single photos Goal kick.8yr old.

The print looks a bit better. It's not as sharp after a cheep scan.

also if you can give any hints on how to make the scan better using a

flatbed scanner(Visioneer 7600)that would be a great help.

Flat bed scans are never as good as you think they should be. They're certainly not worthwhile for photographic work, for which you will want a film scanner.

As for the picture, the timing, focus and exposure are all pretty good. However, this is the sort of shot that would benefit a great deal from a wider aperture, throwing the background out of focus more. I've used the Sigma 70-300 APO Macro which you have, and the results are perfectly acceptable. Try shooting with a wider aperture. If you look in my America 2000 folder and France 1999 folder you can see some shots I took with the sigma wide open (the butterfly shots and the squirrel).