Tesar Photography: Photographing My Boys First Soccer Games.

My boys had their first soccer games yesterday morning, so naturally, as both a Dad and an Amateur photographer I was really excited! We woke up early and got everything prepared and in the truck. Game time was 9:00, and we had to be there by 8:15. I was a little concerned when the sun started to rise, cause now I could see that there was a dense layer of fog everywhere. The sun was barely lighting up the sky, like a very dim soft light.

This photo gives you an example of how foggy it was

f5.0 1/500th sec 400 ISO

I started off in Manual Mode, and set my ISO at 400, Aperture was set low and shutter speed between 1/250 and 1/500th sec. This was my first time shooting any kind of sports and both my boys were playing at different times, so I had time to adjust. As the sun rose, the light kept changing, and towards the end of the 2nd game it finally came out a little and I ended up with some pretty good images.

The following are the best ones (in my opinion). I took over 200 photos, and ended up with about 60 decent ones per child, to import and adjust in Lightroom. Out of that I ended up with about 30 per child. I did have to do some pretty dramatic changes on some of them in Lightroom, so I won't be enlarging these more than a 10 x 14 or so due to grain issues.
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These images are from the first game 9:00 - 10:00