High School Football Game Photos

photodad1

I took the photos below of our local football High School team. C&C are welcome.

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MDalby

Good job catching action.

I would crop much tighter. If the players are not directly impacting the play, cut them out of the shot like in #4. A lot of dead space in these. several of the shots seem to be underexposed to me.

johng

my general comment is: shoot more portrait orientation. The majority of shots (and your shots 2-5) have more vertical component than horizontal. Shooting landscape leaves too much dead space on the sides and you press body parts up against the frame (or cut off feet entirely). As mentioned you got some nice action but faces are not exposed well. I think you're making some nice progress. For next game:
1) shoot portrait orientation
2) brighten your exposure so faces are better exposed

But you're definitely on the right track.

photodad1

johng wrote: »

my general comment is: shoot more portrait orientation. The majority of shots (and your shots 2-5) have more vertical component than horizontal. Shooting landscape leaves too much dead space on the sides and you press body parts up against the frame (or cut off feet entirely). As mentioned you got some nice action but faces are not exposed well. I think you're making some nice progress. For next game:
1) shoot portrait orientation
2) brighten your exposure so faces are better exposed

But you're definitely on the right track.

I was using ISO 2000. Do you recommend bumping up to ISO 2500 or 3200 next time? I am shooting with a Canon 7D and Canon 70-200mm F2.8L. Or should I just bump up the exposure in Lightroom 3?

photodad1

johng wrote: »

my general comment is: shoot more portrait orientation. The majority of shots (and your shots 2-5) have more vertical component than horizontal. Shooting landscape leaves too much dead space on the sides and you press body parts up against the frame (or cut off feet entirely). As mentioned you got some nice action but faces are not exposed well. I think you're making some nice progress. For next game:
1) shoot portrait orientation
2) brighten your exposure so faces are better exposed

But you're definitely on the right track.

Thanks for the feedback. I processed the photos in Photo Mechanic and only had a couple of minutes to send out to meet the newspapers deadline.

adbsgicom

photodad1 wrote: »

I was using ISO 2000. Do you recommend bumping up to ISO 2500 or 3200 next time? I am shooting with a Canon 7D and Canon 70-200mm F2.8L. Or should I just bump up the exposure in Lightroom 3?

General rule. 7D can handle 3200 and you are much better off getting the exposure right (using all the bits in the camera) than doing it in post (where you've already lost data to 0x00 because you under exposed). Especially if you are shooting jpeg.

Where in NC are you. We just moved to Greensboro about 5 months ago...

photodad1

adbsgicom wrote: »

General rule. 7D can handle 3200 and you are much better off getting the exposure right (using all the bits in the camera) than doing it in post (where you've already lost data to 0x00 because you under exposed). Especially if you are shooting jpeg.

Where in NC are you. We just moved to Greensboro about 5 months ago...

I live in Raleigh. I have been here for 10 years.