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Hi all

With a few other sports shots being posted of late I thought I would share one from my first sports outing with the D70. It was taken at a under 14's football match in country Victoria.



I spent most of the weekend wishing I had just a little more reach with my lens. As you can see the drought has taken its toll on the football ground with hardly a green blade of grass to be seen.

The young bloke in the middle is a family member, I don't think he kept his eye on the ball in this shot.

All comments welcome.

Great shot Paul. Which lens did u shoot this with? Kit? Did you do any PP sharpening? I know he's kinda crouching in this shot, but is he a LOT smaller anyway than the other players? Has he seen the shot? I bet he likes it!?!

The shot is sharp with good color and contrast, Paul. Nice stop action.

Paul - this is a superb shot - good action, focus and colour. The little fella with the giants is classic

Thanks for the comments guys.

It was shot with a 70-300 ED at F5.6 and 1/1250, it has had the saturation tweaked and a little bit of sharpening in PS. His mum and dad were quite happy when I gave them an A4 version of the shot.

In the under 14s you get quite a wide spread of ages playing, I believe he was one of the youngest and smallest on the team but it doesn't seem to stop him from getting in there.

Very well taken. great timing to get the ball and the little laddy together like that.