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Wexford 3-16 Antrim 1-11
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Pat a great set well done on the first attempt.
I really like the third,fifth and last shot. The DOF in 3rd and last is spot on.
Love seeing GAA shots on here, maybe just leave the score out next time :DSoda
Thanks Soda, really enjoyed it. I’ve done a lot of soccer over the season but I found the hurling much better…having said that I had a new lens too…100-400 L…lovely bit of stuff.
Pat
Hi Pat,
I was at the game as well on the the opposite side to the goal.
Nice action there. Don’t be afraid to crop a bit tighter.
Colm
Thanks Colm, appreciate you looking and your comment. I’m no expert at the sports photography[or any other for that matter :D ] But crop tighter?? I thought I had gone to the limit???
Pat
Hi Pat a good start….
Here are my brief comments, take these as they are meant a way to improve
# 1 A shot of the back of the player, try to get the players face if you can
# 2 Nice composition but a little underexposed
# 3 The shot is too wide and the background doesn’t help, try to shoot tighter and watch your background
# 4 Crop tighter
# 5 Similar to number 3 but a much better crop
# 6 Once again its of the back of the player like in number 1
Regards
No prob Pat.
As Peter said above, it is better if you get the facial expressions but there are times that you have to use what you have and in that case try to concentrate on the face of the players around whoever is in possession.
In terms of cropping generally fill the frame with everything you want in the picture. Decide what is best to leave in and what to leave out and it will make your cropping a lot better.
It is great if you have a nice background but in a county ground, championship 1st round they place will look empty and horrible so I wouldn’t worry about it.
Concentrate on the framing and cropping first, that would be my advice at least
Thanks Peter and Colm for you valued advise, it is much appreciated. If you wouldn’t mind having a look at some more I’d appreciate your opinion. I think all these and the others may have been at full zoom with a Canon 100-400L 4.5-5.6 and a 50D.
On some of the hurling ones I was shooting against the sun!!!
Shooting into the sun is ideal that way you can set your exposure on the shadow.
You can see that the closer you subject is to the camera, the more out of focus the background is. Ideally you can wait for the subjects to come closer to you – but the closer they get the harder it can be for capture the subjects in the frame.
The third one is much better in terms of exposure and framing. In the last one try cropping in tighter (right in).
realise
Obviously the further the subject is away from you and depending how much you crop can affect the quality of the image.At the start it took me a long time to realise that what I thought was a good image was only an ok image and this resulted in my sports coming on slower than it should have.
Best thing do is put up two images of what you think is a good image and what you think is a bad image and others can explain why they agree or disagree.
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