Football: A Kennedy RB Running for his life

What do you guys think? In advance, the young man on the left has

everything I have of him included. I think his "bisection" doesn't

mar the photo too badly, and I like the sense of motion here, almost

a whirlpool (kind of anyway) I think it pulls the viewer in.

 

What are your thoughts?

I like this photo because of the way you've caught the urgency and movement of the situation at a high shutter speed. You're right that the bisectioning (however painfull it was for the fella in red!) doesn't take anything away from the photo.

 

However there does seems to be something lacking. I think it may have too many colours with not enough detail to hold the viewers eye. There's something about the crossbar of the goal that doesn't seem quite right either (it may be possible to brush it or crop it out without losing anything else from the picture).

 

On the whole though I like the action that comes out of it.

 

(This is my first comment btw, so feel free to tell me if I'm way off line!)

A shallower depth of field would have been better, the in-focus goal post detracts from the action up front.

 

Good picture overall.

A few things. 1. try kneeling the next time you shoot sports. 2. why ISO 800 when you're outdoors? Drop this down to 200, maybe 320 if it's cloudy. 3. f/9.5 is WAY TOO much. Try f/4-f/5.6 4. as far as cropping, does the guy on the left even need to be there? Try this: crop just above the helmet of the red player hitting the white player, slice the red player in half vertically. See how this version looks.

Brian,

 

I use 800 when I shoot sports, generally, I found 400 wasn't as crisp as I liked (mostly baseball however, I will give it a shot for FB). As to aperture it was auto setting aperture and exposure (this was fairly early on) I will keep your recommendations in mind next season. That lens is gone, replaced with bigger glass, so I will definitely experiment. Thanks for the cropping suggestion as well. My only thought on that is that without the other kids on the left in frame, it doesn't seem to have as much movement.