Low angle football action

I haven't been covering many football matches lately. I've been doing team shots for the North Star but this picture for the Ross-shire Journal was the first action shot in several weeks. I'd been trying another new idea using remote flashes but as the match drew to a close it was obvious that the idea wasn't working so I turned off the remotes and grabbed a few action shots.

If I'd been using my 300mm lens, which I usually use for football, then I would have been standing up and I probably wouldn't have got this shot at all. But I was using a 70-200mm lens so I took the shot from a low angle, and that's why it works. Would have been better if I'd taken it a split second earlier when the goalie's foot was touching the ball but it's not bad as it is.

18 June 2007: A late attack by Balintore's Lewis Ross is shut down by Tain Thistle goalkeeper Steven Martin.