Some more examples of the AFL crop.
My processes for AFL have simplified greatly. I used to shoot a 300 and 40-150 in tandem, but have dropped the 40-150 as too messy unless I am really pressed for time.
This means my shots are all taken at a full frame equivalent of 600mm. I also shoot wide open (300 f4, what the lens actually is, or 600mm f8 equiv.), using single shot with electronic shutter and a single line of three vertical, centred focus points.
I can stand mid ground with 60% of the ground in my sweet zone.
Sometimes this means you crop in camera.
Sometimes you crop really close. Another annoyane of captioning, the tackeler (#8) was identified by number, but not on the team sheet.
The power of the lens and sensor make the rest of the ground realistic.
I do love the freedom of sport, but the captioning thing is frustrating. In this game, the North West team only had back numbers. Annoying, as I was mostly after the Northern players who had two numbers, but had to get all the names, so it was a matter of shoot, then chase.
Below are the usable crops from the far side of the game.
I had 20 minutes for the game, got 50 odd images that worked just fine, but had to shoot 200 more to get numbers. I still missed some or decided not to bother with probably another 50 decent images. Without the need for captions, I could have taken 200 better shots.
I need to get back to the free thinking I had last year, when I was after the best shot period, then take my cahnces with number etc. It had a better hit rate, but slower and less streamlined processing, with more “lost” files.