My 1st T&I for C&C

[MX-ActionShots]

Can anyone please click HERE (http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/thumbpage.aspx?e=4478422) and give me some feedback on my 1st ever T&I pics? They go off to print Mon, so IF anything should be changed, let me know.

Thanks

[MJPhotos24]

Links = annoying, pull some that show the jist of the work to post so people don't have to visit an outside site, many won't take the time.

The memory mate design is good, though you have some that have the name/number messed up and don't flow well in the design, assume you'll be fixing those as it seems in the direct link you fixed it an the team photo (?) Is that a bought template or make it yourself?

As for the actual images, not a huge fan. The team photo the first thing I noticed was the hot spots on the wall and the arms to the side. It's personal preference but I always like the front row (in two rows like this) to be kneeling on one knee, all the same hands on the other knee, and back row hands behind there back or front - just the same. That's for a standard shot, you can always take a non-standard shot (I've had coaches do pyramids or goofball acting shots for example) but this falls in the standard category. Sometimes it's impossible, I can usually pick out a good dozen things wrong with a team photo I take for kids because they don't always listen to direction to well or I just plain out missed it and didn't correct them. As for the hot spot you can deter this by moving them up to the baseline and shooting, there shouldn't be shadows if exposed right.

Example: This was not close to the wall, the next team I did was as I didn't like what I did with the background and shooting too far over to create those shadows as well as the basket being off center. Lesson learned, though in the next one had another set of things wrong. Posing - something many don't like to do, but something we need to do! I kick myself in the backside when not taking the time to do so.
http://www.fourseamimages.com/TeamPOTN.jpg

As for the individual images, again way to close to a wall and it looks like the hallway. Was the gym in use? Always feel that unless you're removing the background (i.e. like this POTN member - www.propointmedia.com/sports%20imaging.html) you should shoot them in there natural atmosphere of where the games are played. The pose chosen could have been better - hand on hip and to the side a little IMO. If doing just prints mixing it up would have been nice but since you have them in a memory mate you know what fits and what won't. A laying down pose for example just wouldn't fit in that memory mate.

Sample of the pose I'm talking about; again the next team did closer to the wall but not on top of it. It helps control the light a bit more as there's not a lot of space to eat it up back there.
http://www.fourseamimages.com/TeamPOTN2.jpg