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11/03/2007 10:47:34 AM · #1 |
I have been taking photos for the local university's hockey program. I generally end up with 600-900 photos of a single game. I shoot in RAW, and then use ACR to process them. I have Photoshop CS2, and not Lightroom, yet. I can select all of the photos, and apply automatic adjustments to all of them together, or to single photos at a time. Is there a way to increas the exposure to all of the photos at the same time, but not to the same number? In other words, if I tell ACR to do the "auto" adjustments, I could end up with, lets say, a range of exposure values between -1 and +1. However, the auto never works the best because of all of the bright ice. It generally underxposes it about 1 stop. But if I drag the slider to +1, all of the photos have a value of +1, which is too much for some, and not enough for others. Is there a way to tell it to take the current values, based off of the auto adjustment, and increase them all a certain amount?
Scott
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11/03/2007 11:13:20 AM · #2 |
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11/03/2007 11:16:01 AM · #3 |
Maybe you can do your global adjustment as described, check-mark the ones that need further adjustment, then "show only" checked images, and do another global adjustment to those? Then remove check on the ones that need no further adjustment, "show only" checked once more, and do a third pass?
This is how I do it in EOS Viewer Utility btw... I rarely use ACR.
R.
Message edited by author 2007-11-03 11:17:04.
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11/03/2007 07:02:43 PM · #4 |
That would be a totally cool feature, I'd definitely use it a lot. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.
Since the lighting conditions don't change much during the course of the game, I suppose you could dial in the exposure before the game and shoot in manual. I would think you'd get more consistency than the meter is going to give you, which might be easier to adjust on the back end. Or else try the different camera metering modes, and see if a different one provides more consistent results for hockey. |
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11/03/2007 08:28:59 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by annpatt:
Since the lighting conditions don't change much during the course of the game, I suppose you could dial in the exposure before the game and shoot in manual. I would think you'd get more consistency than the meter is going to give you, which might be easier to adjust on the back end. Or else try the different camera metering modes, and see if a different one provides more consistent results for hockey. |
I do that already. The only problem is that the lighting is uneven from one side of the rink to the other. The lighting is also different if you shoot rinkside or elevated. So that creates more of a difficult situation.
You can create those automated features in Photoshop to do certain processing, could you do the same automation in ACR? Does anyone know? |
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11/03/2007 10:37:43 PM · #6 |
Generally, you're going to have a "series" of shots ... all shot from the same location, pointing in the same general direction, at the same type of subject. Some of these can be a long series of shots, some might be short (only a couple of photos in the series, maybe only one).
The best bet is to adjust the first image in the series. Then select the rest of the images in that series and hit Sync. Repeat this process for each "series" that you identify.
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11/03/2007 10:43:15 PM · #7 |
When I load the images and have it apply a preset as the images are loaded. This sets up the images for what I like to use for color, contrast, saturation, vignette, etc. Essentially, I have applied a "global" change to all of my images right from the start.
After that, I usually make a couple of passes through Lightroom:
1) Mark all images with a 1 that I think are worth keeping (left hand on the 1, right hand on the left-right area keys). This is done in Library mode with a single image filling the screen.
2) Scan the images that were selected with a 1 and look for duplicates or images that are essentially the same and throw out the lesser of the two. This is done one-handed, with the right hand hitting the 0 key and also using the left-right arrows.
If I'm posting proofs a customer, I'm done. If, on the other hand, I'm trying to select the best images, I'll probably go back and rate the images (1-5) if I didn't already do that in step 1.
3) Now that I've whittled down my list of images to process, I'll make another pass doing the "series" changes that I described earlier. Change one, sync the rest in the series.
While I'm doing that, I may tweak individual images if they don't exactly fit the mold. More often than not, the only tweak I make here is to crop the image, but some times I'm adjusting individual exposures or changing to black and white.
Anyway, that's how I process images ... if the ideas are useful, feel free to borrow them. :-)
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11/04/2007 01:50:35 AM · #8 |
I normally process around 600 sports images per weekend (300 images per Saturday and 300 on Sunday). I make a first pass through the photos, grouping them into similar compositions and exposures. These groupings are sub-folders on my computer.
In my case (soccer matches), I group the ones with mostly grass in the composition, and group the close-ups (where grass is not that dominant). The non-grass ones also can contain shots with mostly sky as the background.
The reason being, is that these groups are similar in exposure, or should I say they are candidates for like exposure tweaking (color temperature).
When processing RAW, I'll process each group (in ACR) in batch with their own group adjustments.
When processing TIFFs/JPGs, I have set up some CS3 Actions (per group) to use on each group (via File > Automate > Batch). These actions can perform levels/white balance adjustments, sharpening, etc. These are automatically saved in a separate "output" folder.
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11/04/2007 01:06:49 AM · #9 |
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11/04/2007 03:01:17 AM · #10 |
Here is an "out of the box" idea:
Use a objShell.SendKeys script. Works great if you can navigate by keystrokes. Check this link for the code and modify it accordingly. |
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