Soccer pics with new 50D

Gringriff

First day out with the new Canon 50D using the 70-200mm with 1.4 extender. These are form last Saturday's late afternoon games with the bigger kids.

Thanks for looking,
-Andy

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tjk60

congrats on the new gear! a few keepers here, watch you backgrounds (tough on these kinds of fields I know!) and your horizons!

Gringriff

Thanks for the reply. Yes the backgrounds are always there even when I don't want them. I need to work more at getting them out of the shot.

On the horizons, I actually straighten nearly every picture before cropping. We have some rolling hills, even the fields not level, plus the fences have slanted posts. So sometimes I am using an estimated level horizon to rotate the pictures.

Good job of commenting on so many posts.

budman101

If you are in doubt about a horizon line just use any straight line in the background. The viewer does not know that a field is uphill. But they will notice the uphill fence in the background.
If you don't have a decent horizontal to adjust to try using the player's eyes to set your horizon line.
Also see if you can crop #12 so you can just get the player's head, sweat spray, and ball in the shot. If you are using PS or LR boost the clarity to max. Up the saturation and maybe the vibrancy about +5 each. See how that turns out. Yes I know that this will cut off a player's head but if you mess with it in PS enough you can make a selection of the sweat, sweaty head and ball. Now inverse the selection set the feather to about 30 then add some light blur to the rest of the image.
Don't forget if this is a .jpg and you are working in PS with the original to work on a layer copy and not the base image. LR does not matter.