I love...

...depth of field, and color.

This from Vashon Island Soccer Club Wasabi GU-12 soccer, just put up.

f5.6 has become my favorite aperture, I guess because it produces effective depth-of-field for objects that are reasonably separated, and yet provides for full focus on the subject itself.

Details: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f2.8L at 120mm; ISO 800; Exposure aperture priority (Av) at f5.6 and 1000th second; White Balance "daylight".

What a better place to be...

...than on a soccer pitch on a cold-and-sunny December Saturday afternoon?

Buccaneers GU-13 at half time.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f2.8 with a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length of 98-280mm, this shot at 98mm.

ISO 800; White Balance "Daylight"; Aperture priority exposure at f8.0 yielding 400th second; exposure compensation -2/3 (Mr. Green Jeans);

Now up...

...VISC Alligators GU-11 soccer, from 11/21/09.

A three-day turnaround. Not bad for having shot 734 original RAW photos.

Whittled that down to 159 tiff's that made the final cut.

That's about 22%.

:-/

Pretty straight forward stuff: EOS 5D Mark II; 70-200mm f2.8L zoom lens with a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length range of 98-280mm; image stabilization on, hand-held.

White balance "cloudy"; ISO 1600; aperture priority auto-exposure (Av) at f5.6; most shutter speeds in the range of 1/320th to 1/800th second; one-shot auto focus with a single, center focus point; focus lock.

RAW conversion with Breeze Browser: smart noise reduction "normal"; white balance "cloudy"; sharpness +4 (as shot +3); exposure compensation in the range of -0.4 to +0.4 as needed.

And it didn't rain.

:-)

Now up...

...VISC Comets GU-12 soccer from 11/14/09.


Pretty straight forward: Canon EOS 5D Mark II with 70-200mm f2.8L zoom and a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length of 98-280mm; image stabilization on, hand-held.

White balance "cloudy"; ISO 800; aperture priority auto-exposure (Av) at f5.6, producing typical shutter speeds of 500th second; one-shot center-point focusing with focus lock.