May I see your best soccer photo?

I have been covering my local clubs for sometime now. I use a Nikon D3100, with a Sigma 70-300 lens. I always stay on the outside, so that I can wander around the ground at will. My favourite location is the halfway point, you then do not get linesmen running in front of you, or halfway to the corner flag.

I prefer to use the camera on its sports setting in auto. That way you need not worry about the focussing side of things. The action tends to come in bursts, so a knowledge of the game is a good start. Another thing I love to do at games is work the crowds, have a talk, laugh or take their photo. That way, they will go looking for themselves on your site, they in turn will let friends know and so it goes on. Or hand out cards with your details on. On matchdays, I start with the teams warming up, then coming onto the field and then the game itself. I also look for that amusing look, action etc.

I have been photographing my son and his teams for the last eight years and have become obsessed with fotball(soccer for the US) photography. Familyphotos I do take, but nothing else really. My cameras and objectives have grown with the fieldsize and now I use a Canon 7d Mark II with an EF 100-400 USM lense.

What I struggle with are the articifical grass fields(polarizing filter helps somewhat), really sunny days(I have started to love grey skies) and floodlight in the evening.

<p>I mostly shoot basketball and often use a remote. When I got the chance to shoot a soccer game, I set up a remote behind the goal and got this shot:</p><div>[ATTACH=full]592243[/ATTACH]</div>

This one I love. I might ask to try it when shooting younger kids the next time. There tend to be so many around the ball.....

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What I struggle with are the articifical grass fields(polarizing filter helps somewhat), really sunny days(I have started to love grey skies) and floodlight in the evening.

Is the first image taken at Gothia Cup/Gothenburg Sweden? It looks like one of the fields my son's team played at.

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Is the first image taken at Gothia Cup/Gothenburg Sweden? It looks like one of the fields my son's team played at.

nope. I am Swedish but we live in Bern, Switzerland. Would love to go to that tournament though.

So its not what I consider one of the best shots but its an entertaining image...

Defender goes in for a slide tackle and ends up getting his shorts torn apart...

The one I like the most from the past weekend:

D750 + AF-S 300/2.8 1st version, cropped a good bit

Hello, I have been shooting children's soccer games for the past few years.

Although I am a rank amateur, parents really enjoy the finished photographs,

which has given me the encouragement and feedback that I need to improve. This

has also made me wonder about the experiences and expertise of other people who

photograph soccer matches. So here are my questions: What ways of photographing

soccer games have helped you get great shots and would you please show me your

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A couple taken with my brand new Tamron 70-200 f2.8 G2. Best purchase I have made. Certainly improved the technical quality of my shots i.e. Clarity, colour, contrast, DoF/blurred background and importantly focus.

I shoot high school soccer on the field, so I am shooting ACROSS the field. This gave me some metering problems, as we play NIGHT games.

At night the background beyond the field is DARK, so if I am pointed in that direction, the meter looks at the DARK background and increases the exposure, so the player is over exposed.

My technique for handling that is to use single point AF, and set the active AF point to center +1 high. So the camera is pointed down slightly.

Then I set the meter mode to center weight. This forces the camera to meter the center of the screen.

With the combination of these 2, I put the AF on the player, and am metering the ground just in front of the player. This generally works OK.

The only exceptions are:

- When the player jumps up, and I try to track his jump. Then the center of the screen, and the meter, reads a higher and darker part of the image, and I get them overexposed.

- LONG shots to the other side of the field. Because of the flat angle, I am metering the brighter central part of the field, not the darker edges of the field.

Must be my best - because it's the only one

the agony of defeat

 I have same, here are one of them

On 8/30/2017 at 7:39 PM, thejohnsons said:

 

A couple taken with my brand new Tamron 70-200 f2.8 G2. Best purchase I have made. Certainly improved the technical quality of my shots i.e. Clarity, colour, contrast, DoF/blurred background and importantly focus.

 

 

I really like it, so emotional.