Girls LAX Shot

[Beckerbulldog]

Is the crop on the left ok or should I crop out #30? I like her in there because she gives a sense of urgency to the picture.

Sony A900, iso 800, f3.2, 1/1000, 200mm

[Tzetsin]

I cant personally see anything that could be gained by cropping. The picture looks good as it is.

[subsonic]

That's two threads now where I think I'm going to see something taken at the LA Airport!

I guess I need to learn the short name for Lacrosse...

Anyway, I would experiment with cropping the image so the left edge is just to the left of player # 30.

The scoreboard numbers in the background do add something, but you'd be grouped on fewer elements if you cropped a bit, which might make a stronger image.

[justin_ing]

I would drop the exposure or the brightness a bit since its probably 1 stop too much. Keep 30 though. She makes this image whole. I would crop the goalie and the goal a bit more

[Beckerbulldog]

justin...hows this look?

[justin_ing]

Brilliant! That crop looks a lot better. I like it

If you can, see if you can use the gradient tool on the sky to drop it down another stop... if you squint looking at the photo, the sky is just a little too bright.