How to Photograph Football--14 Tips for Friday HS Football

[joeblack2022]

It's funny (and awesome) how you updated the thread the same day I subscribed to it...!

[bobbyz]

Phil, thanks. Also thanks to other folks for contributing to this thread. I hope I can shoot more football this season.

[dwarrenr]

Originally Posted by Zivnuska

Some pros protest that time is money and it does take a second longer to download a RAW image compared to a jpeg, but I suggest that there will come a time when you capture a key moment and want to create the best final picture possible. RAW lets you do that. Even if you don't know how to use the full power of RAW now, non-destructive processing allows you to go back years later and do a more sophisticated edit.

Phil, thanks for the update. With your statement above it's worth pointing out a good work around. Shooting Friday Night Football with an 8:00PM deadline the best thing to do is save images as RAW and JPG's on the memory card. (Or better yet if you have a 1D body save the RAW files to one card and jpg's to another.) I'll leave right before or at half time, ingest the jpg's, process and submit and be back on the field before the second half. If there are any shot's worth submitting but totally blown it will only take a few seconds to load the RAW file, edit then export.

Good luck everyone, and pray'n it's a great season for all.

[bobbyz]

Originally Posted by dwarrenr

Phil, thanks for the update. With your statement above it's worth pointing out a good work around. Shooting Friday Night Football with an 8:00PM deadline the best thing to do is save images as RAW and JPG's on the memory card. (Or better yet if you have a 1D body save the RAW files to one card and jpg's to another.) I'll leave right before or at half time, ingest the jpg's, process and submit and be back on the field before the second half. If there are any shot's worth submitting but totally blown it will only take a few seconds to load the RAW file, edit then export.

Good luck everyone, and pray'n it's a great season for all.

Actually now 5dmk3 can do same thing but I get your point. having both formats is best.

I also hope this is good season for all. Last yr I only shot one or two games. I had problems with my leg brace and couldn't walk much. Hope this yr is better and I got a camera to let me shoot night time games.

[Zivnuska]

Something that I'm doing now (1D Mark IV) is to shoot RAW on my CF card and jpeg to my sd card which is an eye-fi pro X2 card. The eye-fi card will transmit my jpeg images wirelessly to my iPad. That is way cool. Cheap and easy too! I can do a quick iPhoto edit in my iPad if I need it or just use the iPad to evaluate shots on a screen that is far larger than the back of the camera. This is wonderful for any shot(s) where it is helpful to check images as you shoot. Having the images on the iPad makes it easy to transmit them to whomever needs them.

Very useful in getting images sent to a newspaper in a hurry (where quality is not paramount). Also great for checking progress during a portrait photo shoot. Later, I process the best images in RAW on my 27" iMac for best quality. The best of both worlds.

[dwarrenr]

I went with the eye-fi card at the end of the basketball season last year. Used it to setup a remote which was very helpful but have not used it for transmitting. It would help out and save some time if I had it setup to transfer to my MacBook...if only it had more range. LOL

[JPMosu]

The points made in the original post are great, I plan to take them with me to the football game I shoot.