The all-purpose running photo/critique thread.

Adventurous goalie, far out of his crease ...

 

I really like the shot of the goalie with the ball.

Something I've noticed in your pictures, overall, is that you don't hold the camera level. A lot of your horizons are wonky.

 

I have that same problem in some of my photos. It's just one of those things you have to consciously think about, in addition to lightling/focus/framing...man, this is hard stuff to do.

 

UT, thanks. It's not that the shots are wonky (they are), it's the way I'm seated (sometimes I sit on the ground) and shoot diagonally, so that makes the shots look how they do. I'm pretty sure I hold the camera level, but the magic is in the angles

On the shot of the 2 girls fighting for a scoop ball, action came at me quickly, so I had to backup and snap at the same time. So in an instance like that I can understand the wonkiness. Sometimes I don't hold the camera straight on purpose, such as this one from last night as the team celebrated the lacrosse program's 1st state title ...

 

Xan, just out of curiosity, are you still shooting film or are some of these old photos? They look too grainy to be digital.

 

Digital. I take the mask off. Some of the shots are taken in extremely dark situations, too. I have an aging Nikon D-100 on which I've taken half-a-million photos (that's being conservative). I don't have a world-class lens, so the farther the action the grainier it gets when I crop and take the mask off in Photoshop.