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11-Mar-2018

Half Time Prayers

Canon EOS 80D
1/400s f/13.0 at 180.0mm iso320 full exif

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Guest 18-Nov-2018 02:55
Andrew,
A little unsolicited and hopefully helpful advice: your shutter speed is way too slow for action. Your f-stop is way too high. Right now, your images are not all that sharp and you have no separation of your subjects from the background. Try to blur out that distraction behind the players in the action you are trying to capture.

For a good sports image, you want a background that has some degree of blur in it to make your subject(s) pop in the foreground more. And, you also want them as sharp as possible.

Suggestion is to lower your f-stop to the maximum or quite close to it and this will elevate your shutter speed.

For shutter speed, I would suggest at least 1/800 to 1/1000 and on a bright day like this, that should be real easy. You may also find yourself lowering the ISO as well.

If it starts to get darker, elevate your ISO as necessary to maintain shutter speed. It is better to have an in-focus image with some digital noise than one without noise but that is blurry.

Hope this helps.