Thanx, Evelyn.
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Nice shot on upton but seems a bit odd in the portrait layout. I would try cropping it to landscape and clone out crawford. Nice timing though.
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Pinball, I thought about the crop and clone on this one and I think I could have done a pretty good job on the cloning.
I kind of got hung up on the technical aspects of the photograph. I left "Crawford" in the picture as an attempt to introduce some foreground entry. I left the clay warning track in the top of the picture to try to add some depth.
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...i find I never can catch anything in flight.
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Don't be too hard on yourself. The guy in this picture couldn't catch anything in flight either.
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ISO and sports pictures are a bit of a conundrum. Cranking up the ISO is necessary even in good lighting (though 400 is certainly more manageable than 1600), but if a shot is good, things like noise tend to be ignored more than they would be in an ordinary shot. There's an inherent drama and action in sports that allows the photographer to let some of the technical stuff slide. Shutter speed and focus become more important than the other stuff.
Case in point: I sold this image to one of my professors last semester (a color version) and he called it "the best sports shot in Columbus this year." I'm not sure I would go so far as to call it the best but I certainly like it too. Technically it isn't even a very good shot though, the noise is atrocious, but the content overcomes that.
That's probably way more text than anyone wants to read. Basically, what I'm saying is not to worry about the ISO and just go for shots that punch with content. The picture you posted exemplifies good sports photography.
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Good thoughts, I appreciate your comments. It is difficult to be technically correct while trying to catch "the action" on the field of play.
Very nice catch on your basketball shot as well.