The Olympic Games are currently going on, and since it is our female athletes who are grabbing all of the medals and headlines, this seems to be a good time for some more sporting ladies here on the blog. My friends Grace and Sarah once again asked me to photograph their soccer game this past Sunday. It was their final regular season game, so I figured I had better show up because their might not be another game to be played afterwards. Especially with the Curse of the Photographer still hanging over the head of all my sporting friends who invite me to their games. This time I tried to focus more on the game action, rather than the play of my two friends. 
The lighting was still terrible, meaning high ISO's, not enough shutter speed and some noise in the photographs, but that was to be expected. Despite those strikes against me from the beginning, I still managed grab some pretty nice action shots, and some very nice facial reactions. Lots of action and lots of intensity. Two things that I like to see in my sports photographs. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 100mm and the second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO1600 at 145mm. Get yourself comfortable and grab a bowl of popcorn, here are several more photographs that I took during the game.
The lighting was still terrible, meaning high ISO's, not enough shutter speed and some noise in the photographs, but that was to be expected. Despite those strikes against me from the beginning, I still managed grab some pretty nice action shots, and some very nice facial reactions. Lots of action and lots of intensity. Two things that I like to see in my sports photographs. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 100mm and the second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO1600 at 145mm. Get yourself comfortable and grab a bowl of popcorn, here are several more photographs that I took during the game.
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 80mm
f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 142mm
f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 142mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 90mm
f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 125mm
f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 190mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 142mm
f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 88mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm
f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 1600 at 160mm
Quite the collection. Best of all, the girls beat the jinx! And with style. I believe the final score was 6-2. The game was so out of hand that I was told by Grace and Sarah that late in the match, the girls were telling each other to kick the ball in my direction so that they could end up in some of the photographs. I hope that those who wished to be photographed managed to find themselves in the above pictures. Good luck in the play-offs ladies, maybe our paths will cross once again.
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