First football game C&C

[cnutco]

I shoot manual mode almost 90% of the time, but when shooting sports with lots of action I go with aperture mode.

Trust me, this is the best mode IMO.

 

[Geaux]

trust me there wasnt much action its 7th grade, my son is #75, @subscuck, i never said i was a pro or even good this is my second time using this camera ive read all over this place to use manual, i looked at some photos and mimicked the settings. i thought with 300mm i would have a light issue since it was so far away thats why my iso was so high, but now i know, my aperture was at the widest setting (the lowest f/stop for this lense)

Don't do that, please. Every lighting situation is different, you can't copy someone elses settings from a different day, different state, etc. Lighting from one street from another on the same day can be different. Keep practicing and keep it on Aperture mode for daytime sporting events. Personally, I shoot Aperture for 90% of my shots, unless I'm not getting the results I want, then I'll go Manual.

 

[ryan_caldero]

For starters.

Use the lowest ISO possible to give you a minimum of 1/500th shutter speed. You were using 800 ISO on a sunshiny day.
Get out of landscape mode for most of your shots. You are looking to capture action.
Use the smallest aperture you can. You want to isolate the action. To do that and make it pop you need the action in focus, everything should be out of focus. That is what makes the action pop.
Watch your light.

im in manual mode not landscape

Dude your shutter speed is kind of slow to capture the action. You need to be up there around a 1/1000... Check these out.

IMG_1755 by J2Chargers, on Flickr

IMG_1838 by J2Chargers, on Flickr

 

[KmH]

As far as I'm concerned your screen name is in poor taste.

Please make the appropriate capital letters, like most other forum members do.

Ditch the tripod. Note that most lenses that have an image stabilizing system require that system be turned OFF when the lens is mounted on a tripod.
Get a monopod for shooting sports, but a monopod is only needed if you're using a lens longer than 200 mm. With good camera handeling technique you should be able to hand hold and pan a lens up to 300 mm in focal length.

Most field sports action shots are made with the camera held in the vertical (portrait) orientation, not the horizonytal (landscape) orientation, becuase people are tall and narrow, not short and wide.

The first 2 photos are amenable to the horizontal camera prientation, but the 3rd one isn't.

You need to be able to move so you can position yourself so the sun is behind you, not behind, or to the side, of the players, which is why you use a monopod instead of a tripod.

Next you need to put the camera in aperture or shutter priority, not manual mode, and use the camera's continuous focus mode, not it's single focus mode.

When I shot sports I used aperture priority, and let the ISO float (auto). But set up that way you have to keep a close eye on what the camera iss using for shutter speed, becuase you wan the shutter speed to stay at or above 1/500.

To shoot sports effectively you have to pretty much keep your eye at the viewfinder during a play so you are always ready to shoot, and you have to understand the game well enough to antisipate the action.

I shot adult soccer and there is no time 'between plays' like the re is in football.