ALC Celtic v Crossgates WMC

The Match

I returned to watch local football team, ALC Celtic play again today, unfortunately they were beaten 5-1 by Crossgates WMC in the third round of the Sunday Cup.  Once again, I'll keep my comments about the photography (I'm not qualified to speak about football), there's a match report on the team's website for those who are interested.

The Photography

Unlike the last time I saw them, the weather was fairly unpleasant. It was cold, grey and raining which was certainly more of a challenge than the nice bright day in October. Stupidly I forgot to increase the ISO enough to compensate and so ended up with a number of less than sharp shots as the shutter speed slowed to keep up with the conditions.  However, for only my second football match I'm quite pleased with the results, a good collection of acceptable shots and hopefully I've been able to catch the action reasonably well. 

Once again the Sigma 120-33mm f/2.8 proved more than lens enough for the job, in this light the Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 would certainly have been challenged to keep up with the action.  Every time I take this lens out I'm more impressed by the capability and the image quality than the time before.  Yesterday at the rally and today, proved that the autofocus works well on the 5D in low light and although I'm no weightlifter I'm have no trouble hand-holding at 300mm and still getting good results after 90 minutes.