Youth Hockey from Sunday - C&C Welcome

northcoast

So I am still at it and I offer these for comments. I now have some scripts/batch files for my LR3 process and this is the output. For the time it took yesterday I am starting to see the advantage of processing with LR3. My work monitor is not calibrated so I can't tell if the WB is off... but it is nice to have the process automated with LR3 and uploaded for review in the morning.

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Thanks in advance for looking!

Photosbychuck

Great series northcoast



Take Care,
Chuck,
www.icurdigital.com

jrowphoto

I think you have some nice shots in there... The white balance is pretty decent and consistent, especially for local youth hockey rinks! To me they look a tad bright/overexposed though, so I might bump the exposure down maybe 1/3 to 1/2 stop. Generally the ice shouldn't look "pure white", but more like off-white, to light gray. That being said, I usually expose higher than most people I shoot with. I shoot the Chicago Blackhawks, and I know most of the other shooters are probably a 1/2 to 1 stop darker than what I shoot. I shoot RAW though, and then bring the exposure/brightness down slightly in processing with presets, or with a -.5 exposure gradient adjustment in Lightroom.

John

northcoast

Thank you both for the replies. I took some pics on this past Sunday again but I haven't processed them at all.

I am still learning LR and the calibration software/hardware for my monitor. Feedback I got a few weeks back was that I was underexposed on the final set posted. So I calibrated my monitor and reprocessed that set. Perhaps the brightness and gamma are still off - now in the other direction.

Again, thanks for the feedback.