Girl's Lax

wmstumme

Finally out of the indoor gym and back outside. It was the first pre-season game for my daughter's high school Girl's Lax teams.

Also finally got to try out my new Sigma 50-500 (it was really fun!).

Only thing, I forgot to reset the ISO from indoors, so I shot everything at 800, but doesn't look like it picked up too much noise. However, grass is still pretty dry, no a lot of color in these early spring shots...

Regards

Will





My wife took this one:

likwid

Hi Will.

Great pics. I think the first one would look good if you made a closer crop that only keeps the girl with her mouth open, the girl jumping and the goalie. That is what i find interesting in the picture and it would bring more focus to them and remove any distractions. I really like the last one that your wife took. Intense

// Sebastian

wmstumme

Better?



Generally I like to crop pretty closely, but I had just recently had a brief talk with one of the coaches who told me she likes to look at the pictures and figure out what things the girls are doing right/wrong, etc. (Like why is #7 just standing there?) So they like the crop wider...

I also worry about cropping too closely since I'm never sure what dimension prints folks may want--and leaving a little excess seems to leave more options for the customer when cropping. What do other folks do with images on thier smugmug sites?

likwid

Hi.
I understand that they don't want the crop but from i photographic point of view I like this better. You get more of the action and nothing is distracting your mind.

Now I can really see what a great pic it is.

// Sebastian