole, Alsaa.
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Was out at my daughters U11 Bantam bowling competition in Alsaa last Sunday, and while I was there I noticed a football match was being played as well. So couldn’t resist trying a few shots. I’ve never photographed a live sport event before and it probably shows, plus the max focal length if my lens is just 135mm.
Still, it was fun trying. Any comments and tips gratefully accepted.
Robbie
8)Wouldn’t know how to C&C football shots Robbie but exposure and edits look good to me. Jayzuz … that goalie looks uncomfortable! Looks like something from Naked Camera or whatever-its-called on Network 2.
Great defence by the green stripes – 7 players plus the keeper within the 6 yard box!! :lol: :lol:
joe_elway wrote:
Wouldn’t know how to C&C football shots Robbie but exposure and edits look good to me.
Me neither Aiden..bit out of my depth here methinks… :D But was actually fun shooting this. It’s amazing the number of facial expressions and almost balletic contortions that you catch when you do.
Be fun some time to shoot it from an artistic point of view, but you’d need a seriously good lens I think.
Ross…I’ll take your word for it…and as far as I know the greens (Rathcoole) won 3-0 and were promoted to the Senior division, so you may be right… :D
Robbie have to agree about the keepers expressions wouldn’t be too confident with him as the last line of defence :lol: .
You must have been going for the most players in one picture that wasn’t a team shoot. They do be fun but hard work at the same time.
SodaIt’s funny Carl, but he spent the whole time I watched screaming at the other players, was the most vocal keeper I’ve ever seen anyway. From what I picked up in the paper afterwards, he must have been safe enough anyway, as he didn’t concede any. I think the time I was there must have been a good spell for Aer Rianta, the red stripes.
It has got me interested in trying this again mind you, maybe try some park football and get in a bit closer to the action. :D
I like a goalie that forcefully directs his defenders. Loved how Schmeichel used to look like a nutter back there. It’d be interseting to see some guidelines on shooting this type of shot. I’d probably just go in and shoot, maybe try to pick out individuals on zoom or pairs of players in action. I wonder if there are any compositional guidelines. Must google that up when my human cloning machine gets in from EBay.
Yeah. Be curious myself. I suppose the easiet thing is to look in the sports section of newspapers. I did take quite a lot of one on one pics, but was very limited by the lens, as I just couldn’t get close enough. I was dying for someone to fly into a sliding tackle close to my position, but alas it never happened.
I really love the different facial expressions that you see though, they really do run the full gamut. Would have been great to catch a goal, but again, was still 0-0 when I left, so I missed all the action :roll:
Excellent Robbie, my dad manages a soccer team so he’s at me all of the time to take shots. These are great, super colours, exposure looks great, super action shots and well framed.
Thanks Ali Bali :D Would have thought you’d have jumped at the chance to go shoot some big muscley men..? :twisted:
Robbie
Never mind Miss Boland and her muscleymen. Try a real sport of hurling or Gaelic football it wil;l keep you busy.
SodaHehehe!! Funny you should say that Carl. I was thinking that GAA might be more interesting to shoot as there is generally a lot more contact involved. I’ll just have to head over the local park someday soon and find a match to shoot.
Robbie you should try it especially not being involved with the team you will be able to concentrate better on what is happening.
SodaActually, I think soccer is harder to photograph than either football or hurling. In soccer, the players often pass the ball upon their very first contact with it. That means it’s only moving to their foot (or head) and away again.
In football, the players keep the ball a lot longer before passing (even just the act of picking it up slows it down enough to allow the photographer to keep up).
As to the shots above, what you could have done is to stay on the end line about 10 feet from that goal mouth. Action is always trying to move towards a goal, and that way the players (attackers) are looking at you. I have some shots taken at 70mm from the end line, and they are filled with one or 2 players. (gets scary when they full the frame at 70mm and they are still running towards you :-) and a tip – if the whole frame goes white with something like elvery written accross it, duck :-)
In terms of exposure, sharp, bright, (techy stuff) – these are super.
In terms of the harder bit, the action and the timing, and the content, you did very well, excellent actually!
As you’ve already said, the lens caught you out. A bit longer, and a bit faster (for less DOF) and I’ll bet you would have some cracking shots.
Merv.
Cheers Merv..some great pointers there that I will remember next time. I was thinking that I’d be better served at the end line, but the layout here didn’t allow it, as there is a running track all around the playing field. It’s quite an impressive set up for a senior league team, they even have spectator stands!! small ones..but stands still.
If I get a chance over the weekend I’ll see what’s going on in our local park and maybe try out those tips. Especially the one about the big white thing coming towards me.. :wink:
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