Soccer Theory

leebaseleebase Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
edited May 18, 2005 in Sports
Soccer Theory

This week I shot mostly in TV mode at 1/250 and 1/320 with the goal (no pun intended) of getting some blur on the ball. I achieved this, but it appears to me to be at the expense of softer photos over all.

I've become addicted to shooting in RAW. After resisting it for so long due to size and post processing time, I now find that I just can't live without it. Even shooting soccer -- the 20D more than keeps up when shooting raw. And with Raw Shooter, I'm spending LESS time post processing than I did with jpg, and I'm getting better results.

Culling -- I'm getting down to shooting 100 or so photos a game, and culling them down to 25 or so photos. Many more than that would normally be "keepers" -- except that there's just no reason to have so many photos when I'm shooting their games every week.

Cropping -- and I've settled quite comfortably into editing the story of each photo by cropping. If I had only the choice of sharpening or cropping -- I think I'd choose cropping as THE essential step in bringing out the best in my soccer photos.

4th Grade: http://leebase.smugmug.com/gallery/536421
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2nd Grade: http://leebase.smugmug.com/gallery/536027
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1st Grade: http://leebase.smugmug.com/gallery/534094
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Lee

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  • windozewindoze Registered Users Posts: 2,830 Major grins
    edited May 17, 2005
    nice work Lee,
    your posts are always informative!!! thanx!


    troy
    leebase wrote:
    Soccer Theory

    This week I shot mostly in TV mode at 1/250 and 1/320 with the goal (no pun intended) of getting some blur on the ball. I achieved this, but it appears to me to be at the expense of softer photos over all.

    I've become addicted to shooting in RAW. After resisting it for so long due to size and post processing time, I now find that I just can't live without it. Even shooting soccer -- the 20D more than keeps up when shooting raw. And with Raw Shooter, I'm spending LESS time post processing than I did with jpg, and I'm getting better results.

    Culling -- I'm getting down to shooting 100 or so photos a game, and culling them down to 25 or so photos. Many more than that would normally be "keepers" -- except that there's just no reason to have so many photos when I'm shooting their games every week.

    Cropping -- and I've settled quite comfortably into editing the story of each photo by cropping. If I had only the choice of sharpening or cropping -- I think I'd choose cropping as THE essential step in bringing out the best in my soccer photos.


    Lee
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 17, 2005
    That first one's a peach! As for cropping, I agree completely. A narrow depth of field also helps a ton.

    Why limit the number of shots you shoot? Simply for convenience?
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  • BodleyBodley Registered Users Posts: 766 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2005
    leebase wrote:
    Soccer Theory

    And with Raw Shooter, I'm spending LESS time post processing than I did with jpg, and I'm getting better results.
    Lee
    What is raw shooter? How is it different that processing in photoshop?

    Faster than JPEG? headscratch.gif

    Greg
    Greg
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  • leebaseleebase Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Why limit the number of shots you shoot? Simply for convenience?
    No reason. I wouldn't say I'm "limiting" my shots, I'm just shooting less. Considering that I used to rattle off 400 or so shots a game (times 3 games) and now I'm only rattling off 100 -- I'm still shooting 300 per Sat.

    I don't shoot as many shots of other kids as I used to. The parents don't buy the picts -- so why should I take life off of my shutter?

    Also, when I know I've shot a certain kid, in a certain type of "pose" -- I no longer continue shooting them every time.

    :)

    Lee
  • leebaseleebase Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2005
    Bodley wrote:
    What is raw shooter? How is it different that processing in photoshop?

    Faster than JPEG? headscratch.gif
    http://www.pixmantec.com

    It's RAW conversion software -- who's workflow I like better than Photoshop's.

    And yes, I spend less time tweaking my RAW photos in RSE than I did adjusting my jpg's in photoshop.

    Lee
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