HS Soccer

My first attempt at shooting a HS soccer game - any comments/suggestions? I was pleased for my first effort, but I know I can improve.

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not bad for a first attempt, your exposure is off on the first pic the 2nd looks spot on. in the first try to clone out the corner flag and the other goal laying down in the background. watch your horizons, the pics looks like the field has a pretty steep slope because your horizons off. watch the crop on the 2nd picture as well you cut off part of the ball.

Try to get some action shots too of the players going into a tackle or fighting over the ball in some way. take a look at some of my recent posts here and in the critique corner section and youll understand what i mean

the first picture looks like you were probably standing, trying shooting from a lower perspective to make the players look bigger, the 2nd looks pretty good

Good 1st attempt. Try shooting from the other side of the field, with the sun to your back. I think you'll like the result much better.

(My Stepmom is from SE Wisc.)

shooting into the sun can yield some fine results with rim lighting but it is more difficult to nail exposure and not blow anything out that way

Thanks for the tips, I'm attaching some action shots, I can only do 2 attachments at a time. And Vlad, as much as I'd like to say chopping off the ball was a cropping error, it was my lens' fault - honest! Yes, I must claim operator error on that one.

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it happens to the best of us lol, i tend to cut off feet lol. the first ones not bad but soccer is one of the sports where its considered essential to have the ball in the frame. so watch your crop on the first picture. the 2nd is too busy to really get much outa the picture, dont sweat your keeper rates if take 200 pictures in a game i useually only have about 30-40 that are keepers, and many times they are of the same player during a run so you get 3-4 keepers from bursting. Soccer has probly one of the lowest keeper rates when it comes to sports photography, your off to a good start though keep it up