I haven't taken my (manual focus) Tamron 300/2.8 out in a while, so I decided to bring it to the West Chester University football game against Kutztown. The monopod also got a rare outing, and boy was it easy to use this setup. I don't normally use the monopod because I'm moving around a lot, but for this scenario where I was sitting in one place the whole time the monopod was priceless.
All of these are shot in manual mode on my Pentax K10D, since the light didn't change much I kept it pretty much constant throughout the night. All shots are at f/2.8. Oh yeah, SR was
not on for the shots.
(Larger sizes and some EXIF available by clicking on the images.)
Our quarterback had a pretty good night.
Their quarterback...not so much.
I was able to chase the action better than I thought. I think having the monopod allowed me to concentrate on focusing. Here is a punt return in progress.
In all, most of the photos were sharply in focus and purple fringing/chromatic aberrations were nicely controlled. It was a nice cold, clear night and best of all the home team won. I'll probably go to more games since it was so much fun to shoot this one.
--Sean
Number two is great!
Originally posted by khardur 
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