Nice work, Chuck. I never tried soccer photos except with film, in a
Spotmatic, and had poor results. You seem to have the technique pretty well
in hand.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:54 PM
Subject: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos
> Here's a set of photos of my oldest grandson's soccer game in High
> Point, North Carolina. Shot on April 6 on the trip back home from
> Florida.
>
> Unlike the stock car racing shots where I had trouble with the EVF
> display "tearing" during fast motion I had no such trouble here.
> Perhaps the action was slower than the race cars but I had also set the
> EVF this time for faster response. I also set the IS for horizontal
> panning which hadn't been done with the cars which might also have been
> a factor then.
>
> The lens used for all shots was the 14-150/4-5.6. All shots were at ISO
> 400 and f/5.6 in AV mode with no compensation (hazy light). There are
> 20 shots here selected from a total of 70. Half of the total (35) were
> shot at 150mm (300mm equiv). There were 7 focus failures (focus
> generally somewhere behind on the fans rather than players) and all were
> at 150mm for a focus failure rate of 20% for motion shots at the long
> end. I think that's not too bad considering the fast motion and shallow
> DoF at 150mm.
>
> Every image here has been cropped to some degree, most at about 1/3 to
> 1/4 of the frame with a few smaller than that. They have been exposure
> and shadow/highlight adjusted in ACR as well as given a clarity bump.
> No other processing in ACR. All of the images were cropped to 4x6 ratio
> and resized for possible printing. No other changes except the slight
> sharpening applied by BreezeBrowser in resizing the 4x6 images for this
> web display.
>
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Alex%27s%20soccer%20game%20-%20Apr%206,%202013/index.htm>
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