A friend of mine currently plays football for the Champlain Cavaliers in Saint-Lambert. He mentioned that his team would be playing a game this past Sunday and though I had something else planned, I managed to pass by long enough to catch a quarter of the game. During that time, I was lucky enough to have a touchdown scored almost exactly where I was positioned. Sadly, it wasn't Champlain that scored, but as a photographer I couldn't have been happier to capture the moment. There's lots of action on the football field, and lots of people moving around. That means using a large aperture and fast camera speeds to make sure that all of the action is not only in focus, but doesn't suffer from movement blur either. I also put my camera in burst mode because in sports, if you see the moment, that means you missed the moment on camera. I saw the quarterback get ready to throw and the receiver headed in my direction so I began shooting as soon as the quarterback began to throw and caught the whole scene. The first photograph was taken at f/14, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 105mm. Here are the rest of the series.
f/14, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
f/14, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
f/14, 1/200sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
f/14, 1/200sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
f/14, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
Because I was shooting in burst mode, there wasn't much of a change in how the photographs were shot. The speed changed a little bit since I was shooting in AV. I upped the ISO to 400 for these photos because after taking a few earlier shots at ISO 100, it wasn't giving me enough speed. Boosting up to ISO 400 gave me the speed I needed, and enough leeway to shoot in AV and burst without having the shutter speed get to slow. I took a few more photos during my time at the game and I'll share them with you at a later time.
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