Athlone-Longford March 2019
When you shoot photographs in manual mode, you should be able to decide if your image will be clear, noisy, sharp, blur, well exposed... and with a certain depth of field. Unfortunately, sometimes, the surrounding conditions can be so challenging, that you have to compromise on everything, and you end up with grainy and unsharp images.
On March 23rd 2019, members of the Athlone Photography Club were invited to photograph a football match on a volunteer basis (Thanks Tom C!). Unfortunately, football goes very fast, and it was very difficult to take decent action shots, by night time, depending only on the stadium lighting. This is really where I realised my camera (cropped frame) wasn't good enough for this kind of photography.
While I've never been a fan of football (people who were picked up last or second last at school will understand ;-)), trying to take the best with what you have from such event was quite an enjoyable experience.
Camera used: Canon EOS 1200D, 55-250mm, No Flash. (Output can be ok for Web photography, but not really for print)
Athlone GoalKeeper (this is actually the only decent photo I took during the night)
Longford GoalKeeper
Action shot (I like the players distribution here)
On the football field
Black and White turned out to be a good solution to compensate the lack of sharpness.
Even if it's not super sharp, I do quite like that shot because of the triangular effect created by the players positions and the ball.
Another shot for the road.
Another shot for the road.
Action shot during the match
Action shot during the match