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11/15/2005 09:19:21 AM |
Hello from the Critique Club!
I have studied your image and have the following to offer:
Composition/perspective - For a sports shot - taken at the moment - overall, this is not bad. Your subject(s) are clear and in focus. Your timing was good as you appear to have caught the main subject at the height of his jump. The fence in the background is a major distraction and appears to cut your subject off at the neck. Also, below the knees is cut off. You didn't list the lense you used, so hard to tell, but if you were not zoomed/positioned so close you could have made the same capture and then cropped to get the final result. This would have shown more 'action.'
Color - you listed 'partial desat' as one of your processing steps. I think this leaves the background a little flat instead of letting your foreground stand out. The colors of the subjects are strong enough to offer a nice contrast to the browns/greens of the background.
Lighting - very nice control of natural light. The jersey is not blown out at all although in direct sunlight. The skin tones look natural and not washed out or ghostly at all. The shadow on the second jumper makes him a little dark, but this is not a distraction.
Challenge requirements - without following a few sure bets, shutter speed is not necessarily a key element in an image. Your timing of capture - getting the jumper at his highest, also captures the hair in the movement which really gives the strongest element of action in this shot. It is this action that relays your shutter speed aspect. Well done.
Overall/my opinion - a different crop or zoom to allow more of the subject would have been a stronger image. Different location on the field to get better control over the background would have also helped with this image. Nice capture that demonstrates an eye for the shot and good timing. |
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11/07/2005 06:34:12 PM |
| Another great action shot, love the facial expression. |
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11/06/2005 10:04:07 AM |
As a sport photog myself there are mainly two problems with this pix.
The fence line cuttimg your athlete at the neck, and the decapitation at the knees. You would never be able o sell this to a publisher.
Color good, lighting good, nice capture, Dof good, emotion good, B&W good. Nice idea. Overall just OK. |
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11/04/2005 10:57:10 AM |
| nice sports capture - will not say that was using your head - okay, so I did say it, sorry |
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11/04/2005 01:50:48 AM |
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