Night Football: First attempt at shooting a football game at night. D500 70-200 2.8 SB 700 flash set on Manual Noise reduction used Comments welcome...

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Oct 28, 2017 01:25:54 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

First attempt at shooting a football game at night.
D500
70-200 2.8
SB 700 flash set on Manual
Noise reduction used
Comments welcome

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Oct 28, 2017 09:12:29 #

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Great results!

Oct 29, 2017 06:19:22 #

aaciolkowski Loc: Sugar Grove Illinois

Looks like the flash really helped.

Oct 29, 2017 07:04:15 #

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

Jules Karney wrote:

First attempt at shooting a football game at night.
D500
70-200 2.8
SB 700 flash set on Manual
Noise reduction used
Comments welcome

Hey Jules, how are you doing? Excellent photos, did real well. Look forward to seeing the rest on MaxPreps. What were your settings for these. Really sharp for night photos. Thanks

Tom

Oct 29, 2017 09:53:34 #

david vt Loc: Vermont

I like these a lot

Not sure, based on the shadows, that I understand how/when you were using the flash (except perhaps the cheerleaders).

I too would like to know your settings on the various shots. It first I thought you were indicating f2.8,but now I think that is just the lens. Your sharpness is nice, balanced by good DoF

Can I ask what AF pattern you are using, especially on the non-single subject shots? I have been using D9 on my Nikon, but occasionally find that I shoot “through the gap”, especially on 2 player type shots like what you have on the catch. (Or was that a larger shot where you focused on one of them, and then cropped it in PP to be centered?

Love your shots

Oct 29, 2017 10:11:39 #

Thomas902 Loc: Washington DC

As always good stuff here Jules...
Especially the first/last where you totally nailed the decisive moment...
Looks like you're becoming popular with Cheerleaders who are certainly not camera shy...

Thank you for sharing...

Oct 29, 2017 10:20:05 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

CHG_CANON wrote:

Great results!

Thanks chg, appreciate it.

Oct 29, 2017 10:21:05 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Thomas902 wrote:

Hey Thomas how are you? Yeah the cheerleaders love the camera. It's fun.

Oct 29, 2017 10:28:31 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

tshift wrote:

Hey Jules, how are you doing? Excellent photos, did real well. Look forward to seeing the rest on MaxPreps. What were your settings for these. Really sharp for night photos. Thanks

Tom

Hi Tom: The first game was a challenge for sure.
Settings: Nikon D500, 70-200 2.8, flash SB 700 set on manual full power, 1/640 at 2.8. focus used was group focus Iso 6400 used noise reduction in pp.
The cheerleader and band shots (seen on Maxpreps) were shot with D7100 sb 600 flash on ttl. Used program mode on camera. and adjusted exposure comp when needed. I should have put more batteries in both flashes at halftime. did okay though. The flashes needed that little boast the second part of the night.

Oct 29, 2017 10:37:50 #

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

These are really nice photos. Great stop-action images. Good timing. Good clarity.

Oct 29, 2017 10:49:29 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

david vt wrote:

I like these a lot br br Not sure, based on the s... (show quote)

Hi David: It was quite a night, tired at the end for sure. All my settings I told Tom, so take a look at them. I try to focus on a player using group focus mode. D9 is probably like a group with a main center spot surrounded by other focus points. I find it difficult to use single focus at my age following a player running across the field, group focus works fine for me. Practice using your different modes. Steve Perry here at Ugly has a wonderful tutorial about the focus modes on Nikon and Canon.
Thanks for your comments and for looking.
Jules

Oct 29, 2017 10:50:25 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

aaciolkowski wrote:

Looks like the flash really helped.

The flash helps a bunch. These football fields are not lit up all that good.

Oct 29, 2017 12:15:24 #

Japakomom Loc: Originally from the Last Frontier

Nice job!
You are allowed to use flash at your night football games? Wow! Not allowed where I am - no flash for any of the high school games. I am jealous!
Is your flash off or on camera?

Oct 29, 2017 15:21:11 #

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Japakomom wrote:

Nice job!
You are allowed to use flash at your night football games? Wow! Not allowed where I am - no flash for any of the high school games. I am jealous!
Is your flash off or on camera?

Hi Japakomom:
Yes we can shoot with flash here in Las Vegas. The flash is on the camera.
Have a good day.
Jules

Nov 1, 2017 08:29:15 #

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

Jules Karney wrote:

First attempt at shooting a football game at night.
D500
70-200 2.8
SB 700 flash set on Manual
Noise reduction used
Comments welcome

Jules these are great...
Great job with the first one on capturing the ball just being released by the QB

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