Would Love Some Feedback On my Sports Photography

Ryan L · Jan 20, 2012

If you are using the 50mm for it's speed, don't be afraid to try other lenses and up your ISO to 1600. Unless your printing large photos you can easily get decently clean shots. Just make sure your exposure is correct.

DiskoJoe · Jan 20, 2012

lose the vignette

CalebFarley · Jan 21, 2012

How are these photos I did not do much pp on them and they have no vignetting at all

If you move fast enough, you won't get hit! by Caleb Farley, on Flickr

Right Hook! by Caleb Farley, on Flickr

Nation Champion Ugur Eyili! by Caleb Farley, on Flickr

When shooting the second image I had my shutter speed to low , lightweights are just so fast lol

Not the same emotions thought, will be going to the regonials soon and won't be fighting so I will be sure to shoot some more their, nationals as well. If I had more time I would like to try other sports... But I am training 18 hours of the week...

Ediacol · Jan 21, 2012

MUCH better without the vignette! I personally hate it and with all the editing I have done I can't say I've ever used it. Good action shots!

pitchblack · Jan 21, 2012

Nice work. Overall, I really think you really need to shoot with the lens wider open. The pictures are a little busy-looking and there's a lot going on in the scenes. Better blurring of the backgrounds will help the viewer focus on the subject.

cbrown222 · Jan 21, 2012

The only issues to me are the overuse of vignetting and the busy backgrounds as well. You seem to capture the action very well

CalebFarley · Jan 21, 2012

Ediacol said:
MUCH better without the vignette! I personally hate it and with all the editing I have done I can't say I've ever used it. Good action shots!

Thank you very much, I like some of the edited pictures but sometimes it is not called for like in the images above. For some reason I LOVE very contrasty action shots

CalebFarley · Jan 21, 2012

pitchblack said:
Nice work. Overall, I really think you really need to shoot with the lens wider open. The pictures are a little busy-looking and there's a lot going on in the scenes. Better blurring of the backgrounds will help the viewer focus on the subject.

I personally like a lot of things going on in a photo but only a certain amount, some of my images have TOO MUCH going on and I know it, most of the images were shot between f/2.0 - f/2.8 when my lens can go down to f/1.4 but than the image is really soft and I like sharp images. The ring ones were shot with my 55-250 which fully extended is f/5.6 but when shooting it's usually around f/6-8. You do get a decent amount of DOP but it's not mt favorite... I want to get a canon 70-200 f/2.8 but I am only 15 and all my money goes to going to tournaments etc.