I'm going to add another layer for sports shots that I have been working on. The action is one thing but you also have to capture the emotions of the sport. The high fives, the tears and everything that goes with it. I few weeks back I added this new layer and it has been challenging.
This season I shot for the parents so I can learn to improve my technique, which I have, at least I think. I uploaded around 2000 pictures of the team in 46 baseball games. Sounds like a lot but I tried to keep it around a hundred or slightly more per game/tournament to not overload everyone.
Another thing, if you shoot for the parents dont expect all of them to ooh and awe, out of 11 kids I had 5 parents that would say something each time. The others never commented, no matter how hard I tried to get a special shot. This itself became a challenge.
Here is one of my son I got from the last tournament. I honestly love the challenge and have learned more about exposure and composistion then I would have by taking a couple here and there of various things. Even made the jump to full manual this season which I am very proud of.
And here is one more from the same tournament.