High School Football shot

[Jim News]

This is the first photo I've ever put up for critique so I hope I did it right. It was one of around 250 I shot at the game, but for some reason, this one struck me. The data should be on the photo. I'd really like you opinions...It was shot with a backup D90 with a Sigma 70-200mm 2.8.

D90 (2) - Sigma 70-200 2.8, 28-70 2.8, Nikkor 50mm 1.4 and several others my wife doesn't know I've bought! (don't tell her!)

EXF
Nikon D90
1/250 (early in the game with decent light)
ISO 1600
shot as jpeg

[wamplers]

You need to straighten your horizon (I almost fell out of my chair from the incline ), otherwise I like the composition and action.

[Jim Bryant]

like this. If you use photoshop, you can take the crop tool and rotate it to straighten out the horizon out a bit so that I'm not falling out of my chair by have to lean over so far. Otherwise, I like how your eye is drawl to the running back from the action to the left of the picture.

[Jim News]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I got a little zippy with the tilt effect. Perhaps I'd just watched an old episode of Batman! Here's a level version.

[lputman]

Originally Posted by Jim News

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I got a little zippy with the tilt effect. Perhaps I'd just watched an old episode of Batman! Here's a level version.

Were you purposely tilting? I do that unintentionally , although I have gotten much better at keeping the horizon straight.

I like your non-tilt version much better.

[Jim News]

Actually, I was shooting up the sideline at the coach vertically, then turned back to the field and caught three shots of this play. In doing so, I actually shot the first two by pressing the side shutter release on the MB-80, resulting in the tilt. When I first saw the shot on my computer later, I thought it interesting, if only because it was 'different". After asking and receiving a few opinions and looking at the shot a couple of days later, the tilt has to go! You notice the tilt more than the picture. Remove the tilt and my eyes are much happier. This was an unpublished, not a keeper, a shot that I would generally throw away. By keeping it and letting other eyes see it and render a constructive opinion, a bad picture became a decent picture. A happy mistake, as it were... Thanks DPS!