DOF error, and easy fix?

JamesJWeg

Ok, I made a big oops, I went to shoot a soccer game and forgot to go over to my AP settings for soccer on the cam. ( I also forgot to take it off spot metering, ever spot meter on a white jersey? :wxwax most photo'a are .5 - 1 stop dark, but I shot in RAW so that is a easy fix) Take a look at these photo's

http://pics.jamesjweg.com/gallery/507805

I took over 700 at that game, all in RAW, and most of them have way too much DOF, is there a easy way to fix this?

James.

lynnma

JamesJWeg wrote:

Ok, I made a big oops, I went to shoot a soccer game and forgot to go over to my AP settings for soccer on the cam. ( I also forgot to take it off spot metering, ever spot meter on a white jersey? most photo'a are .5 - 1 stop dark, but I shot in RAW so that is a easy fix) Take a look at these photo's

http://pics.jamesjweg.com/gallery/507805

I took over 700 at that game, all in RAW, and most of them have way too much DOF, is there a easy way to fix this?

James.

Hi James, a lot of the mods are away in Yosemite but you should be getting some help soon from some experts.. I don't see much wrong with these shots but I'm no sports photographer... they look good to me

cletus

JamesJWeg wrote:

I took over 700 at that game, all in RAW, and most of them have way too much DOF, is there a easy way to fix this?

James.

I'll have to think on this one. Off the top of my head, I'd say there isn't an easy fix. I don't know of anything you could do to batch process them to decrease DOF. The only thing I can think of would be to work with each image by hand. With over 700 images, you'd be looking at weeks of work.

ginger_55

If they look good to Lynn, et al, they will look good to everyone but you, too.

g

JamesJWeg

Thanks, maybe I am just being too picky.

James.

ubergeek

Lens Blur
Photoshop has a "Lens Blur" feature; you could probably also get away with using a Gaussian blur. However, in either case, you'd have to at least mask off the subject--doing this for one photo is one thing, but doing it for hundreds is quite another!

Some of the shots would have benefited from a shallower depth of field (something to chalk up to experience and try for next time), but many of them work as is.

Cheers,
Jeremy