NCWA Wrestling Finals

[dfwtxphoto]

Hello, please tell me how you think these photos turned out. I took them this past weekend at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association Finals held at the University of Texas - Dallas. There were two different light sources which posed a real challenge. These Photos were taken with a 20d, 80-200mm f2.8L without any cropping or other adjustments. I would appreciate your assessment of these photos ...Thanks

[dfwtxphoto]

These Photos were taken with a 20d, 85mm f1.8.

[dfwtxphoto]

These Photos were taken with a 20d, 200mm f2.8L.

[maderito]

Good action.

All of the shots seem very soft. It seems that your shutter speed was too slow.

What were your camera settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed, RAW/JPEG, AdobeRGB/sRGB).

Post processing would help. :confused:

[dfwtxphoto]

Good action.

All of the shots seem very soft. It seems that your shutter speed was too slow.

What were your camera settings (ISO, aperture, shutter speed, RAW/JPEG, AdobeRGB/sRGB).

Post processing would help. :confused:

I shot these using the aperture priority 2.8 and 1.8 @ ISO 1600, jpeg, adobeRGB and custom white balance. Because of the lighting, shutter speed was usually around 100 or a little above. When I used the 85mm 1.8, I was able to get up to 500 on the shutter speed. I dont like to use a flash and this gym had two different light sources that hit the four mats (a real headache). I agree they are too soft and I definetly need to work on them in PS. I was not pleased with how these turned out. I have never had much luck shooting wrestling with a flash, cant seem to get the settings right. Advice on shooting these type of events with a flash would be appreciated.....Thanks

I made some corrections on the first 2 photos using PS, they do look better

[Zamora3]

Did you happen to get any pictures of any Oklahoma State wrestler? btw, really nice pictures.

[cactusclay]

I think they are pretty good, part of the problem might be shallow depth of field. I would take a white or grey card with me next time and do a custom wb with the existing lighting.

[dfwtxphoto]

Did you happen to get any pictures of any Oklahoma State wrestler? btw, really nice pictures.

No they were not there. Their Division 1 finals are this coming weekend. Sure wish I could be there. Maybe next year, I hear it will be in Oklahoma City.

[drisley]

The second batch with the processing have exceptional colour and contrast and would be perfect, except I think you may have over-sharpened them. I see some aliasing and halos.
Reduce the sharpening a tad, and you've got some keepers.