(Action shots) Family rafting sequence

Hey guys, me again

While on a whitewater kayaking/motorcycling trip in the Great Smokies I took the opportunity to try my hand at some action photography (not one of my strengths). I often find my self discouraged and not wanting to take my camera out to events because I am not a very good photographer when it comes to on-the-go shooting (I think that makes me a bad photographer, period. :lol. I usually miss focus, or don't get everything I want in focus, or my exposure is off, usually all of the above.

BUT, I was particularly proud of myself for these shots and I want to get some CC on them and some advice on shooting moving objects maybe? I don't think I have my servo focus set up properly because it always seems like such a chore to shoot this stuff!

Here they are:

7D /w Sigma 50-150 2.8 II @ 150mm f5.6 1/500s 400iso

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Focus tracking looks quite good - great expressions on their faces gets the moment communicated quite well. Good job!

Looks like you nailed the focus to me

In shot #3, I thought the young lady in blue on the left was going to go for a swim. Love the shots. I would print them and put them in a multi image frame.

Nice work on these!

Great work on these. Just enough DOF and great expressions.

These look great!

The focus appears spot on. The expressions you captured are priceless. The action is superb.

The first thing I noticed, though, is that the colors pop!

Awesome. Print.

Thanks for sharing....and setting the bar very high for the rest of us.

Great shots

Wow! Thanks for all the awesome compliments and feedback! As sick as it sounds, I was hoping for more criticism =P

Loxley wrote in post #16514449
Wow! Thanks for all the awesome compliments and feedback! As sick as it sounds, I was hoping for more criticism =P

These absolutely suck! Okay, I don't mean that in the slightest. I wish you had been the photographer when my husband and I went white water rafting. You're shots are WAY better than the one's that I had to buy.

Loxley wrote in post #16514449
Wow! Thanks for all the awesome compliments and feedback! As sick as it sounds, I was hoping for more criticism =P

Ok maybe a bit more room on some of the photos to change up the compositions a bit? Slight more room in the direction the raft is moving in will give more of an impression of movement perhaps. IMO of course.