first sports post

MelP

These are a couple I took over the weekend. My daughter is a cheerleader for these little guys, so I get the opportunity to practice my shooting skills.
What lens do you guys mostly use? I was as close as I could get and using a 300mm most of the time and it just didn't seem enough.
Maybe I need to buy a bigger one





Comments and Critiques welcome,

Thanks,
Mel

JoeL

Not sure but I see no images.........

JimM

The images did not show up. I did go look at your gallery and I think they came out pretty good. They key is to stand right around the line of scrimmage. As the play comes your way, you'll have some great close-ups! It might be easier to talk through additional tips. My phone number is under contact on my website if you want to give me a call.

KMCC

Maybe you did something to correct the situation since the earlier replies, but I'm seeing your shots okay.

Nice captures.

JoeL

Great shots, nice and clear just need to Crop them tighter and keep only the action.

I have some College Football on my smugmug page if you would like to check out some Constructive Cropping. Keep up the great shooting!

www.actionshots4u.smugmug.com

MelP

thanks for the replies, everyone. I thought they might need to be cropped a little tighter.

Mel

PossumCorner

Sports suggestions and Links
Joel many thanks from us also for your tips (and links) - has been helpful and most appreciated.

mercphoto

MelP wrote:

These are a couple I took over the weekend. My daughter is a cheerleader for these little guys, so I get the opportunity to practice my shooting skills.
What lens do you guys mostly use? I was as close as I could get and using a 300mm most of the time and it just didn't seem enough.
Maybe I need to buy a bigger one
Comments and Critiques welcome,

Most football seems to be done with 300 and 400mm lenses, and from f/2.8 to f/4. The two images I saw showed faces, which is the biggest thing - don't shoot backs, shoot faces. The best improvement you can make to these shots is simply to grab the crop tool in Photoshop. Get rid of excess image and crop in tight. Its like having a longer lens as the expense of pixels. I was taught to photograph football by manually cropping nearly every single image taken.

zed

Good timing on those! I would suggest a little cropping like the others and maybe a little saturation.