Marty,
I like the tight crops and your exposures look good. Either the light is great or your evenly bouncing. I much prefer the lower perspective of #1 and #2. That said you may need to stand at times if the kids stay all bunched up around the ball.
I'd love to see the lil one in #2 dribbling right at me.
Yeah man! There's a middle school here with decent light so I'm going to try to get some ambient stuff this Saturday. I'll try to remember to post some.
I like the little guys in baseball and basketball. Wrestling can be kinda hard to watch sometimes though. A lot of the youngest ones come in with the idea that they are going to play for fun and are a shocked when it gets rough and the parents are screaming for blood. I try to avoid them now.
We have 4 middle school games starting at 10 am tomorrow.
We can set you up with two strobes and transmitter/reciever with your own private channel. Or this is a new gym with good lights so you can try some ambient stuff.
Should be shooting until after 1 pm. If you can make it on such short notice shoot me an email for directions (or pm me here if you lost my email address)