jerry_milroy Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 <p>I have a Nikon D300, I have tried to shot some soccer thur the net. I can get it sometimes but most of the time the camera is focusing on the net. How can I get more keeper shots.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_george1 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 <p>You have 2 choices.<br> The best one is to use manual focus -- I know it's scary but try it.<br> The other one is to use a smaller aperture -- f8 or maybe f11 to give you added depth of field</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_mann1 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 <p>Since you don't seem to be interested in cross-field shots or angled shots where you are looking around the net, only shots through the net, I'll address only those.</p> <p>If it's childrens' soccer and you are allowed to go right up to the net, just shoot through a gap in the net, but be ready to move back quickly if a fast ball is headed right towards your lens hood. ;-) Get used to keeping both eyes open when shooting: One looking through the viewfinder, the other for situational awareness.</p> <p>Another possibility not already mentioned is to use a lens such as the 70/80-200 wide open (2.8). It has a focus limit switch. Set it to focus only on distant subjects, and then you can move a few feet back from the net, and the lens won't be able to focus on anything as close as the net. Obviously, you should always set your camera to use single-point focusing in such a situation.</p> <p>HTH,</p> <p>Tom M</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_milroy Posted September 12, 2010 Author Share Posted September 12, 2010 <p>It is kids soccer (10 year olds) I shoot everything with boths eyes open it makes tracking the action easier. The lens i have is a sigam 70/200 f2.8 it does not have a focus switch. I will try the single point focus. This is my frist time with soccer is any pointers are welcome. The field is not full size. I can cover about 2/3 of the field from one sideline spot. I lose the oppsite side of the field width wise and one goal. Lucky the kids are not that fast and i only have to move a short distance if the action on the farside gets good.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranmac Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 <p>The bigger the aperture set on your lens (f/2.8 vs f/8), along with a long lens (300mm vs 120mm), the better you'll be able to accomplish two items:<br> 1) Get your camera to focus on the subject and not the net, and<br> 2) Keep the net blurred and your subject in-focus.<br> I recently posted about accomplishing this on my sports photo blog, <a href="http://www.lensextender.com/2010/09/focusing-behind-the-net.html">Lens Extender</a>.<br> <img src="http://ranmac.smugmug.com/Sports/Soccer/Waza-Girls-U13-Fall-2010/Waza-Girls-vs-Down-River-Rush/1003435468_Y2whf-L.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="600" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 <p>Please do not post the same question to multiple forums.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josepharmand Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 <p>I agree with the two main concepts here, turn off the auto focus, and to help keep the quality of sharp photos, got with as high an f stop as your light will allow, getting your depth of field as deep as possible. great shots will happen, usually with volume of shots, experience, and sometimes, plain dumb luck!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josepharmand Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 <p>here's the shot I took<br> Canon 20D 24mm at f22</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoppix Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 <p>I think joe should have used much wider aperture so as to blur that distracting background. Good shot of the goalie in the air, but...no ball!<br>anyways, I'd suggest setting up on tripod behine goal, manual focus on the goal line on front edge of net. Wait for goalie to stand there and focus!<br>Then set aperture to give you maybe 8-10 feet DOF. Then set shutter at or over 1/500 sec. to stop action and get good exposure. Use the ISO to tweak the exposure value and stop action.<br>do all this while goalies are doing warm up practice. And...write down in notebook what you set everything at and how much or lack of sun you had that day.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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