I went up to Leicester to watch the Tigers’ first home game of the season at the weekend. It was an enjoyable game but not as replete with photographic opportunities as my last home game earlier in the year. This was down to a pretty solid defensive performance by both sides, so there were no tries run in. Also, the late kickoff meant that I hit the limits of what my camera could do by the time the second half kicked off, when the light started to fade.

This picture of Geordan Murphy is probably the best of my results on the day:

1/500 sec at f5.6, ISO 400 at 400mm

I quite like this:

1/1000 sec at f5.6, ISO 400 at 400mm

The scrum half [Hall Charlton?], as the main subject, isn’t tack sharp, showing one of the disadvantages of using only the centre focus point, but it’s still quite a reasonable capture of the action.

By the time the floodlights came on, about the most I could squeeze out of my camera at 400mm was 1/160 second at ISO 1600 – nowhere near fast enough.