A spot of Hockey, Rugger and Footy from the weekend...

Tall_Paul_2000 wrote in post #2224955
I assume that you treated the grass as a grey card and went from there?

Yep.. as simple as that really.

---- Gavin

superdiver wrote in post #2225207
They are all great, imagine that...LOL

What I found really cool is how the truff from the hockey is in focus and tels you exaclty how small the DOF you have is...paper thin...!

Wonderful stuff man!

Thanks superdiver... the 400mm works pretty sweetly with the 1.4x extender and it's always nice to have enough light to take advantage of that combo.

---- Gavin

Ok compadre..... got to ask. What is the deal with the sharpening. Your last couple of post show more sharpening then I had noticed in the past. The reason I bring this up is a few months ago I was having issues with large prints not being sharp enough - and you and a couple other people mentioned that I need to pump the sharpening up a lot for large prints. I had been worried about it, but when I tried it, despite that the screen image looking like crap, the printed images looked like smooth as butter. So I have been playing with the whole work flow thing. I had been staying away from touching screen sharpening as I used to way over do it trying to save images that I just shouldn't have. None of your images need saving, but I have notice an uptic in the level of sharpening you are doing. Is there something driving this, or is it just to get that last little extra pop. What I hate is the more I learn... the more I notice things, things that really in the big scheme of things don't matter. My wife thinks I am nuts.... and I probably am now. Ah... the search for the perfect image goes on. Cheers.

Hi Mark,

In all honesty the difference in sharpening is simply down to my current (and un-tweaked) workflow.

I'm not finding as much time to post recently, so I'm just proofing the web images in BreezeBrowser for speed and not working on them individually in PS. So that's about the size of it. The same sharpening is applied to all the pics and I'm not making the subtle adjustments that I did in the past.

---- Gavin

Croasdail wrote in post #2276108
Ok compadre..... got to ask. What is the deal with the sharpening. Your last couple of post show more sharpening then I had noticed in the past. The reason I bring this up is a few months ago I was having issues with large prints not being sharp enough - and you and a couple other people mentioned that I need to pump the sharpening up a lot for large prints. I had been worried about it, but when I tried it, despite that the screen image looking like crap, the printed images looked like smooth as butter. So I have been playing with the whole work flow thing. I had been staying away from touching screen sharpening as I used to way over do it trying to save images that I just shouldn't have. None of your images need saving, but I have notice an uptic in the level of sharpening you are doing. Is there something driving this, or is it just to get that last little extra pop. What I hate is the more I learn... the more I notice things, things that really in the big scheme of things don't matter. My wife thinks I am nuts.... and I probably am now. Ah... the search for the perfect image goes on. Cheers.

Wow, these are all just excellent! I especially enjoyed the one of the assault on the goal keeper though.

The hockey and football are great but the rugby is so so

very nice action here