Matthew Durr Photography

If you haven’t been able to tell from my recently lowered volume of posts lately, I’ve been busy. Classes getting into session and photography assignments are making it difficult to keep up with the website (such as working on the 36-72mm review). Fortunately, I still have a bit of time to share some of my assignments with everyone, such as the first soccer game of the 2012 season. Coincidentally, this was actually my first time photographing soccer. It’s a whole ‘nother ball game (no pun intended). Unlike baseball and basketball, where there are general areas I can pre-focus on to get near the action, soccer is quite literally all over the field. Let’s just say it is testing my manual focus skills, heavily. Though, I’m sure I’ll get much better as the season progresses and I get back into the swing of things. After all, it’s been 4 months since my last time photographing sports. Hopefully I’m just rusty. 🙂

All of the following taken with the NEX-7 and Nikon 180 or 300mm f/2.8 AI-s ED. Lighting was dull due to clouds (it was actually spitting rain most of the time), but at least it made it easy to keep exposures consistent. 🙂

Eye on the Prize
300mm, ISO 100, f/3.2, 1/1000

Airborne
300mm, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1000

Closing Rush
180mm, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1000

Just for a little bit of a “DOH” moment, I had a couple shots here and there that I’m kicking myself for not getting into focus:

Slide Tackle (slightly OOF, though the ball is in focus, anyway…haha)
300mm, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1000

That’s all for this post guys and gals, thank you for dropping by. Have a great day. 😀