Soccer - something new for me

jimqjrjimqjr Registered Users Posts: 250 Major grins
edited November 14, 2013 in Sports
Thanks for looking. This was a game about faces... I usually shoot in portrait and keep things pretty tight. I tried something new. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks for the comments.

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4. This was the attempt to head the ball...he got close.
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5. Not even close to actually kicking the Soccer Ball.... No body parts were injured in this shot.
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Comments

  • T. BombadilT. Bombadil Registered Users Posts: 286 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2013
    Love the expressions! I would be very pleased if I had made these photos.
    Bruce

    Chooka chooka hoo la ley
    Looka looka koo la ley
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,949 moderator
    edited November 13, 2013
    Good looking pictures! Love the angle you shot from and the action you captured!
    Moderator Journeys/Sports/Big Picture :: Need some help with dgrin?
  • jimqjrjimqjr Registered Users Posts: 250 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2013
    T. Bombadil wrote: »
    Love the expressions! I would be very pleased if I had made these photos.

    Thanks Bruce
  • jimqjrjimqjr Registered Users Posts: 250 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2013
    ian408 wrote: »
    Good looking pictures! Love the angle you shot from and the action you captured!

    Thanks Ian.
    I think,I should have been laying on the ground. These kids usually ran face down chasing the ball.
  • lifeinfocuslifeinfocus Registered Users Posts: 1,461 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2013
    Well done. I remember when my sons played at a very young age and it was called swarm ball and then they moved to playing the game and other sports.

    Your objective of capturing facial expressions was a great idea. You certainly did met your goal!

    In general, my favorite thing to remember for sports photography is FACT - Face, Action, Contact (with Toy, person, etc.) and Toy (ball, stick, etc.) and when you get all four you are very lucky. Certainly some of those above have all four and the others are excellent too. Well done!
    Phil
    http://www.PhilsImaging.com
    "You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
    Phil
  • jmphotocraftjmphotocraft Registered Users Posts: 2,987 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2013
    Nice work, I shoot youth sports too. A few could be cropped tighter, but I like the stories being told here. Good job getting low, shooting manual, and shooting wide open.
    -Jack

    An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
  • jimqjrjimqjr Registered Users Posts: 250 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2013
    lifeinfocus wrote: »
    Well done. I remember when my sons played at a very young age and it was called swarm ball and then they moved to playing the game and other sports.

    Your objective of capturing facial expressions was a great idea. You certainly did met your goal!

    In general, my favorite thing to remember for sports photography is FACT - Face, Action, Contact (with Toy, person, etc.) and Toy (ball, stick, etc.) and when you get all four you are very lucky. Certainly some of those above have all four and the others are excellent too. Well done!
    Phil

    Thanks Phil,
    I always try for FACT, though I generally change eye for face. They kids closed their eyes before contact during contact and a lot of the times after. I have a sequence of one boy kicking the ball and I don't think anyone could have kicked higher than he did. Foot above head, eyes closed and the ball well it went a few feet in the wrong direction. The White team has won every game, this one was 5-0.
  • jimqjrjimqjr Registered Users Posts: 250 Major grins
    edited November 14, 2013
    jmphotocraft wrote: »
    Nice work, I shoot youth sports too. A few could be cropped tighter, but I like the stories being told here. Good job getting low, shooting manual, and shooting wide open.

    Thanks Jack,
    I always crop to the original size photo and not because I know anything. I am totally self taught have a desire to take a good photo and shoot for my enjoyment. What ever insight you can provide I would be happy to listen and consider.

    Some day I might be as smart as my old camera and then maybe understand how it works. In the mean time I am just trying to figure it out. So far so good.
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