Kevin: welcome to the forum, I hope you read my reply. I see you are shooting with a 70-200mm lens nothing wrong with that or your camera.
When you shoot with a 70-200mm you have to be more patient. You have to let the action come closer to you. In the long run, you may get fewer \"keepers\" but they will be better quality.
When you shot any sporting activity, you want to see peak action, facial expressions and most of the time the ball. You don\'t want to see extraneous bodies which detract from the action. Even the best of the best photographers will get an excellent capture that cropping can\'t help because of an extraneous body, limb or other artifact. In that case delete....................
When you shooting action in low/artificial light as Bill mentioned you have to have faster ss than you used.
Cropping was mentioned but I don\'t think tighter crops would have helped this series because you were to far away from the action.
I see a redo/crop on your last image was posted. It is an improvement from the original image but in reality is not a keeper because there are still extraneous players in the redo and with the tighter crop, your now have an image lacking in sharpness.
It was mentioned using a longer lens. That can certainly help. I want to stress the patience aspect of shooting because you could be shooting with a longer lens and if you lack in patience your subject matter could still be too far away.
I do not know how much experience you have shooting \"sports\" or your financial ability to purchase a lens that costs 6-10 grand, my recommendation, master what you have and be patient. Learn from the suggestions given here, you will grow.
Ted
Aug 17, 2012 at 02:36 PM
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