U-13 Soccer C&C Wanted

Some photos from a tournament a week ago. Shot with a 1d classic, Sigma 100-300 f/4

Shot on manual, processed in LR and OnOne software suite.

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looks good 2 me

Take the CC with realizing that I'm viewing web images, so you may see them differently then I do.

1. Seems to me to be the best as far as colors and white balance goes. It could be cropped a little tighter IMO.

2. Action looks good as well as the colors. The only nit pick is you cut off the players feet.

3. Action is good but it appears to be a heavy crop and the colors are flat.

4. The white balance seems to be a little warm and it could use some contrast and saturation added to it.

5. This one also appears to be on the warm side with too much contrast or clarity added. I like the action.

6. It could be the web size but it appears to be a little soft.

Hope this helps. Keep shooting and posting!

tmalone893 wrote in post #17148306
Take the CC with realizing that I'm viewing web images, so you may see them differently then I do.

1. Seems to me to be the best as far as colors and white balance goes. It could be cropped a little tighter IMO.

2. Action looks good as well as the colors. The only nit pick is you cut off the players feet.

3. Action is good but it appears to be a heavy crop and the colors are flat.

4. The white balance seems to be a little warm and it could use some contrast and saturation added to it.

5. This one also appears to be on the warm side with too much contrast or clarity added. I like the action.

6. It could be the web size but it appears to be a little soft.

Hope this helps. Keep shooting and posting!

Thank you for the feedback. Greatly appreciated!

IMO, they appear to be over-processed, or maybe as a result of over-compressed. eg: over-sharpens(halo effect) and over-contrast. I don't know if you have other shots that are differ, but try not to overshoot too much tight shot. While yes, we shoot sport mostly with telephoto, but you may want to include some wider angle shots also. Not all sport picture have to be action pictures also. Capture the expression of the player after he shot a goal or missed a goal sometime is better than the shot of making the goal itself. Don't we all see this type of shot all the time in tennis? While today dSLR are generally done a good job at AWB, but if you know you are going to shoot in a good lighting day on the outdoor open field, just turn that AWB over to daylight and it's just one less thing you have to worry about in post-process, because the WB would already be consistent.

One suggestion re: wb Shoot test shots during the day of the grass to use a a reference point for WB in post processing or bring a gray card and shoot it. Makes the PP wb much easier.

Nice action captures