Over the last few months that constitute the summer of 2010, I have been able to sharpen my shooting skills at local soccer games. Having failed miserably in the past to shoot film, the digital medium seems to be far kinder to me for a variety of reasons.
The viewer doesn't see my mistakes - crooked horizons, out-of-focus shots, erroneous exposures, and poor composition. Post-processing makes all of these warts go away.
Today's U12 provincial games were held at Centre Consolidated School. I soon noticed they had an exceptional field, with nice backgrounds. The lighting was just perfect, I could use 1/800th - 1/1000th second @ f/5.6 while the ISO was kept to 400, it was pretty consistent all day. My trusty Nikon 70-300mm VR is amazingly sharp even wide-open for a "consumer" zoom, but it's all about timing as much as the camera's ability to track and maintain focus. The lowly entry-level D60 body works great and I don't seem to miss a beat with its meager 3-point AF system.
The girls played very well, there wasn't any high-scoring contests and no blow-outs. New Germany won their first game by 1-0 (one to nil for you soccer affectionados) but fell behind 3-0 to a tougher opponent in the last game. The contest came to an abrupt ending when one of New Germany players got seriously injured, requiring an ambulance. Such is the reminder that athletic endeavors can have consequences at any level.
My old blog was filling up as bandwidth is scarily limited, I guess I shoot too much=) So, I added this to my second Gmail account and I now have almost a limitless amount of storage. One can never have enough digital files on the Web if he/she is trying to market one's work.
I intend to make all of my crops to fit the standard 4x6 proof size as any of these images are for sale, if anyone is interested.
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