High School LAX

Hi all,

Just posting some photos....

Quality downgraded so that it wouldn't take an hour to upload!

Nice shots!

I shot Boys LAX this weekend and man it's a tough sport to shoot.

You have some great shots. The last one looks like a poster made in photoshop. That must have been tuff shooting the sport at night.

I'm not sure if you're looking for critique, but I hope you don't mind if I add my .02 =)

Framing: There are a couple instances of chopped off body parts (ex. the helmet in #1 and foot in #3). If you were using the 300mm in your sig it might have been unavoidable, but I think if you shot portrait orientation instead of landscape, you'd get more keepers. I think portrait orientation really just works better for isolating individuals in sports. People are taller than they are wide, so landscape orientation can chop off a lot of a player's body, and add only empty space next to them. (Some of your shots really work well in landscape though, like #2 and #4)

My only other gripe would be the somewhat inconsistent exposure, but it looks like you were shooting through sunset into dusk, so I bet that was pretty difficult to control.

Focus and action look really good though. I hope you don't mind the critique on framing. I just think shooting more vertical orientation would really improve this set!

TopGear1Ds wrote in post #5508045
I'm not sure if you're looking for critique, but I hope you don't mind if I add my .02 =)

Framing: There are a couple instances of chopped off body parts (ex. the helmet in #1 and foot in #3). If you were using the 300mm in your sig it might have been unavoidable, but I think if you shot portrait orientation instead of landscape, you'd get more keepers. I think portrait orientation really just works better for isolating individuals in sports. People are taller than they are wide, so landscape orientation can chop off a lot of a player's body, and add only empty space next to them. (Some of your shots really work well in landscape though, like #2 and #4)

My only other gripe would be the somewhat inconsistent exposure, but it looks like you were shooting through sunset into dusk, so I bet that was pretty difficult to control.

Focus and action look really good though. I hope you don't mind the critique on framing. I just think shooting more vertical orientation would really improve this set!

Well aware of the framing, is kinda hard with a prime.

I started shooting against the sun about halfway through the game. It's really hard to expose for, but when the sunset starts lighting up the field, it looks very nice.

And na, the last shot isn't a poster. Yet.

HuskiesD1 wrote in post #5508233
Well aware of the framing, is kinda hard with a prime.

Thats what I'm saying though.. I think most of your framing problems aren't the primes fault, but rather that you're shooting a vertical subject with the camera horizontal. Put that extra shutter button on your MkII to good use

TopGear1Ds wrote in post #5508258
Thats what I'm saying though.. I think most of your framing problems aren't the primes fault, but rather that you're shooting a vertical subject with the camera horizontal. Put that extra shutter button on your MkII to good use

The only problem I have with that button is that its extra sensitive. WAY too sensitive, and I can't change that.

What a strange problem =/.. I guess it really was unavoidable then.

Have you thought about getting that serviced? I would go nuts if I couldn't shoot portrait orientation for sports (multiply that by a factor of 10 if it was a 1D series that wasn't working properly)

TopGear1Ds wrote in post #5508356
What a strange problem =/.. I guess it really was unavoidable then.

Have you thought about getting that serviced? I would go nuts if I couldn't shoot portrait orientation for sports (multiply that by a factor of 10 if it was a 1D series that wasn't working properly)

It's working properly. I've heard other complaints that the button is too sensitive. Just have to learn to use a lighter touch

I am going to a couple D1 college games this weekend in Annapolis(UVA-MD and Navy-Johns Hopkins) and am hoping to get some good shots. :fingers crossed: but yes, it can be a tough game to shoot if you can't see the play developing.

Nice shots, I played in HS but we never used yellow balls new rule?

1 has a terrible head cropping. 3 has a head and foot cropping. The rule it to crop between joints (mid thigh, tummy, mid rib cage, maybe mid calf but that usually doesn't work).

Everything else looks good.

ijohnson wrote in post #5523940
1 has a terrible head cropping. 3 has a head and foot cropping. The rule it to crop between joints (mid thigh, tummy, mid rib cage, maybe mid calf but that usually doesn't work).

Everything else looks good.

Not so much cropping, but the way they were shot. Learning to use primes with field sports

HuskiesD1 wrote in post #5526004
Not so much cropping, but the way they were shot. Learning to use primes with field sports

OK, framing then. My point is that the others look just fine but the awkward "framing" takes away from the images mentioned.