Strictly Rugby!

[mammarazzi]

Grey rainy Boxing Day rugby match Newport v Cross Keys, virtually no light managed to capture this lovely dance move

[Sam Smith]

Great action shot.

[Donald]

I agree. Very good sports action shot, Joanne.

[CanonLady52]

Spot on !! Well seen and captured.

[speedneeder]

Great shot Joanne. Can you give any details about how the image was taken? ISO, shutter, aperture, tripod?
Thanks

[mammarazzi]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your comments always appreciated, the image was captured as I wandered up and down the terrace section trying to follow the action. No tripod just rather cold shakey hands, ISO 3200, 1/200 and F5, shot on my EOS 550D and 100-400 IS L Lens. Just luck as usual but I know a fair amount about the game so I try to predict when there could be some interesting action and hope for the best

Joanne

[speedneeder]

Thanks for your reply Joanne.
ISO 3200 is surprising - I tend to get some noise/grain at ISO 3200. Anything in particular you are doing with noise control? I realize that resized this small it may just be sampled out, but the hockey dad in me wants to know! I try to stick with ISO 1600 or lower on my Canon 60D, and I would love to be able to have another stop of light for indoor hockey photos in particular.
On an unrelated topic, I was wondering, on that wonderful photo of your daughter you submitted in last month's contest, did you add just a bit gaussien blur to that?

[mammarazzi]

Hi Brian, I'm not sure why the photo didn't have as much grain as expected it was really quite dark perhaps they were right under the floodlights for that shot. I did nothing other than tinker with the contrast.
On the subject of Lottie's photo, yes is the answer, I took that photo with my old Lumix and the wall behind was also in focus and was quite a distraction.

[speedneeder]

Thanks again!