Girls HS Soccer

[DHMN69]

The match started 40 minutes late (visitor's bus got a flat) and perfect shooting conditions.. overcast and no sun, nor rain... midway into the second half the sun broke through and I was shooting right into it for a bit, then it got behind the trees and was nearly dark by the end of overtime on a field without lights. With the overcast sky, I left the 1.4 extender off and just shot 70-200 F2.8 ...

1. She (#2 in white) beats everyone down the field, almost every time.


2. Goalkeeper for the visitor was a sophomore and loved to challenge the forwards, she actually got called for a penalty late in the second half when she took out a rushing forward, then stopped the penalty shot


3. This challenge by the keeper didn't work, and no hand ball called either, whether it was or wasn't, it became a goal


4. I missed the actual kick going into the net but the player leaping the defender scored, notice the goalkeeper in the background with her hands on her head. I don't normally shoot through a soccer net but that's where I ended up at that moment.


5. As I mentioned above.. the sun came out and this was my view


THE REST

[armando_m]

Great Series

I actually like the shot against the sun and how it illuminates the hair of the players

[DGK*CRONE]

#2 looks like she really likes soccer. you can tell she knows more than the average person because of the shoe straps for tracking when you kick the ball.

cool pictures. the emotion in 4 is great but I like the first one the best. you can tell she is about to throw her shoulder into her and fight for the ball. You can see the rest of the team is just standing around instead of trying to gain a better position. pretty funny.

cool stuff.

[DHMN69]

A lot of the team (high school varsity even) seems to be out there just to get a 'letter' this year... there's a lot of sophomores on the team that get time because of a lack of 'hustle'.. #6, the goal scorer got injured near the end of the second half and could have a stress fracture so it's not good for their season.

[Old Timer]

Love everything about that first shot. Nice action all around.

[Pete7D]

Nice shots!!
What lens, ISO and speed did you used?

thanks

[DHMN69]

I use the Sigma 70-200 F2.8 for all sports.. depending on the light levels I put the 1.4 extender on and shoot at F4, but there wasn't a lot of light so I stayed short and F2.8...

A portion were ISO 800 in Av that put the shutter speeds between 1/2500 and 1/4000 that I remember seeing .. I wasn't paying that much attention at the time and could have gone down a bit on the ISO obviously.. The sun shots I went to ISO 320 and I think the shutter speed was around 1/1000. I don't have the EXIF plug-in on my Firefox BETA (wasn't a compatible one last I looked) so I can't quickly look at EXIF for different shots while getting ready to leave now.