Claire Huggins by mark103

Might have had a bit more impact if you'd shot from a lower angle and zoomed in further. Your horizon could do with levelling too. Caught the moment well though.

Chatsworth Horse Trials by EOS_fan

The movement blur is distracting for me. It's a pity you didn't shoot at f4 and freeze the action. Otherwise a nice image.

On it's way by AndysShots

Shutter speed priority - fail. Sorry.

Get set... by arhb

An entirely daft and inappropriate comment but this image loses impact for me simply because she's not very well set-up when it comes to starting a race, e.g. feet in a line instead of separated by a few inches, hands not in a consistent position and one encroaching on a line, etc. It's the pedant in me; one who knows very little about athletics, but still one who finds such issues a distraction if they're wrong. Sorry. I know she's a model not an athlete but I think a little research into how she might have lined up to look more like an athlete could have shut me up for good.

american football by iannidan

Why were you at 210mm and f6.3?

French Dressage by Zydeco_Joe

Looks way too fake to be effective, to me. Sorry.

Baseball Ballet: Shadows 18 by taggart

Not a 'keeper' for me, sorry - his face is very soft.

Last Ditch Tackle by Philo

"Not cloning out things" = winner.

Hands Off by AdrianTurner

Nice capture but the horizon could do with levelling. I would ask why you were shooting at f5.6 when you had f4 available but that would be very predictable of me, so I won't.

Free Kick by tanglefoot

Sorry but it's the crowd that is in focus so, as a 'free kick, going for goal' photo it really doesn't work. Maybe 'all eyes on the action', at a pinch.

Evading The Tackle by Philo

Someone cloned out the goalposts?! Whatever next... photoshopping a giraffe IN? And there I was thinking this was a photo from a football game.

Header by Philo

Gloves and tights - whatever happened to the beautiful game?!

The Charge Down by lespes

Nice shot but I'm not convinced by the vignetting, sorry.

Clear It by Philo

I find the contrast too heavy in the 'mod'. Just an opinion.

I'd recommend shooting in manual settings if you can. While aperture priority is great, a team in black against a team in white will always confuse your sensor. Light meters aren't cheap, I know, and with the British weather, your settings will vary wildly as cloud cover changes but if you practice it gets easier.

I'd always shoot wide open too, for better depth of field shallowness. Once you get your AF settings sorted to your liking, you may find a lot less need for dropping your aperture to compensate for focusing inefficiencies.

Support Play? by Philo

Cloning sports images. No. Absolutely not. That's it.