gray_ghost2 Loc: Antelope, (Sac) Ca.

This was a busy wkend with my grandkids and their sports. Friday was grandsons girlfriends, basktball game, she's #11. Sat was another grandson's wrestling tournement and Sunday was granddaughters soccer scrimmage.
My camera is a Canon 7D mii with AWB set at flousent for inside the 2 gyms and overcast for the soccer game. For the basketball game I used my Sigma 70-200 f2.8. The wrestling tournement and soccer scrimmage I used my Sigma 18-250 f3.5. Shooting indoors with either lens I had to push my ISO to 12800 and 16000. To me, the pic's look good but if you enlarge too much you will get noise. I know that high ISO's will produce noise. Only PP done was cropping, #4 was tweeked with color temp and tint plus the heavyset coaches face has been blocked out in #6.

Question is, did I push my ISO too much to get the freeze frame shot? Alright guys, go for it.

#1. f2.8;1/800; ISO 12800

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#2. f2.8; 1/1250; ISO 16000

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#3. f2.8; 1/1000; ISO 16000

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#4. f5.6; 1/1000; ISO 12800

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#5. f5.6; 1/640; ISO 12800

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#6. f6.3; 1/640; ISO 12800

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#7. f5.6; 1/640; ISO 12800

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#8. f5.6; 1/2500; ISO 4000

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#9 f5.6; 1/2500; ISO 4000

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TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Nice series! And always fun to shoot grandchildren. On the wrestling shots, any thoughts on maybe f4 and ISO 6400? (Would you trade DOF for lower noise?)

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Very good series. I shoot grandchildren's volleyball, soccer, basketball and baseball with Canon 7D MII, 5D MIII, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 and Canon f/2.8 24 - 70mm II. Frequently I used auto ISO and manual settings. Challenging venues, but fun!! For sure, lighting is the challenge. The 7D MII, auto focus system was a blessing.
Mark

Joe Blow

Ya, been there, faced the challenge. Survived with lots of memories.

For the BB I would have opened up the DOF and lowered the shutter speed. You want to have more of the players involved / in focus. The ISO noise doesn't bother me. In my experience, 1/500 is usually satisfactory for BB. There is usually little action that requires a faster shutter, but your preferences may be different.

For the wrestling I would have closed down the DOF. Block out the spectators. Also, zoom into the wrestlers closer. And what happened to that coach's face?

Soccer often has faster action so I found a higher shutter is better. Being outside usually allows a faster shutter without pushing your ISO too high.

You got some nice shots there. Well, except for that coach's face.

gray_ghost2 Loc: Antelope, (Sac) Ca.

Thanks for the comments. It's manual adjustments in training with the 7D mii and both lens here. Only had them for a couple months. Even though I had good cameras, I was lazy and set camera to program mode for all those yrs. Now with the grandkids getting faster in their sports, I need to stepup my game.
Cropping tighter on the wrestlers would of cut off legs or arms. The coaches face came out fine but I blouted it out for concerned for him. Didn't want people to trash him because of his size. I didn't realize he was in the shot til I was in PP. Was consentrating on the wrestlers. Maybe it was poor judgement on my part posting that pic, even though it was a dynamite shot. Thoughts; post or not to post photo #6?