A few JV Soccer on Tuesday Night

Gringriff

Here are a few from JV soccer team last night. I didn't catch much of the action but here are a few. The team won 6-1. I also took some of the varsity (they lost 1-4) but they are still in camera. The lighting was BAD for the varsity game so I don't know if any of those will be decent.

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Photosbychuck

my fav #1

#2 Nice Shot , I would try to tone down the shirt a bit.

Take Care,
Charles

Gringriff

Photosbychuck wrote:

my fav #1

#2 Nice Shot , I would try to tone down the shirt a bit.

Take Care,
Charles

Thanks Charles for the feedback. I agree the shirt is too bright.

I am trying to learn the burn and dodge tools and much more in Photoshop but am having limited success. Below are two more versions (edited from the jpg file). In the first I tried to "burn" the shirt but to me it just turns out too "gray" looking [Also burn is inconsistent - yuck]. In the second I made a masking layer, decreased the exposure of that layer, and tried to paint in just the shirt areas (and right sock), then adjusted the opacity to around 35%. Any thoughts on which is the better method? Obviously I butchered the Burn attempt but generally speaking is one way preferred over the other>

Thanks for any feedback.
Andy

1. Just using Burn tool...


2. Now using a mask layer and adjusting the exposure...

InsuredDisaster

I'm not seeing a whole lotta difference in your photoshop edits.


If you shoot raw, and have raw editing capabilities, then I think you should have no trouble.


In lightroom, or Adobe Camera Raw, I'd try a couple of things.

The recovery slider could be used, just to see what happens, but I think these photos are a bit washed out.

So I'd bump the exposure down a slight notch (actually, more like 1.5 stops for me), then adjust fill light and recovery, a well as the blacks slightly to see what happens. I think you could boost contrast and saturation, lessen the washed out look and really make your photos explode from the screen.


If you shot JPG, well, you could still try ACR, but I think you are going to have a lot more trouble. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. Ok, not quite, but I hope you did shoot RAW.

nipprdog

It's all about the faces, not the shirts.

InsuredDisaster

nipprdog wrote:

It's all about the faces, not the shirts.

True, but I think in the photo he tried to edit, the face is still a bit over exposed and washed out.

Mitchell

nipprdog wrote:

It's all about the faces, not the shirts.

Very true.

Took me a while to accept this, but folks want to see properly exposed faces and don't care about the shirts. My daughter's team likes to wear white uniforms on the hottest of Florida days. I now ignore the blown highlights on the shirts and shoot manual to get proper exposure of the faces.