I was asked by an old friend to get some shots of him and his footie mates playing last tuesday. They have been playing 5 a side for about 2 years but they do not have any pics. I though this would be an excellent chance to try out my new canon 60d. Thats right, I finally got my hands on it. My very own and I must say im loving the camera. Anyways the shoot was for about an hour or so and took place in some indoor playing courts. I took with me a broken telephoto which some how has come back to like when i use it with this new camera. I though as well as my other lens I could really do with a tele lens to zoom in on the action, much like the photographers at sport games do. A risky strategy that i was interested to see how it would work with this non pressured photo shoot. However while shooting it was not the lens which proved problematic, with was the lighting. It was that awful orange fluorescent flood lighting which is just the about the worse light to work with. The lighting also proved too dim photographically making my task of capturing images even harder, as low light and fact moving object never equal pin sharp images.
Thinking back on what I could have done to achieve even greater results. I could have got my hands on a lens that had a higher sensitively ratio. But seeing as I don't own one and no money was being put towards to shoot to hire one this was not an option. Also I could have used a flash. This shoot just demonstrated its importance in photography. And although the new camera can work in low light situations the images are still at high risk of distortion and grain. Luckily in for this shoot I think the flash would have become more of a distraction to the players. With that said here are some of me favorite results.
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