[GvilleRick]

We had to move our football game from Friday night to Saturday afternoon due to lightning. The extra light allowed me to pull out the Bigma. This first shot caused me to cringe as I saw it in the viewfinder but fortunately the player is ok.







I switched to the Sigma 70-200 at the half.

[jdplante71]

K-70 with 55-300 PLM. Conditions were wet so I was very happy for the weather-sealing.

[mattb123]

Fall riding near Crested Butte

[volley]

... This one may be X-posted ...
A typical crash during a Motoball game, nothing special and a helpful referee

K1 and DA* 4/60-250

[ThorSanchez]

U13 NCSL travel soccer with the K-3ii and 55-300PLM.

[Tas]

Forgot to post this one last year, K1 and the D-FA 70-200mm.



Tas

[iheiramo]

M*300 & K1ii:

[iheiramo]

M135 & K1ii:

[iheiramo]

[ThorSanchez]

It was pouring rain today, so I didn't risk the K-3ii and 55-300PLM combo, and instead got a few shots with the K-30 and the 18-55 kit lens. I figured if the weather sealing failed I wouldn't be that upset.

I had the K-30 set on SCN mode with the running guy icon, which I took to mean sports mode that prioritizes shutter speed. In seven years I've never used the SCN mode before, but I think I'd put it there because my wife was going to use it a few weeks ago for another soccer game. And I didn't have my sports preset that I use on the K-3ii. Well... I should have set up TAv and 1/1000th or so before I left, since doing it in the rain wasn't going to happen. Come to find out, with the camera on 100 ISO, SCN sports mode ends up with a shutter speed of 1/50 or slower much of the time. It apparently doesn't change ISO at all. I know, read the manual.

Anyway, with 55mm max and hobbled by SCN mode and a pouring rain I didn't exactly get Sports Illustrated-level photos. But a few that weren't terrible, and a few that were so terrible I could turn them into 3rd-rate "art".

[Kerrowdown]

You could come back next week, the pitch is not quite ready...

[GvilleRick]

Last night was our last regular season home game. I used my K1 and had some problems with the mirror sticking up so that I had to turn off the camera. I also had my AF button come off last week so I'm not able to use back button focus. I sent the camera in for repairs today so hoping it won't take forever. I do have my K3 as a backup so I'll use it while the K1 is in the shop. Anyway, here are some shots from last night. It was a muddy field since it rained hard the day before.

Ready to enter the field:


This was a nice catch but it was called back:


Defense held them to 83 yards of offense and 47 of those yards came on one TD pass. Here was a stop:


TD run:

[dosdan]

Our family recently went for a 2 week holiday in NZ to visit relatives. I was not expecting to shoot sports. So with my K-3 I only took Pentax DA 17-70/F4, FA 50/F1.7 and DA 35/F2.4 lenses. I used these with a Sigma 530 Super flash gun to shoot a 1st Birthday event in a hall.

While in NZ, my 17yo son was asked did he want to train with a local U18 rugby team ((Pukekohe Rugby Football Club - Home). Rugby is very, very popular in NZ. He had just started playing rugby at school in 2019, (he previously played soccer for 10yrs), but only played it for a few games before suffering a partially-dislocated shoulder injury early in the season.He hasn't been able to play rugby since then. And he hasn't done any running or track work,concentrating instead on the field events of Discus, Javelin and Shot-put.

He accepted the invitation and attended a couple of team training sessions that week. He had to borrow boots, socks and a team jersey for the match on Saturday. The coach placed him out on the wing.

Since he had not played with this team before, they were unfamiliar with him and he didn't receive the ball much. But in one of the few times he got to touch the ball, he took off and scored a try. This made him happy because I think he was a bit worried that he might embarrass himself in front of his new teammates with his lack of experience. He was lucky because the linesman missed seeing his foot touching the sideline.

I'd never shot rugby before. Since 70mm was my highest FL and since my son was out on the wing, I decided to stand close to the goal-line on his side of the field and hope that he'd run towards me at some stage. I was set up with 9-point AF which proved problematic at the start of this sequence, as the centre of frame had no players. I've used FocusMaqic to improve these early shots a bit, and they're included here to provide context. My lack of experience with rugby shooting is shown in how I didn't anticipate how quickly I would need to pan, so the last shot only has him partially in-frame. But I think the sequence captures the drama well. The early shorts are heavily cropped due to working at a large distance with 70mm FL.

1/1600s, ISO250-320, f/5.6, FL70mm down to 17mm at the end, AF.C 9-point.
























Dan.

[GvilleRick]

Glad to have my K1 back from the shop before basketball season started. Here are shots from the first home game we had.

[edri]

KP+DA55-300