OC Soccer Game

Shot with a 40D + 300 F4L IS + 1.4xII

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Are all but the first uncropped?
The action is decent in more than half, but I am definitely not a fan of the crops (if they are even cropped. Many are cropped far to loose for my taste and some are not even levelled.

At least with the first one, you did some cropping and hopefully I assume you had no choice on the first but to have the foot amputated. I would still have cropped closer on the left of that one.

The crossbar on #3 and #5 is especially distracting.

On #5, I would have cropped really close to the girl on the right's elbow to lose the spectator that was already sliced in half length-wise.

On the last one, since she isn't really tangled up with a defender, I probably would have cropped it to just include her upper body/head/ball and make her facial expression the subject of the shot.

I will say that the timing on many is pretty good with the ball contacting the player, the focus is sharp, and the exposure is good (looks like you hadpartly cloudy weather, which helps).

Now that I am thinking about it, since these are shot with a 1.6x crop body, a 300mm focal length AND a 1.4x TC, most (all but the first?) just about have to be uncropped. You should be able to lose the TC (and by doing so, improve the AF accuracy) and still have plenty of resolution left for good crops on at least 3/4 of the pitch even if you're behind the end line.

Regards,
Jeff

i like the expression in #4

how did you get them that sharp
PP?
whats the exlf?

good stuff