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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · GU18 National Soccer Championship - NL vs QC | |
twragg wrote:
Any C&C's? My favorites from the lot are #7, #10 and #15 for action, atlhough the last one #17 I feel really shows the sting of defeat when the gold was plucked from their grasp in a shoot out. Would love to hear which ones stick out for other folks, or constructive tips on how to improve :-)
For those of us who aren't privileged enough to be Canadian identifying what NL and QC are would give us some context. I gather this is girls under 18 but don't know if it is club, school, town or whatever teams. Also, you couldn't control it, but a lot of the backgrounds are truly bad. Happens that way sometimes.
Biggest single critique - which I think would be echoed by others - is the need to crop tighter. With 17 pix I can't go thru each but consider #2 with no ref, #3 cropping way down so we don't see the empty stadium, #4 just the 2 players, same with #5. I have no clue how much experience you have shooting sports and while I do it professionally (for a very small town newspaper), I'm certainly no great expert. For sure you don't need all the context - the player, the action, the moment, the face. Learning to crop away enough of the opposing player to focus on the action is an art.
Also, if you shoot RAW I'd suggest bringing the light up. It was obviously a dark, dank day, but some exposure compensation, a bit more vibrance would really help.
#17 does have good emotion though as always it would have been nice to get more of her face. Again way to much area around her.
I pulled 17 down, did a quick crop, played with the curve a bit, did about 1/4 stop brighter and hit the vibrance a bit all in Lr. The pix is now - to my eye - a bit "hot," but it does suggest a direction you might consider. If modibying your work is offensive please let me know and I'll delete it.
You got some nice action. I think you could work on how to highlight the action in post.
Robert
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