Salthill Five a Sides

DRakE

Hi all!
Had my first go at doing some sports photography over the weekend, i absolutely LOVED IT.
Here's some of my favourite images, i've not made any edits to any of them so i'm sure some could benefit from cropping or other pp but I've put them up right from the camera here for advice


Salthill Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

Salthill Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

Salthill Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

Salthill Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

Salthill National Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

Thanks for looking, any feedback appreciated!

parttime

Cool photos, my young lad is in the second photo... good looking young chap isn't he!

Paulw

From a sports perspective, there is nothing in the 2nd photo. I certainly wouldn't use it.

Images #3 and #5 I would crop in to the action a lot tighter.

Otherwise, a nice set of images.

kensutz

First one is the best of the bunch.

2 has no impact and it's just 2 players looking down at a ball that can't be seen.

3 isn't capturing peak action. The player is controlling a ball but 2 players behind him are distracting. Even a tight crop wouldn't work.

4 you're standing and looking down on the players. Doesn't work, also doesn't work because there's a huge gap in between the players.

5 had it been a fraction of a second earlier it would have been ok. The ball is a mile away from the players, you'd need it closer to them and a tight crop.

DRakE

That's exactly the kind of feedback I'm after thanks I'll do some cropping and see what I can get together. I have loads more images too I might post some more of my better ones as well. Thanks

DRakE

How about this one?


cropped from

Salthill Five a Sides by xlan's photos, on Flickr

kensutz

Good crop. The amount of dead space around him in the original takes it away. When I was photographing at Wembley I had to use something similar to your un cropped image to get in as much England crests etc for stock images. It's the only time that it will work.

Eli Nich

Cam result is good but I definitely would have liked more if these were from some UCL finals or Semi's may be