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from sfxsfx1/Tim (10,139) 
on May 26, 2005 5:58:18 PM CDT
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hi brian, nice and sharp action shot with the players in full stride, i feel there is to much DOF in play here, i might be wrong but it looks like you have added the ball to the shot, sorry if im wrong but the ball looks out of place and the size looks wrong, also what led me to this conclusion is if you look at top right and half way up on the left the ball looks very strange and out of shape as if the erazer brush has been in use, if it hasn't be add then forgive me but it looks like it has, regards tim
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from acena/Alex (489)
on May 26, 2005 1:18:22 PM CDT
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Great action shot! You did a wonderful job freezing the action of the momet. I'm just surrpised the ball was not much sharper given the speed and the aperture combo used for the shot. Cheers, Alex too bad the guy on the left wasn't looking at the ball also--Not a criticism just an observation. I understand you take what you can get in these siutations. Cheers, Alex
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from andag1/Andrew (164,660)
on May 26, 2005 12:24:39 PM CDT
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A nice one here, Brian! You've caught this player flying in stride too...fending off the other player. Good and sharp too. Work on the depth of field issue to seperate the action from the background and you're going to have a load of fabulous shots. I can see it happening already!
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From brianz/Brian (509)
on May 28, 2005 3:29:13 PM CDT
Thanks for the comments. Yes, I would have liked to have a more blurred background, but even at this aperture and the players at 20 to 30 ft away, the DOF is only a few feet. At a greater distance and zooming to 300mm, it could be only 6 inches at this aperture, so I tend to hedge a bit on the aperture to avoid too many out of focus shots. I could shoot at f/4 always, but I'd get fewer keepers. The ball was about halfway between us, maybe a little closer to them. I was about 10 ft over the endline and this was a long pass down field that took a big bounce and they were racing to catch up to it. It was coming from the left over their right shoulders, and in my general direction, so I had to move away just a half second later to avoid a collision. So, no, the ball was not pasted in, nor did I do any digital manipulation on it. It looks blurry because it's both out of the plane of focus, plus has a spin on it, so is moving faster than the players, relative to the camera. And depending on the direction of the spin, some parts of the ball are moving faster relative to the camera and can look more out of focus than other parts. It's sometimes surprising that 1/1000 sec doesn't stop all the action on the field. 1/15000 or 1/2000 would stop most everything though.
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