More High School Playoff Football

So, taking the advice from my previous football post, I tried more shooting directly towards the sun to backlight the players. However, I'm thinking this was more harm than good because of the shape of the lens hood on my Sigma lens. I shoot about 98% portrait orientation with football, and when in that orientation the lens hood doesn't stick out as far. I think this allowed some significant flaring to occur on the lower portions of my photos.

1.Back-lit; Glare in lower-right corner. This was later in the game.

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I forgot to add that more can be seen here!

exposure in 4,5,7 is smack on. Love your water "stamp" mark. #5 is a parents's dream. Poster shot!

Thanks Vinny! I was really worried because they look much brighter on the laptop I'm using right now instead of my desktop where I edited last night....at 1AM, with dry, tired eyes. I actually forgot to go back & straighten some of them before throwing them on my website.. Ooops!

I think the backlit stuff turned out fine. Just bump the contrast a bit and it should fix most of your problems.

Big K wrote in post #8977172
I think the backlit stuff turned out fine. Just bump the contrast a bit and it should fix most of your problems.

Thanks, Kevin.