HS Hoops Invitational

OldGuy

Boys and Girls holiday tournament in Kalamazoo, MI. I decided to push my ISO comfort level and shot these at 1600 & 3200, 70-200 AFSVR f2.8 @ 1/320-1/500 on my D300, auto WB. PP in PSCS3, levels, NoiseNinja and USM. C&C welcome.

Regards,
John

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johng

You've caught some nice action here. But there is way too much noise reduction here - resulting in the plastic look. If you still have the original photos try processing again with less agressive noise reduction. At 3200, if properly exposed you shouldn't need a lot of noise reduction. But the key to that is proper exposure. At 2.8 I would be amazed if you could shoot at 1600 and get properly exposed shots at 1/400 - 1/500. That's a full stop better than most HS gyms I shoot in.

Correct that issue and I think you'll have some very nice shots here

OldGuy

johng wrote:

You've caught some nice action here. But there is way too much noise reduction here - resulting in the plastic look. If you still have the original photos try processing again with less agressive noise reduction. At 3200, if properly exposed you shouldn't need a lot of noise reduction. But the key to that is proper exposure. At 2.8 I would be amazed if you could shoot at 1600 and get properly exposed shots at 1/400 - 1/500. That's a full stop better than most HS gyms I shoot in.

Correct that issue and I think you'll have some very nice shots here

Thanks John. Good points. I am still not comfortable shooting over 1600 and I admit I was more focused on not over sharpening than the noise reduction. I always save the original, so I will reprocess and see what happens. Thanks again.

John

Anderson-Photography

OldGuy wrote:

Thanks John. Good points. I am still not comfortable shooting over 1600 and I admit I was more focused on not over sharpening than the noise reduction. I always save the original, so I will reprocess and see what happens. Thanks again.

John

I agree with John. Too much post processing with the noise reduction. A little noise isn't going to ruin your photos but I'm also speaking a newspaper sports shooter where a little noise isn't going to be an issue.
If you're shooting to sell prints have you thought about alower ISO to reduce noise but then using strobes?

OldGuy

Anderson-Photography wrote:

I agree with John. Too much post processing with the noise reduction. A little noise isn't going to ruin your photos but I'm also speaking a newspaper sports shooter where a little noise isn't going to be an issue.
If you're shooting to sell prints have you thought about alower ISO to reduce noise but then using strobes?

Thanks Chris, my next line of attack will be to use flash, although I used them before, I wasn't happy with the shadows. I'll figure it out.


Regards,
John