My first football pics! I was finally able to shoot some football this week, one JV game and one varsity. I have the luxury of being in an area with many 6A schools close to me, and...

Thurber Mingus

I was finally able to shoot some football this week, one JV game and one varsity. I have the luxury of being in an area with many 6A schools close to me, and have access to tons of games and many other sports. With advice from Jules here and some Facebook groups and YouTube videos, I'm happy with what I got, especially for the first time.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Great action and colors!

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Thurber Mingus wrote:

I was finally able to shoot some football this week, one JV game and one varsity. I have the luxury of being in an area with many 6A schools close to me, and have access to tons of games and many other sports. With advice from Jules here and some Facebook groups and YouTube videos, I'm happy with what I got, especially for the first time.

Awesome shooting ✳️🎖️🏆🎖️✳️

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

Thurber Mingus wrote:

I was finally able to shoot some football this week, one JV game and one varsity. I have the luxury of being in an area with many 6A schools close to me, and have access to tons of games and many other sports. With advice from Jules here and some Facebook groups and YouTube videos, I'm happy with what I got, especially for the first time.

These are really nice shots. You should have been shooting and posting long ago. Please post more when you can. Thanks and BE SAFE

Tom

david vt Loc: Vermont

First effort? Wonderful. I agree with Tom that you should be posting frequently with shots like these.

#4 is a nice “Heisman” moment

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice! You have learned well.

Thurber Mingus

david vt wrote:

First effort? Wonderful. I agree with Tom that you should be posting frequently with shots like these.

#4 is a nice “Heisman” moment

Thanks, I agree about #4, he's committed to Oregon State!

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Thurber Mingus wrote:

I was finally able to shoot some football this week, one JV game and one varsity. I have the luxury of being in an area with many 6A schools close to me, and have access to tons of games and many other sports. With advice from Jules here and some Facebook groups and YouTube videos, I'm happy with what I got, especially for the first time.

Great work sir Thurber. Nice and tight. What was the setting you used? I am shooting games at 7200 iso to 8000 not good for image quality.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

tshift wrote:

These are really nice shots. You should have been shooting and posting long ago. Please post more when you can. Thanks and BE SAFE

Tom

Now a Maxpreps photographer..

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

I think you scored a touchdown, first time carrying the ball! Extra kudos for the punter shot!

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

You did quite well Thurber!

Don

Thurber Mingus

Jules Karney wrote:

Great work sir Thurber. Nice and tight. What was the setting you used? I am shooting games at 7200 iso to 8000 not good for image quality.

Thanks Jules! The varsity game (1st 6 pics) started in the late afternoon but most of it was under the lights. The first pic was an early one and the ISO was only 1250, the later ones were generally around 5-6000 but a few were 10,000. Everything posted was shot with a Canon R6, 400mm f/2.8 at 2.8, shutter speeds around 1/1600th before sunset, 1/1000th after.

I learned from watching videos and reading that modern cameras noise reduction is really, really good and that by fine tuning in-camera settings the resulting JPGs can come out looking really good, and need very little post-production work, so that's what I've been doing in lower light environments like these. I shot the JV game with both RAW+JPG and messed with the RAW files to compare them to the JPGs and there wasn't much difference, other than time to the end product, so I shot only JPG for the night game. I have LR/PS and Topaz DeNoise/Sharpen, but there is NO additional noise reduction on those night shots other than what the camera applied!

pnittoly Loc: Mountainside, New Jersey

Great start Thurber . Keep posting ! Paul

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Thurber Mingus wrote:

Thanks Jules! The varsity game (1st 6 pics) start... (show quote)

Thank you for the breakdown. Yeah I have been hitting very high iso. Thursday game starts at 4pm the freshman. Friday another 4pm start time. Then the night game at this school. Last time I shot there I was hitting iso 6400 1/1250 at 2.8.
This might be something to look at in your spare time. I was told by a pro from CBS on the noise in camera set high iso nr set to high. Picture control go to sharpening and one click from the max set in camera. I tried it and the shots are clean, crisp every time. Almost lol. Just food for thought.

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Thurber Mingus

Thanks Jules, those are very similar to what I've got set except the NR is set at standard rather than high.