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by **kiwi** on Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:29 pm

I haven't posted here for awhile, but, have been keeping an eye on all the nice shots

So, rather than loiter on the sidelines, thought i should jump in with some pics for a change. C&C welcome

These were from the final of the Brisbane Div2 league last weekend.

All shot with D300, Nikon 300 f/2.8 with 1.4TC

Thanks for looking.

by **barry** on Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:10 pm

Nice shots there Darren. You certainly have that 300 working well.

by **pucara** on Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:54 pm

very good picture I love all, good work... :lol:

....Carlos..

by **kiwi** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:14 am

Thanks for the comments. The 300 is certainly one fine piece of glass.

by **gstark** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:03 am

You've captured some great action there, but a couple of these images seem to be guilty of oversharpening themselves.

There is a fair bit of haloing evident, particularly in the first and second, but also in the others. In the first, look around the exposed area of the gentleman-in-orange's thigh: this whole area is surrounded by haloing at those edges. The same person's left forearm and hand and fingers ...the underside of the other gentleman's right forearm, and the front section of his shirt. In the second, the line that follows this person's right shoulder and down to his upper right arm, the leading edge of his left thigh, and the exposed area of his back.

You might like to have your images review their PP techniques.

by **biggerry** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:15 am

probably just a a trick of the image, but that dudes leg in # 3 (white sock) looks wrong!

you have captured some really nice images from that match, clearly more than the just good gear, good timing etc....

by **kiwi** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:24 am

Thanks Gary, you have a good eye that I appreciate the benefit of here.

I'll wind back the sharpening a tad - I have just started using LR/Mogrify plug-in for Lightroom (it's very good by the way) and it's taking some getting used to as far as the USM settings are concerned during batch processing.

Re the tackle - I believe that the ankle was broken in this one.

by **biggerry** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:27 am

Re the tackle - I believe that the ankle was broken in this one.

with the facial expression like that I guess he does not know yet :shock:

by **sirhc55** on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:56 am

Ageeing with Gary on the sharpening but apart from that, an excellent series of FOOTBALL shots. . .

Football is the paramount game played the world over with a round ball and was originally codified in 1863 and defined as Association Football and the word soccer is believed to be a bastardisation of the word Association.

God only knows how Australia can name a game as footy when most of the time the ball is in the hands of the players