More High School Wrestling Shots (no post process)

[Hawk1959]

Here are a few more from last weekend. I need to get PS to do the USM as suggested before. I am on the road so no tools...

Again, 800 ISO, 50M F1.8 Lens, F on Photos 2.0, speed 400.

THis was a great match... Hope you like the action.

Dave

[Croasdail]

You can get it's junior product - photoshop elements for about $60 that will allow you do to a lot of this stuff. It will make a difference. I do like the first shot... there is a story with that one. Second one is okay.... I find it always risky to have decernable views in the background because if you don't isolate enough from them, and they aren't looking very interested... then it posses problems for the image. The second one may be a little too soft to pull back up. But give it a try, composition and timing is good on it so it's worth a try. Cheers.

[cargo123]

Nice job captureing the intensity in number one. I think I would like a tighter crop in number 2.

[Croasdail]

Dave - here is a quick 30 second punch up on the image with Photoshop Elementes 2.0 which should have come with your camera. All I did was some UnSharpen Mask (settings 300,.2,0) and upped saturation by 10%. It is quick and dirty but I think you get the idea. Shows what a good shot you have here. Cheers.

[superdiver]

Wow, what a difference....

[Hawk1959]

Mark,

THANKS!! I will see what I can do when I get home. I need to sit down with someone and go over all I can do in the post shooting processes. I have been shooting RAW and JPEG and have been playing but never finding my grove with the software tools. Guess it the Engineer in me that can do great drafting things (Read Straight lines) but could never do real "Art". lol

I will use the suggestions on some more and post some of the results. I got so many good shots that weekend...well... in my thoughts!! lol

Now to afford some better glass!! The 50mm 1.8 is the only thing I use on wrestling. All the rest are F4.0 and above and really do not work out.

Dave