Motocross Playing with Panning

jwashburn

illuminati919

These are pretty good panning shoots, I like the roost , just try to add some more contrast in PS.

jwashburn

illuminati919 wrote:

These are pretty good panning shoots, I like the roost , just try to add some more contrast in PS.

Thanks. I am always a little hesitant to do work in Photoshop. I feel a little guilty, like I should have just taken a better photograph.

Ill play with it a bit

HarveyMushman

jwashburn wrote:

Thanks. I am always a little hesitant to do work in Photoshop. I feel a little guilty, like I should have just taken a better photograph.

Ill play with it a bit

You're not alone. But eventually you'll cave and allow yourself some minor edits.

mercphoto

jwashburn wrote:

Thanks. I am always a little hesitant to do work in Photoshop. I feel a little guilty, like I should have just taken a better photograph.

Understandable. But don't forget that in the days of film a lot of work was done to images in the darkroom. I feel that doing the same type of things to an image in Photoshop is perfectly acceptable, if not necessary. Consider this night motocross shot.

RAW conversion with no adjustments:


Now with adjustments to exposure, brightness and constrast, plus noise reduction and sharpening, which really isn't "much" Photoshopping:


I'll admit I'm still learning when to "stop". When is the exposure adjustment too much? How to balance noise reduction versus sharpening? Etc.