In this exercise, I am required to follow the subject around and record all the moment that is "almost" right. It think the exercise wants to make me stick around the screen for a while instead of snapping one shot and leave.
By the way, I will start labelling my photographs in numbers going forward. I think this is a good practice since I am now doing this Art of Photography course, who knows one day I need to discuss my work with my tutor and we want to refer to a particular photograph?
When planning for this exercise, I thought it would be a good experience if I attempt something that I have not tried before. After speaking to my friend Trung, he told me about the leisure centre that he and his friends play football in the evening. Then when I arrived, he told me that the folks at the big field is very good, so I went to take some shots.
The subject I am after is a team called "Aston Carter FC" (the green team). They are based in Leyton and are playing for the London summer football league.
Just arrive at the field, a player is putting on his boots and shoes.
Image 1: 200mm f/5.6 ISO 1600 at 1/200s
Then, the match started.
Image 2: 160mm f/4 ISO 1250 at 1/160s
Two teams were fighting to get the ball.
Image 3: 200mm f/4 ISO 1250 at 1/160s
Oops, the guys from the other team got the ball.
Image 4: 200mm f/4 ISO 1250 at 1/160s
A player from Aston Carter FC got control of the ball, and trying to fend off the guys from the other team.
Image 5-8: 200mm f/3.5 ISO 1250 at 1/160s
It is already dark, but both team is still trying very hard. As the lighting condition get poorer, I have to stick with larger aperture and higher ISO, which mean getting the correct focus will be more difficult.
Image 9: 70mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
The guys are trying hard.
Image 10: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
The ball is up there!
Image 11: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Obviously, the other team is not going to give up easily.
Image 12: 130mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Image 13: 170mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Somebody is trying to stop him..
Image 14: 170mm f/2.8 !SO 1600 at 1/160s
Then it almost went off the side.
Image 15: 130mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Then the ball went off the other way. Everybody is chasing it.
Image 16: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Other people are going along. Picking up speed here.
Image 17: 130mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Image 18: 130mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
I think they made it this time. So I miss the shot...
Image19: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Not soon after this, the game ended. The players are all exhausted. They went off to the branch to get some water.
Image 20: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
Image 21: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
End of the game. The field is now quite again.
Image 22: 200mm f/2.8 ISO 1600 at 1/160s
This is my first attempt to photograph a football game. I guess it happens to be at night add some more difficulties, but I try to use the field as background, so I catch some light bouncing off the grass. Those images usually look better than those against a dark background at the far side. The most difficult part is using autofocus. Because the players coming in and out of the frame, and because the depth of field is shallow, the AF system got confused very often on which part of the frame it is focusing. I think next time I should try doing manual focus and see if I can get better result. The other issue is, even with a 200mm lens, it is not giving long enough reach. Therefore, all the images above involved some sort of cropping. Also, I leave some spacing in case the players suddenly dashing off the frame. I hope as I got more experience, I can keep a tighter frame on the players.
I think having the subject as the whole team instead of a particular player (not that I know any of them) makes this assignment slightly easier.
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