Sunday's Motocross races

nipprdog

Spent Sunday at the local track. 14 classes, 28 motos. All with D300, 80-200, and SB 600
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chuckinsocal

Jim,

Those pics are beautiful! The colors are so vivid and the pans are so right on!

How do you do that?

Matt336

I would tone the sharpness down a bit. They look oversharpened.

2whlrcr

Matt336 wrote:

I would tone the sharpness down a bit. They look oversharpened.

Concur. I couldn't decide if it was sharpness or contrast too high, or both. I don't think they're far off. Overall, a nice series of photos.

I have a monitor that seems to mute the photos. When I turn the sharpness up on my camera to compensate, they look better on the monitor. But when I process a printed photo, you can tell they are over sharpened. So I live with a little dullness on the monitor, knowing the printed product will look nice.

nipprdog

chuckinsocal wrote:

Jim,

Those pics are beautiful! The colors are so vivid and the pans are so right on!

How do you do that?

Thanks, Chuck.

Something that helped with the colors on #1-11, was using flash.

As far as panning, I've been shooting MX, and panning, off and on, for about 30 years. I have a good keeper rate.

nipprdog

Originally Posted by Matt336
I would tone the sharpness down a bit. They look oversharpened.

2whlrcr wrote:

Concur. I couldn't decide if it was sharpness or contrast too high, or both. I don't think they're far off. Overall, a nice series of photos.

I have a monitor that seems to mute the photos. When I turn the sharpness up on my camera to compensate, they look better on the monitor. But when I process a printed photo, you can tell they are over sharpened. So I live with a little dullness on the monitor, knowing the printed product will look nice.

Help me out, guys. Which ones look oversharpned, and why. Are you seeing halos on them? I did little sharpening in PP. I've posted these in a couple forums, and these are the first comments about over sharpening.

Maybe my SM sharpening settings are too high.

As far as contrast, D300 was set at +1.

2whlrcr

nipprdog wrote:

Help me out, guys. Which ones look oversharpned, and why. Are you seeing halos on them? I did little sharpening in PP. I've posted these in a couple forums, and these are the first comments about over sharpening.

Maybe my SM sharpening settings are too high.

As far as contrast, D300 was set at +1.

First off, this is all very subjective, just like gymnastic judging.:D I think they are oversharpened just a bit. Just turn it down on a few shots and compare. I think it's one of those things where we try to get as much "pop" as possible, but go a little too far sometimes.

Plus everybodys eyes and monitors are different. I don't have a calibrated monitor. I have found what looks good on my monitor, may not look good in print. I use Smugmug services for my good prints and if camera settings are set to sharpen things up for my monitor, they will be oversharpened in print.

I have a 30D and use +1 sharpening setting and default settings on the rest. I do very little post prosscessing, except for some minor cropping. 500+ bike photos a session and the riders just have to take what comes out of the camera.