A number of people have posted their local high school American football games. Tonight was our local high schools Homecoming game so I decided to give it a try. My first impression when I started to shoot under the field lights was that it was pure crap and not worth wasting my time. Looking at my photos on the lcd told me they were just crap. At some point in the game I decided to say screw it and shoot anyway. If I got anything great, if not... so what I knew they already looked like crap on the lcd. When I got home and looked at them on my computer I was quite blown away at how good they looked. These photos were shot at an astronomical ISO of 4000, 1/320 shutter (trying to not go higher on ISO), aperture of ~5, and between 250-300 mm on my D7100 and hand held with VR on.
Learned: ISO noise looks far worse on my lcd than it does on the computer.
Learned: ISO noise looks far worse on my lcd than it does on the computer.