gessman Loc: Colorado

Excellent shot. Something I didn't see mentioned that you night want to look into, using Google and Youtube.com, is referred to as, "peak of the action" in soccer photography, if you aren't already familiar with the term. It can offer you a means of economizing on you exposure triangle settings and still getting your desired results. If you've played the game or previously studied it, you'll be way ahead. If you've done neither, perhaps you will benefit dramatically by taking my suggestion to look into the term. Another thing I would suggest is to visit the sports section here in uhh to pose your questions and engage in pertinent discussions with other soccer shooters and thereby eliminate nuance interjections by people who don't share your interests, who know nothing about the subject, but cannot resist commenting anyway.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Excellent sport photo. Sharpness before noise. Try a few test shots at shutter speeds of 1/1000 to 1/3500 under the same conditions to check your focus, movement and noise.

Shooter41 Loc: Wichita, KS

Dear Dan5000...
Excellent shot of outdoor soccer. I like the sharpness and rich colors. Please keep showing us your work. Shooter41

gouldopfl

Many of the newer mirrorless cameras can handle this. I quite frequently shoot at night at ISO 6400. The technology is awesome

Bill McKenna

I would have dialed down your ISO, which would cause your shutter speed to come down as well. You don’t need to be at 1/3200 on your shutter speed to get sports images sharp. You’ll lose nothing in terms of frozen sharp focus at 1/1600, and you’ll have less grain in your shots because you’ll brought your ISO down.

Ralanco19

Nice action shot. However, since this is practice (for them) and ideal trial and experimentation time for you, did you try other exposure/speed capturing options to see if you could be just as successful at 1/2000, 1/1000 shutter speed, giving you a maybe ISO at 1600 or even lower? Now’s the time to test the lowest shutter you can get away with.

Also, if this is a practice facility or a high school/small college facility) do be aware that most of them have lower lighting power. Our eyes adjust so don’t realize it. But most pro facilities (soccer, football, baseball, basketball) and big name colleges have much higher lighting power that TV stations demand (or they won’t cover them) for their cameras. So, you might also consider that possibility at the upcoming games you plan on covering.

Good luck … and just have lots of fun!

gwilliams6

So true.

gwilliams6

First I do agree with others here that it is more important to get the shot with a fast enough shutter speed than worry about noise. I never lost a publication or a photo contest due to noise in an action shot, and there are superb noise reduction programs like Topaz Denoise AI and DXO Prime now that pros and amateurs alike swear by when they need to use higher ISOs .If you are forced to shoot a slow speed, then try panning with the action.

As a photojournalist shooting pro sports for 47 years and with Sports Photo awards from World Press Photos, and Pictures of the Year competitions, I respectfully disagree with your statement Bill McKenna, and I will explain. .

Faster action from pro athletes can require faster shutter speeds than in slower amateur athletics. And also VERY IMPORTANT is the direction of the action. Action coming towards and away from you will require less shutter speed to stop the action, but fast action going across the frame will require a much faster shutter speed to stop the action, unless you are purposely panning with a slow shutter speed.

Also the higher megapixel sensors in today's cameras will require a faster shutter speed to stop that action as the greater pixel density of those higher megapixel cameras mean that fast sports action will cross more pixels of your frame so you will need a higher shutter speed to stop the action in those cameras.

An example: the same action that I could freeze with 1/1000 sec. on my 24mp Sony A9, now requires me to shoot at 1/2000 second on my 61mp Sony A7RIV and 50mp Sony A1. You have to know and understand the physics here.

Just like any sports action, as Bill pointed out, if you want to stop the fast movement of those wing tips in Birds In Flight shots, you will often need 1/4000 sec.

In addition to my long pro career, I am also a longtime Professor of Photography at the state university level, with a Master's Degree in Digital Photography. I have to know this stuff and teach it to my hundreds of students over the years in my Photojournalism, Digital Photography, and 35mm B&W film courses I write and teach.

Here an action shot, with the action going across the frame, shot on my 50mp Sony A1, 200-600mm lens, at 600mm, f6.3, ISO 1000, 1/2000 second. This shot could have even used a 1/4000 sec. shutter speed. Boys pulled by fast speedboat on Brookings Lake, Manistee National Forest, Michigan.

The 50mp Sony A1 shot of the White Egret taking off from its watery perch on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten/Sint Martin needed 1/4000 sec. shutter speed to freeze both those wings and the water splashes. 200-600mm lens, 319mm, ISO 320, f6.3, 1/4000 sec.

Cameras have advanced so far and some pro mirrorless cameras can shoot at 1/32000 sec. and even 1/64000 sec. When I need to use a high shutter speed, I do. Don't be intimidated by those who tell you NOT to use all the capabilities in your camera.

Cheers

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