Cricket C&C

Tried sports photography again today at a cricket match. It was difficult as there was bright sun, white clothes and everyone seemed to be wearing a hat! Full set is here

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As usual, all C&C welcome and appreciated!

NORTH1

Great set, Really like 3 and 4.

Cheers - getting correct exposure today was a right pain.

Anyone have any good tips? Camera was on Tv, with 1/3 or 2/3 overexposure for most shots. 1/1600 t0 1/2000 for most shots.

Funny shot from the warm up:

dinneenp

I'd like to see some more space in the photo- they're all very close up. The photo of guy catching the ball could be better with rule of thirds maybe- some open green space to where he's jumping....

AnimalRights

I agree, they're cropped far too tightly.
#4 especially could benefit from more space and to me that is the best shot.
Where did you photograph this..in the PP?
I went to Clontarf and photographed Clontarf vs Leinster last Saturday, I was quite rusty and just couldn't capture what I wanted.
Hopefully for the 2nd time I will be more patient and aware.

http://pix.ie/punkrock/album/345770

AnimalRights

AnimalRights wrote: »

I agree, they're cropped far too tightly.
#4 especially could benefit from more space and to me that is the best shot.
Where did you photograph this..in the PP?
I went to Clontarf and photographed Clontarf vs Leinster last Saturday, I was quite rusty and just couldn't capture what I wanted.
Hopefully for the 2nd time I will be more patient and aware.

http://pix.ie/punkrock/album/345770

pp? I was sitting on the boundary, just behind and the to the left of the wicket.

It struck me afterwards that I had overdone the cropping. The teams liked them though and I've been asked back to the next few matches.

Dodgykeeper

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pp? I was sitting on the boundary, just behind and the to the left of the wicket.

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PP in this instance means Phoenix Park, and just behind and to the left could be described as fine leg! (I think!)

Nice set, dont think they are too tightly cropped!

What club is it?

It was the Warwick Med School versus some composite Warwick Team.

AnCatDubh

I know little about Cricket and little about sports photography so the following comments have to be taken in that light.

I think #3 is a mighty image altogether and love your catching of the action here. Also the expression of #2 is wonderful.

It looks like a very bright day and I think this is challenging - while it allows fast shutter speeds it seems to have left you with a little over exposure/burn in places which could be difficult to resolve if you were to attempt to darken.

As a set the crops appear uneven if that makes sense so they don't fit nicely in a sequence (sorry - that is nit picking).

Overall the cropping is too tight to me but that just my personal perspective. I've heard it on here before about sports shots and the propensity to crop tightly. I did often wonder is that a print thing (newspaper,etc.) where space is naturally restricted in which case you try to isolate the subject as much as possible. But there you have it - i dunno

As an aside, my preconceived notion about Cricket was that it must be the most boring sport in the world to watch with breaks for afternoon tea, cream cakes on the green, the reverend minister in attendance, blah de blah, BUT I tuned in (by accident) last night to UK V West Indies (i think) and was blown away by it - incredibly exciting stuff. I had no idea what was going on it it and I don't know was it just really well edited stuff or what but OMG, it was so engaging. That's what my preconceived notions get me - FAIL

Had you liberty to move around or were these taken from a seating area?

I had the full roam of the boundary, but since the sun was so strong I just sat pretty much under it so that I could try and deal with the exposure where the shadows were pointing away from me.

I'm new to the game as well and tbh, I wasn't sure what shots I should have been going for! I'll get to do this a few times again over the summer so hopefully the shots will improve but I am kind of hampered by my little sigma 18:200, anyone fancy sending me over a 70:300 f<3??

The crops were tight as there was a lot of crap in the background which was distracting. It was also white which was causing hassle, but in retrospect, thats just bad composition on my part.

Comment from my girlfriend when she saw the set thumbnails:

Why did you spend the day taking pictures of men's crotches?

kgpixels

good set. you really captured the ation