First attempt at Football

vaio2006

This is from early September, but this is my first attempt at High School American football (in JAPAN)












Singing the US & Japanese National Anthems

http://gallery.darkseastudios.com/ASIJ/2009-2010/nichidai96/

I would appreciate some feed back and any tips on how to improve

Thanks

- Tai

du8die

With sports, you want to get in as close as possible. Personally, I like portrait orientation the best - try to fill 2/3 of the frame. Get low - especially with kids.

#2 and #3 are decent - but would be better cropped in quite a bit. In #2, try to isolate the player with the ball.

Here's a few examples...







Keep shootin, and keep postin'.

vaio2006

Kinda like this?



Okay well #3 was completely out of focus / Motion Blurred.. FML


Found this one too.. does this work?


When i shoot soccer, I usually do portrait... I don't know why I shot all the football ones landscape... I guess I need to learn the rules a little more. I kept on following the wrong guy...

du8die

Yes! A lot better.

Also, expose for the face. (which it seems you've done) That (for me) means that I bump up the Exposure Compensation by 2/3 of a stop usually. Especially when I'm shooting into the sun.

Thanks!

Jacobovs

I agree with the cropping tightly for sports. The only other comment would be not ( in general) cropping the limbs. All of the shots you cropped cut out the legs of the players. Obviously this can't always be achieved , but it makes for better shots.