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The photo I’d been planning for a week was a fail, the one I’d thought I’d add on if I had time, was the winner, of sorts.

soccer training

We had arranged with a soccer team to meet them back at their beautiful red soccer field today to photograph their soccer training. They would wear their soccer jerseys just for us and let us interrupt their training for any photos we needed.

After trying some ‘movement’ photos while the players did their drills, for some reason, I’m not sure why, I decided to do the extra photo next, not the one I’d been planning.

I grabbed the goalie who was quite happy to plunge his body again and again into the dirt for us, until I got a photo I was happy with. With the tracking focus on to catch him as he dived towards the camera and the polarising filter to keep the sky blue, I sadly sacrificed F-stops for shutter speed at ISO650 and shot at 1/800 and F3.5. Happy with the exposure and freeze of my subject and aware that depth of field was way too small, why oh why didn’t I think to move the tracking focus point to top right? Top right or right, where his head was landing again and again?

goalie in action

Only after having fun with the goalie did I decide to get to the planned photo, by which time it was far too late. The sun was almost down and the shadows (which were to be the key part of the photo) were far too long. Fail.

Nevermind, the goalie shots are nice, even if some have his shorts sharp instead of his face!

committed goalie, even in practice

cheers

Keturah de Klerk - Photography Life