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Anonymous
And more in the vein of "general critique," the composition is wanting. There is nothing in the frame but dirt and a centered player.
I've a feeling why, too. I've shot a great deal with the S3IS, and using its autofocus is generally not a good idea when taking shots that pass quickly, unless the subject is radically changing distance frequently.
The S3ISs autofocus takes too much time, so that one doesnt have time to compose the shot after one gets a changing subject, like the player, in focus using autofocus. Hence, centered composition in this photograph, like if one used the default autofocus point for the S3IS and then pressed the shutter.
Suggestion: bump your aperture up to at least f/5 or f/5.6, f/8 if it doesn't put too much of the photograph in focus and doesn't underexpose the photograph, and manually pre-focus the camera. Almost no shutter lag- none, for all practical purposes, so long as review is turned off- and no focusing lag. One of the advantages of point-and-shoots is that their smaller sensors mean that pre-focusing is easier and more practical in more situations than DSLRs and most film cameras, because the smaller the recording surface the more depth of field. (I don't know how their sensor sizes compare to APS and 110mm cameras.)
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