Recent Football Photos

[tel48]

a few recent football photos on my first outing with the nikon 70-300mm VR lens, any comments much appreciated.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-6-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-9-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-5-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-8-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-1-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-14-resized.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g294/beachy47/furz-12-resized.jpg

[MG TF 135]

Nice shots there. Something i wanna do soon, but i'm always playing on a sunday!!

#4 is a cracker, check the elbow in the face, ouch!!
#6 is the best in my opinion, the sort of shot you would see in a sticker album.

[PoW]

Nice shots there. Something i wanna do soon, but i'm always playing on a sunday!!

#4 is a cracker, check the elbow in the face, ouch!!
#6 is the best in my opinion, the sort of shot you would see in a sticker album.


:agree:

#4 is great lol.

and #6 looks like the shot :thumbs:

edited to say the goalie in #5 look like hes expecting a lot of bounce lol.

[spencer]

Great set of shots,
No. 4 for me!:thumbs:

[Matthew]

#7 for me; the timing is spot on and i really like the composition.

[Liberalis]

Thats gotta be a foul in shot #1

Looking for the ref while taking out an ankle, tut tut, lol

Nice shots, loads of action

[Boggy]

Good set of pic's,
Remember faces=emotion so try and get them in your shots. Having the ball in the images is also a must (which these have, good job)
1 good action shot, plenty going on.
2 and 4 good timing.
3 dosen't really work for me.
6 is on the money, really good "sportrait"
5 ? Whats going on, can't tell if it's an attacker or defender and dosen't give out any signals about a goal etc just something to think about, tell the story.... could the next shot be the player celebrating or the keepers head in his hands?
7 is a nearly for me, needs the ball to be leaving his foot heading towards the goal for this type of image. Then you have the editorial picture of so and so scores etc or the next shot being the save or the strikers emotion as it's saved or scores etc.

This is just my thoughts, the main thing is do you like them?

Oh and are you standing up when you take these?

Shaun

[RobertP]

Not bad at all :)

No exif so I don't know your settings. If it is any help I have noticed Diego has shutter speeds of around 1/2000th to freeze the action. Some of yours have a fair amount of motion blur.

The shots from a lower viewpoint (or framed to look lower) do look better than the ones with the edge of the pitch half way or more up the frame.

[Steven001]

I really like these, #4 is great :D What sort of shutter speed were you using?

[Superman]

Nice pics man! :thumbs: I really like #4, that one's great.