My first football game, thoughts?

Hey all,

A friend who plays with a local team regularly enough asked if I wanted to pop along and take photos, which I was happy to.

Now, I know my gear isn't good enough for sports/fast action, but I've always wanted to try it, so I went along and took a chance at it.

I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions? A lot of the shots are very soft as the focus isn't really fast enough, and due to the Olympus not being the best in the world at high ISOs, also quite noisy (though I'm sure these issues will help me appreciate better gear, further down the line).

It was raining during the game.

Here are some of the better ones (you can ignore the watermark);


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Paulw

A guess would be that you were standing.

Kneeling or sitting will get a better angle on the action.

Other than that, a good selection of images there.

Cheers, Paul, for the comment.

Just noticed this thread is on the photography forum twice... Not sure how that happened.