I like these a lot. I'm not a sports shooter, so I can't really give much in the way of a critique other than I personally might have tried raising the saturation in the darker colors, but we probably like different things, and that's ok.
I like these a lot. I'm not a sports shooter, so I can't really give much in the way of a critique other than I personally might have tried raising the saturation in the darker colors, but we probably like different things, and that's ok.
Well done
Thanks for the comment. I assume that can be done in Photoshop and not Lightroom? My mastery of Photoshop does not exist. I would love to learn though it seems the time involved is or has been more than I have. Part of my problem, I enjoy taking the pictures and not the post. I tend to make changes in camera until I like what shows up on the computer screen so it takes a few games in the same gym.
What I'm thinking of can be done in Lightroom. I guess by "darker colors" I meant the blues and reds of the away jerseys. You might try briefly playing with the blue and red sliders in the HSL panel in Lightroom, bringing saturation up a little, maybe playing with the others… the reds more than the blues and #3 more than #4… they've got great color already, I guess I just want more.
You got some nice action, your exposure looks pretty good, and the images are sharp. I wouldn't worry too much about the colors of the uniforms being saturated. What matters is white balance and skin tones. Both of these look good as well, at least on my monitor. You can play around with saturation, but would only do that for a picture that you know is going to be printed.
I think the saturation is fine for what they are. You don't need to go Nuclear on the colors. In fact, I keep running into pictures from a local shooter with a D3 that are BEYOND Nuclear and it's REALLY distracting that the saturation is so high on all of his pictures. So I'd error on the side of muted than over the top any day.
Thanks for all the comments. I do everything in Manual mode and manual white balance with an expodisk. I bumped the saturation in the camera. The things I mess with most in post are the brightness levels of the picture being a highschool gym and not using additonal lighting and of course noise ninja. That is usually it. This gym had 3 lights out around the basket so the faces were much darker on the original photo.
Again thanks for all the comments.
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Well done
Thanks for the comment. I assume that can be done in Photoshop and not Lightroom? My mastery of Photoshop does not exist. I would love to learn though it seems the time involved is or has been more than I have. Part of my problem, I enjoy taking the pictures and not the post. I tend to make changes in camera until I like what shows up on the computer screen so it takes a few games in the same gym.
Again thanks for all the comments.