HS Boy's JV LAX

OldGuy

First LAX in a couple of years yesterday. Bitter cold. The temp had to be in the twenty's with wind and snow flakes. I didn't stick around for the Varsity.:huh

C&C always welcome. All shot with the D700 FX, 300 f4 @ 1/500, ISO 400, AutoWB.

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Mike J

#2 rocks! Great capture of the emotion of the game. #5 is good as well but could do with some cropping to lose some space off the bottom. The others for me are okay but I can't connect with them as I can't really see faces. Getting faces in sports shots is one of the first things I learned here. 9 times out of 10 it makes for a better shot.

bluesman graham

Great colours John,
I'm no expert on LAX but that looks like one hell of a bumpy pitch to run on

I guess he didn't know he'd lost the ball in #3:D. Kind regards Graham.

wmstumme

I like the work--espcially the ghost check in #3. I find JV can be much tougher to photograph, because the kids do some very unpredictable things and get in to "classic" positions less often.

OldGuy

bluesman graham wrote: »

Great colours John,
I'm no expert on LAX but that looks like one hell of a bumpy pitch to run on

I guess he didn't know he'd lost the ball in #3:D. Kind regards Graham.

Thanks Graham. I haven't seen the field before and it is very un-even. The school just finished a major expansion including their athletic facilities and this may be the old track & field venue.
I think the kid ran at least another 5 yards before he realized he didn't have the ball.....1

wmstumme wrote: »

I like the work--espcially the ghost check in #3. I find JV can be much tougher to photograph, because the kids do some very unpredictable things and get in to "classic" positions less often.

Thanks Will. Yeah, they did some unpredictable things like passing the ball to the other team...

Mike J wrote: »

#2 rocks! Great capture of the emotion of the game. #5 is good as well but could do with some cropping to lose some space off the bottom. The others for me are okay but I can't connect with them as I can't really see faces. Getting faces in sports shots is one of the first things I learned here. 9 times out of 10 it makes for a better shot.

Thanks Mike. I really do make every effort to capture faces, but sometimes the player turns or looks away at the last second and with LAX you see a lot of the action with everyone looking at the ground...read "ball".