Some Indoor Football Action

Hof8231 · Apr 2, 2014

As sone of you know, I recently got a job with the Trenton Freedom of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL.) Here are some shots from their first ever game, a 52-17 dominating victory over the Richmond Raiders. C&C always welcome. Yes our turf is red. And yes, it is obnoxious.

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Bodies used: 5D Mark III, 6D
Lenses: Sigma 15mm f/2.8 diagonal fisheye, Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 VC, Sigma 120-300 f/2.8 DG OS

imagemaker46 · Apr 2, 2014

Some outstanding football images.

Hof8231 · Apr 2, 2014

I appreciate that, sir!

vintagesnaps · Apr 2, 2014

Absolutely. Well framed and good timing. At least the red photographs well! shows up nicely in the first photo. You got the action with the backgrounds looking good too.

The only one I'd maybe either adjust or not use is the last one, empty seats and some guy on his phone which detract somewhat. Or if you want the fans/endzone I would have probably tried to get a vertical shot or crop the left side; if they ever want photos of crowd shots or signage obviously you don't want fans looking too cut off in the scene (at least that's been my experience), you'd want something like #7 which is a great shot.

Hof8231 · Apr 3, 2014

vintagesnaps said:
Absolutely. Well framed and good timing. At least the red photographs well! shows up nicely in the first photo. You got the action with the backgrounds looking good too.

The only one I'd maybe either adjust or not use is the last one, empty seats and some guy on his phone which detract somewhat. Or if you want the fans/endzone I would have probably tried to get a vertical shot or crop the left side; if they ever want photos of crowd shots or signage obviously you don't want fans looking too cut off in the scene (at least that's been my experience), you'd want something like #7 which is a great shot.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I wish that picture of him showboating into the end zone was better. For the reason you said, and also because the focus is just slightly off. Hopefully we'll get more fans as the season progresses. I HATE having a lot of empty seats in sports photos.