Colman's OPark C&C

FoxT

Hi all, a few pics from St Colmans Park last night, with a recently acquired 85mm f/1.8 on a 40D. C&C welcome - and can anybody advise the best way to deal with the purple fringes that are so obvious around the goalposts?

Thanks!







-Foxt

funnyname

Cool photos, did the linesman's flag go up for the 3rd one?

CabanSail

I have edited your post so that it's easier to see the images. It's normally best to host your images & then just link them in here. This can be done on sites such as Flickr or Pix.ie. Well done for putting up some shots for C&C.

I do not know much about Sports Photography but I think you have a few problems with these images. First they are all soft. I cannot see anything which is sharp. This is most likely from using too slow a shutter speed. The other problem is that in the first two shots the background is very distracting. I realise that you are limited by the constraints of the location & also the light was probably quite low. These things make it very difficult.

sasar

This lens is well known for high CA wide open.
Photoshop lets you remove it to some extent.

Borderfox

To eliminate purple fringing dont shoot wide open, only way to get rid of it. Whats the shutter speed on these?

soccerc

Borderfox wrote: »

Whats the shutter speed on these?

They are at 1/250 but in an earlier post the OP believed this is ok for sport.

OP, none of these images are keepers, they are soft and poor quality overall.

An 85mm lens will not give you reach or quality under lights for sport action images.

For sport, under lights, a minimum of ISO 800, aperture of 2.8 and shutter speed of 1/500 combined are the basics of freezing the action.

FoxT

Funnyname- the flag went up, Ramblers didn't get away with that one!!
Cabansail - Thanks a lot for editing my post, and the advice.

shutter speeds are 1/160 (1st one) & 1/250 (the other 2)

All shot at ISO 1000, and around f/2.0.

It sounds like I should use ISO 3200 which will then let me go to 1/500 & maybe f/2.4 - the faster shutter speed should pay more than the higher ISO will cost? I'll try that next time, I appreciate the good advice.

You are absolutely right - the 85mm has a short reach , even on a crop frame sensor. It's the longest lens I have with a wide aperture, but is still too short. It forces me to crop which results in images being even softer.

Finally, the background is indeed distracting, a nightmare. So I need

- a 70-200 f/2.8
and
-a JCB

I'll put those on the shopping list!

Cheers ,

-FoxT

soccerc

Here's an example of an image taken under LOI standard floodlights.

Exposure is 1/500 @f2.8 with ISO of 800

You don't necessarily need to up the ISO to 3200.

The shutter speed of 1/500 will generally freeze the action and coupled with the ISO of 800 and the aperture of 2.8 gives a clean sharp image.

Your lens is fast and sharp enough for portraits but not for sport action.

FoxT

Soccerc - that is a very sharp photo & shows clearly what I would like to achieve. To be fair, you had about 2.5 stops more light than I had, Cobh Ramblers obviously not paying their ESB bills, light at Colmans is always poor, much worse than Turners X. But, my son is on the team, so that is where I must go..... Thanks to everybody for their advice, I'll try upping the ISO for a min shutterspeed of 1/500 & see what happens. Cheers, FoxT

soccerc

FoxT wrote: »

Soccerc - that is a very sharp photo & shows clearly what I would like to achieve. To be fair, you had about 2.5 stops more light than I had, Cobh Ramblers obviously not paying their ESB bills, light at Colmans is always poor, much worse than Turners X. But, my son is on the team, so that is where I must go..... Thanks to everybody for their advice, I'll try upping the ISO for a min shutterspeed of 1/500 & see what happens. Cheers, FoxT

You're lens is 1.8, mine was 2.8 so it's in your favour not mine as you've indicated.

The lights in Richmond Park and those in St Colmans Park are the same design, vintage and quality.

whyulittle

New lights were installed in Colman's in the past couple of seasons. Never shot under them though.