This is my first sports shoot with my new camera. I really enjoyed it, after the challenge I'd like to post up a few images and see what peoples views are.
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Place: 24 out of 631 Avg (all users): 6.2887 Avg (commenters): 7.4667 Avg (participants): 6.1436 Avg (non-participants): 6.5273 Views since voting: 1837 Views during voting: 386 Votes: 291 Comments: 21 Favorites: 0
I'm gonna be honest with you, there's nothing to critique. This is superb shot. You froze the action. The expressions are perfect. The background is thrown out of focus. The intensity is clearly shown. It meets the challenge.
The glare off the goal post is a slight distraction, but it's not like you can direct them to "scuffle" about 5 feet to the left :)
In my opinion, you got an excellent score, but it should have been higher. Fickly voters, I guess.
I'm no fan of this composition. Fror all the evident exertion, it holds little drama for me, the arms and shirts become confused to the left of frame, the tonality and processing don't differentiate the players from their background well enough.
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