High School Football

Well, last night was the best photographic experience I have had. I finally got my field pass to shoot my school's sports teams so I was out having fun last night. It's a lot different than being in the crowd with all my buddies, even though most of the football players are close friends of mine as well.

Did you shoot in RAW?

Looks like you can bring the exposures up a notch and do a WB.

A little dark (underexposed) but pretty good, given your equipment's limitations. Good focus. No EXIF. Was your lens maxed out on all of these? If not, keep it pegged at 200. Really work on getting faces instead of backs.

They are all underexposed. Like Clarence said bring the exposure up and it will make all the difference.

Bumped up the brightness/contrast and fixed the OP. The noise really bugs me, but, what are you going to do?

By the way, yes, I stuck on 200mm pretty much the whole game. I didn't a few times but those pictures weren't keepers anyways. I was at 1/320, ISO 1600, and 2.8 the whole game.

These need an exposure bump still.. Id be afraid to see what the originals were like.. Action and focus wise these are good but they are still way dark..

canonnoob wrote in post #11020625
These need an exposure bump still.. Id be afraid to see what the originals were like.. Action and focus wise these are good but they are still way dark..

I was just thinking the same thing. The originals had to have been brutal.
You can only push underexposed high iso images so far. But I'm pretty sure this was already told to the op in his discussion thread where he was advised to flash the game. You have good action though.

canonnoob wrote in post #11020625
These need an exposure bump still.. Id be afraid to see what the originals were like.. Action and focus wise these are good but they are still way dark..

I agree

Did this real quick in LR3 just for an example. If you shot in raw just throw it in and change the exposure and maybe a little recovery and fill. It should not have noise from that. Tried to remove the noise but it did not do much.

I think the original batch looked more salvageable than your brightening attempts.

Can you post the originals one more time and I'll take a hack at the curves.

zelseman wrote in post #11020752
I was just thinking the same thing. The originals had to have been brutal.
You can only push underexposed high iso images so far. But I'm pretty sure this was already told to the op in his discussion thread where he was advised to flash the game. You have good action though.

To make a conclusion like that without even seeing what the originals looked like is ignorant. They weren't bad, well, maybe they were. In fact, I really didn't lighten them much. So, they were a little bit darker with a bit less noise visible.

Also, I am not allowed to flash. I asked my AD when I walked onto the field and said he'd really advise me not to. I'll just finish the season off with what I have because I am planning on picking up a new body in the near future. Meaning, I'll have a new body by next season.

Remember, this was my first football game I have ever shot. Being under the lights really made it hard for me to get things right. And, obviously, I still haven't...

I'll try again next weekend and have another batch of pictures.

Cole_Schmitt wrote in post #11022406
To make a conclusion like that without even seeing what the originals looked like is ignorant. They weren't bad, well, maybe they were. In fact, I really didn't lighten them much. So, they were a little bit darker with a bit less noise visible.

Also, I am not allowed to flash. I asked my AD when I walked onto the field and said he'd really advise me not to. I'll just finish the season off with what I have because I am planning on picking up a new body in the near future. Meaning, I'll have a new body by next season.

Remember, this was my first football game I have ever shot. Being under the lights really made it hard for me to get things right. And, obviously, I still haven't...

I'll try again next weekend and have another batch of pictures.

Then why go into another posters thread and comment on changing his properly exposed images to be underexposed?

Maybe it's my laptop, but they looked over exposed to me. Maybe that's why I don't see where you guys are getting "horribly underexposed" from.

Let this thread die.

Cole_Schmitt wrote in post #11024327
Maybe it's my laptop, but they looked over exposed to me. Maybe that's why I don't see where you guys are getting "horribly underexposed" from.

Let this thread die.

Editing on an LCD monitor is tough, moving your head a little up or down and the apparent exposure changes.

Cole_Schmitt wrote in post #11024327
Maybe it's my laptop, but they looked over exposed to me. Maybe that's why I don't see where you guys are getting "horribly underexposed" from.

Let this thread die.

cole,

all we are trying to do is help you become better... If you start to get bitter about the critique we are giving you then you will start to think that your "stuff" doesnt stink.. which is a very dangerous thinking to have. Listen to what some of us have to say. You say that they look over exposed on your laptop, you laptop probably is not calibrated for one. Be careful what you say.

By the way, the ones you have posted ARE underexposed.

canonnoob wrote in post #11024433
cole,

all we are trying to do is help you become better... If you start to get bitter about the critique we are giving you then you will start to think that your "stuff" doesnt stink.. which is a very dangerous thinking to have. Listen to what some of us have to say. You say that they look over exposed on your laptop, you laptop probably is not calibrated for one. Be careful what you say.

By the way, the ones you have posted ARE underexposed.

Dave, I am well aware that everyone in here is trying to help me, and I appreciate that 110%. I know my work is not up to par, or close to it for that matter, which is why I don't like to post my work on here very much.

Anyways, I had a long day yesterday so I may have come off as a bit bitter. But, I'm on my family laptop which is calibrated and can definitely say I see where all of you are coming from. My laptop is outdated but at the moment it's what I have to work with.

All I can do is try again next week and hope for better results