You address the real problems of shooting action in low light, and show your editing after. One of the best videos, Thanks. QUESTION: For your back button focus you use the AF on button and set it on the first tab which is ( metering AF start ) and put your shutter button on Metering start or do you use AE lock?
Great video, thanks! I've been shooting a lot of soccer, and it looks like this transfers well to that as well! Thanks for the tips on focusing and back-button focus.
Back button is so useful. I ran into a fellow parent who was shooting soccer this weekend and told him about it and he was like, oh that is more useful for portrait than sports. I just walked away from that guy.
Thanks Nick. I really learned a lot about shooting a football game at night. I am new at this but I am trying to learn all I can to get better at shooting games.
Great video with lots of good advice. I love shooting high school football and can definitely relate to your comments about needing to adjust to the worsening light as the game goes on. I use a 7D Mk2 with a 70-200 f2.8 on a monopod and have a 24-70 on my 5D Mk3 on a spider holster. I use a ballhead on my monopod to make it easier to adjust the aim of the camera as I'm following the action. Also I use kneepads since a lot of the fields around here are artificial. I try to get to the games early to get some pictures of the players warming up and to take advantage of the light. I have a good relationship with the coaches and they have no problem with my being on the field during warmup to get some shots. Also, while the light is still fairly good, I like to take shots from just outside the endzone if the team gets inside the 20. You can get some nice head-on shots of the lineman that are hard to get otherwise. Once the natural light fades the endzones are usually the most poorly lit part of the field.Below is a link to my photos of a game two weeks ago. flic.kr/s/aHskjqqcai
hey vic. thanks for the link. those are some great shots! ive been doing lots of nightlife photography at clubs on weekends but would like to get into shooting football ect. wanna go to a local high school and get started there. i didnt realize a 70-200mm f2.8 would be this good. thought about getting a 150mm-600mm f5-6.3 but i guess i can get started with my 70-200 f2.8. i shoot with my nikon D610 at the moment but want to get myself a second body to get the wide angle shots. thanks for sharing again and good job man.
Thanks for sharing your flickr, you got good shots, giving me ideals for my shooting. I also volunteer to shoot my son's team. I share my pic's via Instragram at PilotKen808.
Great photos........I am just starting out in photography. My middle son plays football and I am really having a hard time getting good shots especially at night with the lights on. These videos really help and seeing examples like your photos are a great motivator.
make sure you get at least a 2.8 zoom lens or a long prime at least 2.8 , then try to keep iso to 4000 or lower for ok quality ! try to keep shutter at 1/1000 to freeze action ! and last thing is out of your control , pray for really good lights at the ball game lol
This was dope bro. A little editing trick, suggestion, if you would have added some of the shots you took on the video as it was playing, to see how the best one, or two, came out. That would have been neat. IDK if I'm explaining myself correctly to get my point across, but either way, dope video.
Great video....thank you so much for sharing! I have three boys and shoot lots of baseball, basketball and football....your advice is very helpful and appreciated.
Wow , this is an old video but I'm glad I watched it and thanks so much for making it, I just shoot middle school and Cal Ripken baseball and have heard about poor light at high schools. I do have the 70-200 2.8 but mostly use an 80-400 as there is lots of light, most baseball games are daytime here in Florida where I live. Thanks,
I take night high school football games. When the offense is near the goal line it's best to be on the end zone and not on the sideline to get that touchdown shot. I rarely take photos right on the scrimmage line. I use a Canon 5D Mk IV with the 70-200mm F/2.8
Outstanding video Nick! The cell phone on top of camera was perfect. It was great to see your view and showing when you actually hit the shutter. Also, what bag was that you were using?
sorry to be off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly lost my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me
@Kaden Kylo Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
I use auto ISO, do you think 10,000 is the max to strike that balance with noise? Every camera is different, just want to know what others think. Nikon D7200 here. I’m afraid to try it and risk losing pictures from a game if I gamble too high.
In the mid-‘90s, I worked for a small-town newspaper, and shot football games on Kodak Tri-X film, using a Nikon N6006 (look it up), a cheap 70-200 variable aperture zoom, and a large Sunpak flash unit (large enough that the camera mounted on the flash, instead of the other way around). I would shoot the ISO400 film as if it were 1600. It kinda sucked compared to fast lenses the guys from larger papers had, but it worked well enough - the higher ISO setting at least gave the flash a lot more reach. I shot both football and basketball that way for a couple of years, and never had a single complaint from a coach, player, or anyone else. I would typically shot the first half of one game and leave near halftime to shoot the second half of another game, as I was THE photographer and managing editor as well - like I said, a SMALL-town paper. Of course, I didn’t come close to as many keepers as Nick had in this game, but I would shoot maybe 65 shots per each game, and I knew I only really needed one to three keepers from each.
Rented the 400mm f5.6 for this weekend so I’ll have to have quite some iso and I might have to break the 1/1000th rule. But it’s all I can afford as a sophomore in high school with a press pass for yearbook
Hi Nick, enjoyed your very informative video. One question: You are at f/2.8 with single focus point, your football guys are kind of small looking through the viewfinder, so exactly what do you put your focus point on? I have been finding it very difficult getting the focus point on their eye at 2.8 when they are moving so fast. Thanks
yeah i am no where near good enough to keep it on their eye when they are running around.. I usually try to just get it somewhere on their head, but there are times when things are moving fast i am content just to have it on their numbers. I often use "zone" clusters to make it easier to hit my target
Mr Page great video. I'm a novice photographer. I have started to do sports photography mainly baseball shooting high school and travel baseball teams only because i enjoy baseball a lot. I had a Nikon 3200, but I just moved up to a D90. I'm having issues shooting and freezing the shots at night time under the lights. I use a Nikon 18-300 lens. What kind of advice can you give me for shooting sports at night under lights
hey Like2Fly... try shooting a fast shutter speed and as low iso as your camera can handle at the current light. to allow for faster shutter speed. an 18-300 lens has a variable aperture if im not mistaken so the f.stop will change. im not a pro or have too much experience in sports but these are general guidelines to freeze the action. good luck
Nice video Nick. I guess my comments are a little late considering you are now shooting the D5IV. I am shooting the 7DII with the 70-200 f2.8 and I struggle a lot with noise. Our poor lighting brings my ISO to 6400 and my shots are still dark and noise is an issue. I wonder if Light-room can get me by? Or maybe consider getting the 5DIII. It is a whole lot less than the 5D4, but not sure if it is my answer to quality shots? I thought upgrading to the 7D then 7DII were my answer and they were not. I might try learning to use a flash on the lower side of my mono pod if I can figure out how to do the correct settings. Now what :)
man.. shooting highschool football is one of the most demanding situations a camera can be put through.. I am not regularly shooting at iso 10,000 and 12,500. the 5d iii starts getting pretty yucky at iso 10,000 I hated taking it above iso 8,000. it kinda depends on how serious you are about wanting to shoot more sports.. or if its just for fun.
First great video, Nick. I am about to leave my warm house to shoot a high school football game on a cold (and dark) New England field, but that's fine with me. Your vid has inspired me to push the ISO, which I tend to back off on and pay the price with pictures that I don't completely love. Anyway, Angelo - I was having the same issues with noise at iso 6400 on my 7D, which made me feel like a soccer mom - no offense to soccer moms, I love them lots for other reasons, but don't really want to shoot like one...So I solved the problem by taking a deep breath... then bought a used, but well cared for Canon 1D iv for $1400 last November. I was considering a new 6D (aprox $1400 at the time) for it's low light capabilities, but am so happy I went with the Big Daddy. How happy? I just bought another used one for $840.My breath is still holding since it has not yet arrived, but even if I have to put some money into it, I think I will come out ahead because this camera is that good... It takes steel cojones to buy used camera equipment, but I tend to live on the edge. PMO
Paul Ofria I cannot pull the trigger on used cameras. I still haven't got a new camera yet. I should clear something up. I am getting border line OK photos for online stuff, emails, etc...but when I zoom the photo to 100% it looks pretty bad. The quality is just not good enough for what I do with them. Right now I'm worried about spending the 2600 for a new 5D3 and still not getting what I need. There is no reviews that help me because a lot of folks would think my 7D2 shoots good enough but it is not clean and sharp at zoom 100%. so now...looking at the 1DX or the 5D4. Alot of money to not know if it is the answer? thanks for your input.
Angelo Garcia Jr I have a 7D and use my 70-200II 2.8. I set my ISO to auto, and use shutter speed of 1/1000, let it pick aperture. AI servo, and cluster focus points. Only when I'm doing football at night do I use JPEG rather than raw, just because I can get more frames per second.
Wow Nick! Those could be the tiniest stands I've ever seen at a school! LOL When I was at the newspaper in Arizona shooting the smaller schools in the mountains, the stands were quite a bit larger. I see this and was like "Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy where's the rest of the stands?!!!" hahaha
Guys, please don't just sit there an hold the button down to blast photos. Practice your decisive moment shots. If you don't know what the 'decisive moment' is, then you have a long road of learning ahead of you. Shooting on drive is lazy and what casuals/amateurs do. Know what you are shooting, predict the action and take those decisive shots.
hi! i have a 50 mm lens and a canon t5i do you think i would have good luck shooting people in the stands? i am the photographer for our school yearbook please give me tips!
Your shots will be wide but you need to remember that you are shooting on a crop sensor which means your camera won't be shooting a field of view of 50 but closer to 75mm equivalent on a full frame camera so your image should appear closer. Although shooting even at 75mm equivalent is still fairly short for closeups but you should be able to get nice shots of more players at a time. Hope this helps!
Even though this was 7 years ago, it helped me today in 2022 especially when you video yourself out on the field. That there gave me a better perspective! Thanks!!
I appreciate that, both cameras and my TH-cam videos I’ve come along way since this video but I think it’s probably still fairly interesting since there’s not a lot on TH-cam for those getting into high school sports photography. Predicting the action and filling the frame are the name of the game! So it’s best when the action is running towards you which implies that you are ahead of the action hope this helps
I want to shoot a highschool game, I have the 5d3, as well as the 70-200 f2.8. I also have a 400 f4 DO. For the added reach would you use the 400, or not risk the noise and higher iso needed for the f4 ?
Thanks for the video, great advice, shooting a football camp tomorrow and all of this is extremely helpful. I imagine you're in manual at this point, but would you recommend shutter priority early on for better consistency? im only using one R body with the 70-200 2.8.
8000 iso not great on my Nikon d610 also ! I try to never go over 4000 iso , and keeping my shutter speed around 1/1000 but it gets hard at night little league baseball games ( where lights are not that bright anyway ) even with 2.8 lens !
Hey Nick! Thanks for your great videos. I have been doing more football photography lately and running into issues of not being tack sharp with the image, lots of noise, and general newbie issues. Was wondering how much can actually be solved with post-production vs really having to nail that photo from the beginning? P.S. It was so great to hear that you shot over 1000 images but only had 30 or so keepers!
Great comments Suzanne, and I am right there with you. I'm just now starting my third season (it's an 8 man league in Florida with all small schools) and I've done very little post production work since I shoot in jpg. I tried raw early in my first season so I could do some editing but that was just too much work. So now I'm trying to just get the best shots I can and go with them (not even cropping them). I generally shoot about 2400 of which I usually find about 25-30 that are really great and then another couple of hundred that are pretty good. I try to not post more than 200 on my photo site for the families. Hang in there and best of luck in your future work!
Nick Page i am a novice photographer I currently own a Canon 50d with a 18-135mm lens I plan on getting another lens higher up but for the time being what should i have the ISO on and what should my shutterspeed be at while shooting during Night games I have been shooting High School Football here in Maine and Friday night this week is a State championship game at night.
+matt schilmoeller A grainy shot is better than a blurry shot. I prefer Aperature Priority at the widest aperature, and adjust ISO to keep the shutter as fast as possible. So keep a F/2.8 lens at 2.8 and adjust ISO to try and keep 1/500-1000
You address the real problems of shooting action in low light, and show your editing after. One of the best videos, Thanks.
QUESTION: For your back button focus you use the AF on button and set it on the first tab which is ( metering AF start ) and put your shutter button on Metering start or do you use AE lock?
I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge about photography. Great video filled with really good insight
Great video, thanks! I've been shooting a lot of soccer, and it looks like this transfers well to that as well! Thanks for the tips on focusing and back-button focus.
Back button is so useful. I ran into a fellow parent who was shooting soccer this weekend and told him about it and he was like, oh that is more useful for portrait than sports. I just walked away from that guy.
Thanks Nick. I really learned a lot about shooting a football game at night. I am new at this but I am trying to learn all I can to get better at shooting games.
We're pretty much spot on about showing pics, but I really liked your lightroom tips. Great video, thank you
Really appreciate this tutorial. It's very practical and succinct. 👍
Nick, the tip on cleaning up the background really worked well on my night cityscape photos. Thanks a bunch.
Great video with lots of good advice. I love shooting high school football and can definitely relate to your comments about needing to adjust to the worsening light as the game goes on. I use a 7D Mk2 with a 70-200 f2.8 on a monopod and have a 24-70 on my 5D Mk3 on a spider holster. I use a ballhead on my monopod to make it easier to adjust the aim of the camera as I'm following the action. Also I use kneepads since a lot of the fields around here are artificial. I try to get to the games early to get some pictures of the players warming up and to take advantage of the light. I have a good relationship with the coaches and they have no problem with my being on the field during warmup to get some shots. Also, while the light is still fairly good, I like to take shots from just outside the endzone if the team gets inside the 20. You can get some nice head-on shots of the lineman that are hard to get otherwise. Once the natural light fades the endzones are usually the most poorly lit part of the field.Below is a link to my photos of a game two weeks ago. flic.kr/s/aHskjqqcai
hey vic. thanks for the link. those are some great shots! ive been doing lots of nightlife photography at clubs on weekends but would like to get into shooting football ect. wanna go to a local high school and get started there. i didnt realize a 70-200mm f2.8 would be this good. thought about getting a 150mm-600mm f5-6.3 but i guess i can get started with my 70-200 f2.8. i shoot with my nikon D610 at the moment but want to get myself a second body to get the wide angle shots. thanks for sharing again and good job man.
Thanks for sharing your flickr, you got good shots, giving me ideals for my shooting. I also volunteer to shoot my son's team. I share my pic's via Instragram at PilotKen808.
Great photos........I am just starting out in photography. My middle son plays football and I am really having a hard time getting good shots especially at night with the lights on. These videos really help and seeing examples like your photos are a great motivator.
Hey Nick! Thanks so much for the tutorial!
Hoping it helps me out on this season. Photographing football for the first time.
make sure you get at least a 2.8 zoom lens or a long prime at least 2.8 , then try to keep iso to 4000 or lower for ok quality ! try to keep shutter at 1/1000 to freeze action ! and last thing is out of your control , pray for really good lights at the ball game lol
This was dope bro. A little editing trick, suggestion, if you would have added some of the shots you took on the video as it was playing, to see how the best one, or two, came out. That would have been neat. IDK if I'm explaining myself correctly to get my point across, but either way, dope video.
Great video....thank you so much for sharing! I have three boys and shoot lots of baseball, basketball and football....your advice is very helpful and appreciated.
Wow , this is an old video but I'm glad I watched it and thanks so much for making it, I just shoot middle school and Cal Ripken baseball and have heard about poor light at high schools. I do have the 70-200 2.8 but mostly use an 80-400 as there is lots of light, most baseball games are daytime here in Florida where I live. Thanks,
I take night high school football games. When the offense is near the goal line it's best to be on the end zone and not on the sideline to get that touchdown shot. I rarely take photos right on the scrimmage line. I use a Canon 5D Mk IV with the 70-200mm F/2.8
Outstanding video Nick! The cell phone on top of camera was perfect. It was great to see your view and showing when you actually hit the shutter. Also, what bag was that you were using?
Thanks for this video! I'll be shooting my first football game this weekend, so this was a perfect!
Great video!!! Do you normally shoot with Single Point or one of the small Group focus settings?
Thank you Nick, but you need to add in your title Lightroom tutorial :). loved it the we have bonus! :0
sorry to be off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account??
I stupidly lost my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me
@Stephen Yosef instablaster ;)
@Kaden Kylo Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out atm.
Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
@Kaden Kylo It worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy:D
Thanks so much you saved my account :D
@Stephen Yosef Happy to help =)
The phone picking up the camera shutter sounded like a 50 cal
Haha, I thought I ws the only one who thought that. :)
nice video! looking forward for more next football season. thanks
Hey bud this video did wonders for me ! Thanks!!!!
Great video! Were you using auto-ISO?
D-810 is also five frames a second.
I use auto ISO, do you think 10,000 is the max to strike that balance with noise? Every camera is different, just want to know what others think. Nikon D7200 here. I’m afraid to try it and risk losing pictures from a game if I gamble too high.
Thank you, Awesome video!
When you shoot football, do you focus on the player's head or chest?
typically chest because when things are moving fast, its a bigger target
@@NickPage thank you so much. That helps a great deal.
Super helpful thanks. What are your thoughts on using flash?
In the mid-‘90s, I worked for a small-town newspaper, and shot football games on Kodak Tri-X film, using a Nikon N6006 (look it up), a cheap 70-200 variable aperture zoom, and a large Sunpak flash unit (large enough that the camera mounted on the flash, instead of the other way around). I would shoot the ISO400 film as if it were 1600. It kinda sucked compared to fast lenses the guys from larger papers had, but it worked well enough - the higher ISO setting at least gave the flash a lot more reach. I shot both football and basketball that way for a couple of years, and never had a single complaint from a coach, player, or anyone else. I would typically shot the first half of one game and leave near halftime to shoot the second half of another game, as I was THE photographer and managing editor as well - like I said, a SMALL-town paper. Of course, I didn’t come close to as many keepers as Nick had in this game, but I would shoot maybe 65 shots per each game, and I knew I only really needed one to three keepers from each.
awsome info but your beard is bothering me its slanted i just wanna go up to you and brush it till its straight lol
What card are you using? I have a Mark III, but mine isn't buffering as fast as yours. Also, do you keep a card in both 1 and 2 slots?
When taking football pictures what mode do you use? Manual or sport?
He shoots manual to be able to change shutter speed and ISO easily
Rented the 400mm f5.6 for this weekend so I’ll have to have quite some iso and I might have to break the 1/1000th rule. But it’s all I can afford as a sophomore in high school with a press pass for yearbook
Grainy photos are better than blurry ones, I've learned that the hard way through experience ):
Where can I send some of My Shots?
Loved it !
Hi Nick, enjoyed your very informative video. One question: You are at f/2.8 with single focus point, your football guys are kind of small looking through the viewfinder, so exactly what do you put your focus point on? I have been finding it very difficult getting the focus point on their eye at 2.8 when they are moving so fast.
Thanks
yeah i am no where near good enough to keep it on their eye when they are running around.. I usually try to just get it somewhere on their head, but there are times when things are moving fast i am content just to have it on their numbers. I often use "zone" clusters to make it easier to hit my target
that - and you shouldn't have to focus on the eye, it'll make everything else look blurry. Focusing on the helmet is better.
Hi Nick, are you using spot metering? and what house case mode are you using? Thank you.
Mr Page great video. I'm a novice photographer. I have started to do sports photography mainly baseball shooting high school and travel baseball teams only because i enjoy baseball a lot. I had a Nikon 3200, but I just moved up to a D90. I'm having issues shooting and freezing the shots at night time under the lights. I use a Nikon 18-300 lens. What kind of advice can you give me for shooting sports at night under lights
hey Like2Fly... try shooting a fast shutter speed and as low iso as your camera can handle at the current light. to allow for faster shutter speed. an 18-300 lens has a variable aperture if im not mistaken so the f.stop will change. im not a pro or have too much experience in sports but these are general guidelines to freeze the action. good luck
Nice video Nick. I guess my comments are a little late considering you are now shooting the D5IV. I am shooting the 7DII with the 70-200 f2.8 and I struggle a lot with noise. Our poor lighting brings my ISO to 6400 and my shots are still dark and noise is an issue. I wonder if Light-room can get me by? Or maybe consider getting the 5DIII. It is a whole lot less than the 5D4, but not sure if it is my answer to quality shots? I thought upgrading to the 7D then 7DII were my answer and they were not. I might try learning to use a flash on the lower side of my mono pod if I can figure out how to do the correct settings. Now what :)
man.. shooting highschool football is one of the most demanding situations a camera can be put through.. I am not regularly shooting at iso 10,000 and 12,500. the 5d iii starts getting pretty yucky at iso 10,000 I hated taking it above iso 8,000. it kinda depends on how serious you are about wanting to shoot more sports.. or if its just for fun.
First great video, Nick. I am about to leave my warm house to shoot a high school football game on a cold (and dark) New England field, but that's fine with me. Your vid has inspired me to push the ISO, which I tend to back off on and pay the price with pictures that I don't completely love.
Anyway, Angelo - I was having the same issues with noise at iso 6400 on my 7D, which made me feel like a soccer mom - no offense to soccer moms, I love them lots for other reasons, but don't really want to shoot like one...So I solved the problem by taking a deep breath... then bought a used, but well cared for Canon 1D iv for $1400 last November. I was considering a new 6D (aprox $1400 at the time) for it's low light capabilities, but am so happy I went with the Big Daddy. How happy? I just bought another used one for $840.My breath is still holding since it has not yet arrived, but even if I have to put some money into it, I think I will come out ahead because this camera is that good... It takes steel cojones to buy used camera equipment, but I tend to live on the edge.
PMO
Paul Ofria I cannot pull the trigger on used cameras. I still haven't got a new camera yet. I should clear something up. I am getting border line OK photos for online stuff, emails, etc...but when I zoom the photo to 100% it looks pretty bad. The quality is just not good enough for what I do with them. Right now I'm worried about spending the 2600 for a new 5D3 and still not getting what I need. There is no reviews that help me because a lot of folks would think my 7D2 shoots good enough but it is not clean and sharp at zoom 100%. so now...looking at the 1DX or the 5D4. Alot of money to not know if it is the answer? thanks for your input.
Angelo Garcia Jr I have a 7D and use my 70-200II 2.8. I set my ISO to auto, and use shutter speed of 1/1000, let it pick aperture. AI servo, and cluster focus points. Only when I'm doing football at night do I use JPEG rather than raw, just because I can get more frames per second.
Wow Nick! Those could be the tiniest stands I've ever seen at a school! LOL
When I was at the newspaper in Arizona shooting the smaller schools in the mountains, the stands were quite a bit larger.
I see this and was like "Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy where's the rest of the stands?!!!" hahaha
Guys, please don't just sit there an hold the button down to blast photos. Practice your decisive moment shots. If you don't know what the 'decisive moment' is, then you have a long road of learning ahead of you. Shooting on drive is lazy and what casuals/amateurs do. Know what you are shooting, predict the action and take those decisive shots.
Are saying you should sports M single shot mowed?
Once again my "yep" video except I try not to chase the play. I stay in front. But of course it depends
Where was this game played?
Waitsburg Washington
hi! i have a 50 mm lens and a canon t5i do you think i would have good luck shooting people in the stands? i am the photographer for our school yearbook please give me tips!
Grace Lopiccolo me too! Leaving in two hours!
Your shots will be wide but you need to remember that you are shooting on a crop sensor which means your camera won't be shooting a field of view of 50 but closer to 75mm equivalent on a full frame camera so your image should appear closer. Although shooting even at 75mm equivalent is still fairly short for closeups but you should be able to get nice shots of more players at a time. Hope this helps!
I have some shots from this weekend that I would like you to look at. Where can I send them?
What state do you shoot in?
+Michael Caudill Washington state
This is my 4th year watching this. Its like my "yep" video
wtf
Even though this was 7 years ago, it helped me today in 2022 especially when you video yourself out on the field. That there gave me a better perspective! Thanks!!
I appreciate that, both cameras and my TH-cam videos I’ve come along way since this video but I think it’s probably still fairly interesting since there’s not a lot on TH-cam for those getting into high school sports photography. Predicting the action and filling the frame are the name of the game! So it’s best when the action is running towards you which implies that you are ahead of the action hope this helps
ditto
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I call this a real explanation of covering real football. Great work. I'd like to see an annual update video.
I want to shoot a highschool game, I have the 5d3, as well as the 70-200 f2.8. I also have a 400 f4 DO. For the added reach would you use the 400, or not risk the noise and higher iso needed for the f4 ?
What software do you use for editing?
Thanks for the video Nick. I just want to shoot my kids games better and you are a real help.
Thanks for the video, great advice, shooting a football camp tomorrow and all of this is extremely helpful. I imagine you're in manual at this point, but would you recommend shutter priority early on for better consistency? im only using one R body with the 70-200 2.8.
Thank you. Your video tutorial was very helpful. It is helping me greatly going into a football photo shoot I’m doing this evening. Thanks again
can someone link me his lens and monopod please
Never thought about using a monopod for a 70-200 lens for sports. Makes since to me know.
Wow.. I found this video useful 5 years later. Thank you.
8000 iso not great on my Nikon d610 also ! I try to never go over 4000 iso , and keeping my shutter speed around 1/1000 but it gets hard at night little league baseball games ( where lights are not that bright anyway ) even with 2.8 lens !
Darn, ISO 6400 looks amazing on my Nikon D7200.
Thank you! Love your style of explaining things.
Do you use a particular Lightroom presets for sports...
Thank you so much. It's one of the best photography lesson I had ever seen on TH-cam
Hey Nick! Thanks for your great videos. I have been doing more football photography lately and running into issues of not being tack sharp with the image, lots of noise, and general newbie issues. Was wondering how much can actually be solved with post-production vs really having to nail that photo from the beginning?
P.S. It was so great to hear that you shot over 1000 images but only had 30 or so keepers!
Great comments Suzanne, and I am right there with you. I'm just now starting my third season (it's an 8 man league in Florida with all small schools) and I've done very little post production work since I shoot in jpg. I tried raw early in my first season so I could do some editing but that was just too much work. So now I'm trying to just get the best shots I can and go with them (not even cropping them).
I generally shoot about 2400 of which I usually find about 25-30 that are really great and then another couple of hundred that are pretty good. I try to not post more than 200 on my photo site for the families.
Hang in there and best of luck in your future work!
Nick Page i am a novice photographer I currently own a Canon 50d with a 18-135mm lens I plan on getting another lens higher up but for the time being what should i have the ISO on and what should my shutterspeed be at while shooting during Night games I have been shooting High School Football here in Maine and Friday night this week is a State championship game at night.
+matt schilmoeller A grainy shot is better than a blurry shot. I prefer Aperature Priority at the widest aperature, and adjust ISO to keep the shutter as fast as possible. So keep a F/2.8 lens at 2.8 and adjust ISO to try and keep 1/500-1000
What type of camera do u use