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I am possibly going to shoot my sons first football match tomorrow (under 14's) and will be using Nikon D3100 and kit lens and a Sigma 55-200. I know not the best suited but what sort of settings should I be looking at to try and get the best shots. I am predicting a wet rainy day or cloudy at the least.

I took some shots today at a local match and I'm not hundred percent on pp that I used.


DSC_2231 by perrygiffin, on Flickr


DSC_2205 by perrygiffin, on Flickr


DSC_2183 by perrygiffin, on Flickr


DSC_2215 by perrygiffin, on Flickr
 
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Not got the most experience but continuous AF/servo AF, single AF point, shoot in aperture priority, wide as the lens will allow then set your ISO to allow at least 1/500th shutter speed though ideally get a little higher 1/800th-1/1000th

Try and get a lower PoV i.e. sitting or kneeling this is what the sporty types here recommend and I really does make the photos look better :)
 
MWHCVT said:
Not got the most experience but continuous AF/servo AF, single AF point, shoot in aperture priority, wide as the lens will allow then set your ISO to allow at least 1/500th shutter speed though ideally get a little higher 1/800th-1/1000th

Try and get a lower PoV i.e. sitting or kneeling this is what the sporty types here recommend and I really does make the photos look better :)
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That

the low view point is especially important with kids so you get faces rather than tops of heads.

Alternately you could shoot in TV and set it to 1/500 , this will force a wide aperture in crap light , and put the ISO on auto so it stays as low as you can get away with (2 sides of a square really as the resulting settings will be much the same)
 
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new2me said:
And if you are going to photoshop a ball into the shot, dont just paste it anywhere :D
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Does look like that ;)

Thanks for the advice - will give it a try tomorrow
 
background is a problem with this sort of match (particularly if you haven't got a wide aperture lens) #2 is the best of the set , but it would benefit from a substantial crop to loose the car in the background.

Also all of them are a bit dully lit and might benefit from a small bump on the saturation slider
 
big soft moose said:
background is a problem with this sort of match (particularly if you haven't got a wide aperture lens) #2 is the best of the set , but it would benefit from a substantial crop to loose the car in the background.

Also all of them are a bit dully lit and might benefit from a small bump on the saturation slider
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Thanks will have a look at them again in Lightroom.

Have just looked at the camera and Nikon doesn't have TV, I am guessing its S for shutter speed, which if I select I then can not have auto ISO so will have a play with ISO settings tomorrow.
 
yeah S on Nikon = TV on canon (shutter priority), A = AV (aperture priority)
 
works for me - but i'm far from expert
 
I like to see a little more space above the head than at the feet, your feet are about right but needs more space above their heads, I usually got twice the feet gap but it is just a personal preference.

Technical side under 14's the pace can be reasonably quick 1/500th should freeze everything possibly a little ball blur so set everything to get that shutter speed or faster.
 
under usual circumstances i'd agree with john but trouble is with this one the space above the heads contains a ford mondeo - imo its stronger without the car , even if that does mean quite a tight crop
 
MWHCVT said:
then set your ISO to allow at least 1/500th shutter speed though ideally get a little higher 1/800th-1/1000th
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It would be far better to be in the 1/800-1/1000 range.
 
bigrob said:
It would be far better to be in the 1/800-1/1000 range.
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of course it would...1/500th was really just the slowest that I used to shoot if I couldn't get that I just used to sit back and enjoy the match, but then I only ever did local rugby just for the fun on it :D
 
Thanks for the advice everyone, had a good morning, think I ended up about 1/1200 speed or there abouts.

Will post a few in a new thread in the relevant section.
 
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