Bright, sunny day for this game. One of those days where you can shoot at the same exposure setting for the whole game. The problem with bright sun is very high contrast, which you have to deal with in post production. Since Commack’s turf field runs east/west I try to keep bright sunlight to my back whenever possible. That helps to minimize the time spent editing...
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The weather improved a bit for this game. It was a bit chilly but with filtered sun and a lighter breeze. There were enough clouds in the sky to keep the contrast down so you could shoot into the sun and get some fairly decent photos. Plus, it stayed fairly light out until the very end when I had to bump the ISO up to 3200. Even though Commack lost they scored a good...
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Congratulations to the Commack girls lacrosse team for their win over Brentwood. This was a fairly bright day so any shots into the sun required lots of post-processing to put detail back into the shadows. You could overexpose these types of photos enough to correctly expose the shadow side of the subject, but then you’d blow out the background. This, of course is...
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This was an exciting lacrosse game. Even though Commack lost in the end, they played well. The weather was cloudy, chilly and windy. I like an overcast day for photography but the clouds were really dense. ISO 1250 was the best I did all day, and I ended up going to ISO 4000 late in the game. When the clouds are really dense I find I need to warm up my white balance even...
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Congratulations to the Commack girls lacrosse team on their convincing win over Riverhead on Friday. It was a high-scoring game so there was a lot of action to photograph. That was good because, after shooting indoors all winter, I needed all the practice I could get shooting on the field. One thing new that I have been trying recently is to change the “Focus...
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Hey, I got to photograph another event in the sunshine! Sometimes it’s the little things that make your day. Given the contrasty sunlight during this game, I thought it might be a good time to discuss the whole raw vs. jpeg issue. If you’re using a point and shoot camera, in most cases that decision is already a done deal since few point-and-shoots give you...
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