Woman's Football C&C

dbveto · April 5, 2011

Ok at johng suggestion that I start posting some of my shots for some gentile critic. Oh who cares about gentile if its honest I will take it.

These are just a couple from the latest game I shot

one

Two

Three

Four

dbveto · April 5, 2011

I didn't think they were that bad? 55 views and no comments.

Yergi · April 5, 2011

I like #4.
#3 is missing the impending attacker
#2 i wish was framed with the open space to the coming action. To much "back-court" is what i call it. I guess it would be back-field. (behind the action)
#1 just isnt very interesting to me.

The editing looks to be too saturated for me. I just dont like the glowing grass. Maybe it is astro-turf so it does glow, but it looks like an editing technique to me.

Just one man's opinion.

Kikoprice · April 5, 2011

Looks like you made a pretty heavy crop on your photos. If you dont have any longer glass, then wait until the action comes to you. If you have sideline access try not to get too far down field unless you have longer glass. Remember eyes, ball, action. Frame tighter instead of trying to crop the action closer. Keep shooting!

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Icebear · April 5, 2011

Well, I'm a gentile, so I'll offer some genteel criticism. #4 is the only one that does anything for me. The other's are neither fish nor fowl. Not wide enough to give a real idea of what's going on, not tight enough (like #4) to have a personal impact. And I'd have cropped #4 even tighter.

Molotov Everything · April 6, 2011

My problem with #3 is that I can tell by the way she's twisting she's changing her route to avoid something, but the thing she's avoiding isn't really in the frame. Just an arm and half a head peeking in to the frame. The referee and the flagpole are in the shot, but the catalyst for the action (the would be tackler) isn't.
#4 was the best one, I liked that shot.

dbveto · April 6, 2011

Yergi
Thank you for your comments, I really can't argue with any thing you said. It was a late night editing and I did not notice the saturation until I posted them.

Kikoprice
I will have to check the originals as far as how much I cropped and I am working on getting better in my positioning.

Icebear
Thanks #4 is my favorite

Molotov Everything
I agree I wish I would have had more of the attacker in #3

Thank you all for your comments I appreciated them. I will keep shooting and posting more.

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jonh68 · April 6, 2011

Shoot tight,crop tighter and get lower so you are shooting up.

JSPhotography · April 6, 2011

Ditto all the above

nipprdog · April 6, 2011

JSPhotography wrote: »

Ditto all the above

As well as..............why are you shooting F8, ISO 800 on a sunny day???????

dbveto · April 7, 2011

nipprdog wrote: »

As well as..............why are you shooting F8, ISO 800 on a sunny day???????

I was shooting Aperture priority and it was cloudy when we started I wanted to shutter to be around 350-500, this was the first time I was shooting Aperture priority for football.

wmstumme · April 7, 2011

dbveto wrote: »

I was shooting Aperture priority and it was cloudy when we started I wanted to shutter to be around 350-500, this was the first time I was shooting Aperture priority for football.

Shooting Aperture priority is usually what I use--because that's what I'm most concerned about, the aperture setting. With most sports shots, I'm trying to get the subject in focus--but I want the background to be blurred. So, since I want a very short DOF, I'm generally going with the widest aperture the lens will allow. I only care about the speed when it starts getting too slow to stop the action, I guess I start paying attention as it goes below 1/1000. Then I start kicking up the ISO.

This happens to me as many of the games my daughters play in start in the late afternoon and approaching dusk. If the sun is bright, the ISO may be set at 200, or often 400. By the end, I've often kicked it up as far as it will go (although I hate the amount of noise my old Canon creates). And the aperture will have stayed the same the whole time...

jhefti · April 7, 2011

It also appears that several shots were backlit. Even with the best post processing, it is hard to get the contrasts right and bring out the facial features in the shadows. Given the shadows, it appears that shooting from the other end of the field might have helped. Unfortunately with sports, you get the light you get; you just need to make the best of it.

xchangx · April 7, 2011

First couple were shot at 1/350 which, in my opinion is too slow of a shutter speed for football, especially in the daytime. Getting low helps a lot with the perspective.

As others have said, shoot low and tight.

Gringriff · April 8, 2011

Open up to around F/4 (I don' know what lens you used) if possible and speed up around 1/1000. As others have said, get down low and frame much tighter.

On 1 and 2 potrait mode and tighter framing would really help.

Three is getting a little better but tighter framing and faster shutter speeds should help. Also use those large poles in the background as vertical cues to straighten the images.

Four looks the best mainly because of tighter framing. Again watch the alignment. One other thing in 4 it looks more blue than the others, maybe a slight WB adjustment would help.

Keep shooting and posting. Don't see many posts on women's football so thanks for sharing.

Andy

torags · April 9, 2011

Ditto above

#3 looks like a better exposure than #4.

I like f4 also since you can get two players in pretty good focus.

You might like to try a CP if you have one at that time of day

Maybe the grass is too green because of a vivid setting. Happened to me with polo.

Looks like it was warm; would be nice if they played in shorts and tee shirts (with pads on top of course)...:D

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