MattGrey

At 200mm, focusing just 10m away is giving yourself a very small dof to work with, around 30cm. Great for bokeh, but on a moving target its gonna be near impossible to nail focus I'd say. Check your focus mode and make sure your on Servo so the camera constantly adjusts the focus if the subject moves. Back button focus may make it easier. Stopping down will help. Lenses down like being wide open and won't be at their sharpest. Using a slightly shorter focal length will give you more dof to play with. Less bokeh, but more room for error. If you're not familiar with dof and what affects it, do a Google search for dof calculator and play with the options to see what I mean. All that said...I'm no sports photographer so others may have better advice.

Woohoo! Thankyou

Hello! Any chance you could post an example image with exif? If you could also give estimate to the distance of your subject and state where you focused I or another member may be able to offer some ideas?

I say it's clichéd as just about everyone with a camera in Cornwall must have taken this shot at least once.

Gorgeous! Always in awe of wildlife photographers...could never do it myself. Great shot.

Cracking shot!

A cliched shot, but one I've wanted to grab for a while. Not much in the way of sunshine down there today though. EOS 6D : EF 17-40 F4L : 17mm / F7.1 / 525sec Formatt Hitech 16stop ND

Yeah, this was with a Formatt Hitech 16 stop ND.

Great capture!

I have a variable ND that goes to 10 stop but is really only useable up to about 3 stops. I use it just when I need to get around 1/3 or 1/2 second for beaches and rivers etc....

Like this! Grest shot.

No. Slightly overcast and 16 stop ND.

Posted a version of this in mono. On second look, I think this version works better. 262seconds at 28mm, F7.1

Not been out for a while...helping family move house, then other half got covid..... But got out today! 2hr drive to get 10 shots and this was my favourite. Colliford Lake, Bodmin. Bodmin, Cornwall, UK. EOS 6D : EF 17-40 F4L : 28mm / F4 / 82sec

WOW! What gorgeous light! I'm torn between 2 and 3 to pick a favourite. Great set.

Something different from the same shoot.

Thanks guys Have processed this version too. It has more water coming over the wall and I felt it was a little more interesting.

Mousehole Tidal Pool. Never been here before. Lucky find!

Made the rookie error of not checking sun position first...so really not what I had intended to shoot. Had to make the best of it.

I loved this when I saw it! Great shot and a worthy winner! Well done!

Thanks. I did try a composition with a central horizon, it made sense in my head with the lines leading the centre but it just didn't work. My eyes were certainly drawn to centre but at the cost of losing any sense of the overall view.

Had this shot in mind for a week or so but it's been so cloudy I haven't been able to grab it....also tricky to get this exposure as this wall is popular with the locals and trying to get 205 seconds to myself is harder than it sounds.

Cracking set! 2 is definitely my favourite.

Love this shot! Missed it in the original post. Great choice and a well deserved win.

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