Next shoot...

McMurray Girls' Soccer, this afternoon down at McMurray.

Been a while since I've been able to shoot McMurray sports, so this will be fun.

Now up...

...VISC Alligators GU-11 soccer, from 11/21/09.

A three-day turnaround. Not bad for having shot 734 original RAW photos.

Whittled that down to 159 tiff's that made the final cut.

That's about 22%.

:-/

Pretty straight forward stuff: EOS 5D Mark II; 70-200mm f2.8L zoom lens with a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length range of 98-280mm; image stabilization on, hand-held.

White balance "cloudy"; ISO 1600; aperture priority auto-exposure (Av) at f5.6; most shutter speeds in the range of 1/320th to 1/800th second; one-shot auto focus with a single, center focus point; focus lock.

RAW conversion with Breeze Browser: smart noise reduction "normal"; white balance "cloudy"; sharpness +4 (as shot +3); exposure compensation in the range of -0.4 to +0.4 as needed.

And it didn't rain.

:-)

Now up...

...VISC Comets GU-12 soccer from 11/14/09.


Pretty straight forward: Canon EOS 5D Mark II with 70-200mm f2.8L zoom and a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length of 98-280mm; image stabilization on, hand-held.

White balance "cloudy"; ISO 800; aperture priority auto-exposure (Av) at f5.6, producing typical shutter speeds of 500th second; one-shot center-point focusing with focus lock.

Now up...

VHS Girls' Soccer v CWA, and Senior's Night 2009:


After re-RAW converting all the second half photos (one of them, above) to a white balance of "Fluorescent" rather than "Auto-As shot" the results are much improved in that they're consistent if not 100% "correct".

I think that if the photos had been originally shot with one specific white balance the outcome would be pretty much spot-on.

EOS 5D; 70-200mm f2.8L with a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length of 98-280mm; shot at 98mm; White Balance Auto-As shot; Manual exposure 200th at f8.0;

RAW conversion: white balance "fluorescent"; exposure compesation +2; PS levels mid 1.1 high 180-200; fill flash 3 lighter, 35 saturation; Neat Image digital noise reduction 5D @ 1600 ISO 200th f5.6; remove only half of noise

White balance redux...

Just decided to re-RAW convert all the second half VHS Girls' Soccer v CWA photos: kept coming across a few photos where the white balance as first RAW converted (from "as shot Auto White Balance") was so weird that the color rendition was just coming outer space.

:-/

The end product should be much improved.

Girls' Soccer Senior's Night 2009 is up at www.finchhaven.com/vhs/ ... /Girls_Soccer_v_CWA_and_Seniors_Night_102709/Seniors_Night

Working on...

Vashon Island Soccer Club GU14 (Phoenix) and GU13 (Riptide) soccer from Saturday, October 24; VHS Football from several dates; VHS Volleyball from Thursday, October 21

Basically trying to get caught up :-/

Recent shoot

Tuesday 10/27/09: VHS Girls soccer versus Charles Wright, and Senior's Night. The Pirates won handily 4-0, and I got almost no shots of our keeper because she was so lightly stressed during the match.

EOS 5D, hand-held, available light, ISO 1600, 200th sec at f8.0, 70-200mm f2.8L zoom with a 1.4x extender for an effective focal length of 98-280mm.