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[jimmywires]

well today was my first time shooting football.please C &C's welcome


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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9335.jpg


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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9342.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9355.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9357.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9463.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9482.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9485.jpg

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_9417.jpg

[manutd101]

Watch cropping the feet and exposure. Good work for your first time though :)

[jimmywires]

i was shooting in AV mode some pics were fine some were over and some under exposed go figure. Is there a rule of thumb for cropping football? The frame is so loaded with arms ,legs ect..

[Trainboy]

i was shooting in AV mode some pics were fine some were over and some under exposed go figure.
Mmm, Manual...

[40Dude6aedyk]

i was shooting in AV mode some pics were fine some were over and some under exposed go figure. Is there a rule of thumb for cropping football? The frame is so loaded with arms ,legs ect..
Here are some rules:
1. Don't chop off bits of feet, hands, arms, helmut of the main player. It might be better to cut the whole leg off than just the tip of shoe.
2. Try to leave a gap between a helmut, hand, shoe and the edge of the photo. Try to make the gaps relatively even.
3. Know about the rule of thirds. Your third photo has the ball at one-third from the top, one-third from the right. This is good. But it could be a face, a player, something else important in this coveted spot in your photo.
4. Pretend the main player is not in your photo and look around the edges of your cropping. Don't cut anybody in the background in half along an edge even if they are out-of-focus. Look in your photo #1. In the background the girl on the left is slightly cropped and the player on the right has his shoulder pad slightly cropped. I would try not to do that myself. Look at #2; you have scalped the folks sitting on the sidelines. Look at #7: It looks like you are cropping for 4x6 in all the shots, but you have random arms in the upper right. If you cropped off things on the left, I would have moved the whole view leftward to get rid of the disembodied hand on the right and include more of the black-gloved hand on the left.
5. Do not crop through letters and insignia. Our eyes are trained to read words and numbers, so when a piece of the lettering is missing, it sets up cognitive dissonance and we subconsciously don't like what we see. Your #5 has croppped off a touch of the insignia on the shoulder pad.

I do realize that sometimes the shot doesn't have all the pieces in place and you have to go with what you have. But if you are looking around the edges when you frame the shot, then you will have more leeway with cropping.

[jimmywires]

thanks 40dude how bout this crop any better?

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http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w147/jimmywires/sports%20file/IMG_94855x7.jpg

[40Dude6aedyk]

thanks 40dude how bout this crop any better?
Yep, I like it alot better. What do YOU think?

[scrumpy]

Dumb question :oops:
I like the shots, but since we don't have this version of football in the UK, I'm curious about the purpose of the bracket that extends from the face guard into the mouth. Why doesn't it injure the mouth/teeth upon impact? See #5.

[jimmywires]

its a rubber mouth piece