some of my recent doings

[phatkid77]

since im working hard tonight, i will post some of my work...as some may be aware i just started taking photos in january... so im learning photoshop and DSLR at the same time.....fun fun









































so as you can see i shot a bit of everything....first time for all of it.. i have some hockey at home on my computer////

looky here...



http://digitaldesire.instaproofs.com...l=1&id=1379330
http://digitaldesire.instaproofs.com...l=1&id=1742321

comments welcome...

[Shortie]

great detail

but I think the watermark is a little OTT

[KABeach]

Your Football is very good, good timing, good action - some of them could use a tighter crop, but not too bad.

Your baseball really needs to be cropped tighter, and you have some framing issues. Watch your horizons - you can correct those when you crop them down. Action is pretty good, and you've got some good images there with a little bit of work - I would toss baseball/_DSC0039.jpg - the image is soft.

Your hockey has some really great timing - great exposure. Very nice looking shots - again, you need to crop those down a lot.

Some nice looking images here - with a bit of work, you can really make them sing!

Cheers,
Ken

[jfrancho]

It seems that watermarking for high school sports is pretty much a necessity. 9/10 of the time when you hear about a scraped image, it's some sporting event. I undderstand, and can look past them. On a few of these the WB looks a little off, and perhaps a few could use a bit of color correction with a curves adjustment. That's about all I can add to the critique, as was mentioned, timing looks great.

[cyclohexane]

Good stuff.

Ken's got you covered on advice. Softness is a no-no, shoot tight, crop tighter. Of course, nothing's absolute.

As for the horizons, well, as a fine arts shooter first, and a photojournalist second, I will tilt horizons if it gives me a deliberate effect, but it doesn't always work. Keep 'em as level as you can if you're not doing anything with it.

[phatkid77]

thanks guys.. yeah i could hockey tighter, but i was/am at work and found the links to the photos uncropped..... so thats all you get..lol... i have issues with horizons..... monopod on my wish list....thats gotta help something...

football... i shot maybe 4x thiis yr...
baseball, that was my first and only time
hockey... first time... we used flash tho.... that helped....LARGE

[cyclohexane]

What really doesn't help our horizons is the fact that just about every Nikon viewfinder slants to the right slightly, on certain examples of a particular camera it's more obvious than others, but it's always a slight slant to the right.

[phatkid77]

well thats good to know...well if it always has a right slant... if i always have 3 beers we can fix that right off the bat!! LOL