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Soccer season has started up for the kids again. This also being the first season for our 3 year old Colin.

This is my first season now shooting with some Canon “L” glass, my 70-200 f2.8, it does scream “hello I’m an expensive Canon, lense”. For all other previous years I’d been shooting with the very respectable 75-300mm Canon lense. To compensate for the shortcoming on reach with my new lense I have a 1.4 teleconvertor mounted to get me close on the long end (270mm).

For the shots posted I was shooting as high a shutter speed as possible (naturally) with the lowest ISO I could get away with. In the end, due to a setting sun I ended up settling on ISO of 1000, did some unsharp mask (for sharpening) in photoshop, and then ran a noise filter to clean up the noise (graininess).

On to the soccer. Noah played forward in the first half and was in goal for the second half. So obviously these shots are out of sequence. It just so happens I didn’t get any fantastic first half shots, and I generally like to put my best stuff up first… kinda like watching Saturday Nigh Live, all their best stuff is at the beginning while the less memorable skits are always left for the second half of the show.

In his opening game (due to a scheduling mix-up he missed the actual first game) and he scored the first goal. What a great moment, although not in a great position for capturing of this moment, I was atleast able to get the sequence.

I was pretty happy with his goaltending pics. A lucky composition and some good timing helped me get this first shot. Although the image did not come out razor sharp, I was still able to sharpen a bit in photoshop. 

The end of this match up ended in a 4-4 draw, or a tie as it is also know. There wasn’t an overtime, or a shootout. Just a fantastic game that deservedly ended in a draw.

I have 2 more kids also in soccer to help me fill up this blog through the summer. So check back for some more pictures of the kids enjoying summer soccer.

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