Swimming kids C&C welcome

I finished up the first day of my fundraiser shots for the swim team. We raised $1100 selling shooting sessions ($5 portrait, $15 action, with all the digital files at the end, plus $10 prints of the team). I shot for 2.5 hours, so not all of these could be in the golden hour

No pixel editing done on these, just RAW processing in DPP. I couldn't get the pool to myself, as two teams are using it for practice, so there's some stuff in the background on some...

Things I learned: 3/4 shots on butterfly will hide asymmetry in the wings. I need to start manual pre-focusing the backstroke launches. I need to experiment with flash, if it can keep up, to fight the shadows a bit.

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Those are some great shots! Well done. The symmetry of the first one is great!

All are nice #6 is a prize winner, great expression on the swimmers face.

Thanks guys. The first two are 10-y.o. twins, and they win everything. I can't take any credit for the symmetry on that one Some of the younger swimmers look like drowning victims when they're doing the butterfly!

The smile on the back launch is my favorite too. I wish I would have manual focused for it though. Next time. I think I may be able to use ML's trap focus to do this quickly. Need to experiment...

4 and 6 are my favorites

#6 is my favorite for the smile (she looks like she is having fun) with 4 & 5 close behind.. I think you caught the hand positions very well.

These are great shots, were you hanging off the edge of the pool?

I laid down on a Therm-a-Rest with the lens right on the edge of the gutter. 25yd lanes. 70x200 on aps-c (well, I guess my sig gives that away)

Crop the grass out of 4 and 5 and they are all great shots.... but the grass does nothing but distract. But yes, very nice shots.

Good point about the grass. Didn't catch that. Thanks!