soccer adventures

As I mentioned Thursday, I had the opportunity photograph a bit of my brother's soccer game a few weeks ago (he's the player with the yellow shoes in case you're wondering). Actually, my mom volunteered me to help out with taking action shots for a slide show that (apparently) will be played at an end-of-season something-or-other.  (In case you haven't noticed, I'm not really involved in CJ's soccer;)  But, I had a lot of fun and am rather pleased with the result:)

A few things I learned during the shoot?

a | I need a telephoto lens - bad.  135mm ain't gonna cut it.  (Any donors will be loved and adored by me until their very last day.)

b | It is extremely hard to get a good action shot without the subject being partially blurry (in a bad way, that it).  Gah.

and c | I might possibly be color blind when behind a lens.

Why do I say that?  Well, you see, our team is blue.  The opposing team is green.  But?  Looking back, I seem to have a lot of photos focused on players in green.  Like these....

Whoops.  Not a blue player in focus.  Um, my bad!  But green is a pretty color, don't you think? ;)

With all that I've learned in mind, I'm hoping to make it to another game before the season ends so that I can practice shooting them a bit more.  As I proved in Thursday's post, there are some seriously awesome soccer players on that team. ;)  (Translation:  Everyone on the team is a heck of a lot better at soccer than yours truly.  Which, sadly, isn't too much of a complement.)

Oh, and I had to throw these few shots in as well...

Some supportive siblings paying zero attention to the game and playing...was it Polly Pockets?  I forget.

I am led to think that this little friend of mine was inspired by my taking pictures.  At any rate, he got out his mom's cell phone and decided to take a few action shots of his own.  Look at him go!

And, Stephen.  His signature move whenever I point the camera at him.  I guess he's using the if-I-can't-see-you-your-camera-can't-see-me approach.  Or something like that.
Have a lovely weekend everyone...and let me know what you think of these:)

-Hannah