Footie Photo

You know, I've been trying to get online all day - given myself a headache in the process! Anyway, an update on the footie photos...

I took 338 photos of which, maybe, four or five are decent. The rest are just blurs or completely out of focus. It's interesting because my hit rate with my non-digital camera is much higher (about 80% decent photos) but I put that down to several factors:

1) I'm still getting used to the camera, it's much lighter than I'm used to and therefore camera shake is much more likely (I have to lighten my touch)

2) I was photographing people playing football, an all-action genre and one I'm not used to

3) It was night-time, under floodlights and I didn't make any adjustments for lighting

Initially, I was a little disappointed at the low number of usable photos but, in hindsight, it's not surprising.

Here's my favourite:



I didn't get a shot of the goal but this was the goalie's reaction (and, yes, it isn't totally focussed but you get the message).