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04/23/2005 02:59:10 AM · #1 |
Shooting a high school badminton team. Not too many badminton pictures out there so I tried some different things for the solo shots. Going back next Fri to finish the rest of the team (took about 200 pics, roughly half done with solos). Comments and advice are welcome.
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04/23/2005 03:14:50 AM · #2 |
I like the second one. They are all "frozen". I would try to apply motion blur while taking dynamic pictures or I would use post processing to achieve this. Of course it is easy to say...
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04/23/2005 03:30:05 AM · #3 |
| I like #3, the action. But I would clone out the spot light in the right top corner. It draws your eyes away from the action. Good job |
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04/23/2005 03:50:43 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by artvet:
They are all "frozen". |
As I think you'll find the majority of people sports photographs are.
Mike also did a fantastic job to get them crisp, which is by no means easy.
Originally posted by artvet:
I would try to apply motion blur while taking dynamic pictures or I would use post processing to achieve this. Of course it is easy to say... |
Slow-shutter shots of badminton are exceptionally difficult because the play is often moving in all three dimensions at once. If Mike were shooting this semi/professionally the chances are he would go for static/sharp shots as they are more likely to be what publications want.
As for post-processing motion blur - it looks obviously inconsistent with the image and is something that rarely looks good.
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04/23/2005 04:38:07 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
Mike also did a fantastic job to get them crisp, which is by no means easy. |
- I didn't say that it was easy.
Originally posted by PaulMdx:
Slow-shutter shots of badminton are exceptionally difficult because the play is often moving in all three dimensions at once. |
- I agree with you - they are not easy! But may be actually interesting.
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04/23/2005 05:41:35 PM · #6 |
| My favorite one is the first one. No real comments other than some post processing to get rid of the light in the one picture and to lighten some of the facial shadows. Overall Really good shots. |
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04/23/2005 05:55:00 PM · #7 |
These are really good!!
The expressions are wonderful, the dark tones make them more artistic rather then just another sports photos. They are so unique!
I like the shadows, but the only thing I would try to avoid (or else use PS to clone out) are those spot-lights on the ceiling. They are distracting and I don't find them to be necessary in the photo. (on the 6th photo, that spot right above the player's head HAS GOT to go. It is the worst of them all IMO)
Other then that they all look like both the players and yoursel were having lot's of fun. I also enjoyed them very much.
Good luck on the rest of the shooting!
Edit: Would you please become a dpc member, so I can add the first and last photos to my favorites? ;-)
Message edited by author 2005-04-23 17:57:43.
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04/23/2005 11:46:55 PM · #8 |
Thanks for all the replies! Yeah I agree with the lights, they're pretty distracting. I'll work on cloning em out.
I doubt there's enough ambient light to pull off a blur shot.
And yes, we all had fun. Next week should go smoother.
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