Hi Darrien. I think it depends on where you're using the final image. With action sports, most of the time you want to crop around the subject fairly tight and lose anything from the frame that distracts the eye. However, if that means a lot of cropping and you're looking to print the image out, for example, then you will need to be more selective. Sorry to be vague, but in short, crop as tight as you can get away with for what the usage is.
Thx! Very informative. Question on image #9 header…do you consider cropping vertical rather than horizontal or are you required to crop horizontal for publication? Thx again.
Hi Dennis. Great question and thank your watching. Yes, ordinarily a vertical crop would work better. Currently, the watermark is only setup landscape so during a game I mostly only export landscape images. These are used on social media and websites more regularly. Often, after the game when I do a second run through I would export any shots that work vertically purely in the hi-res non-watermarked version for use in match programmes/magazines, etc. There is an argument for having both a portrait and square watermark export preset, something I should probably look into!
Great video Rich, really good to learn how you process and edit photos pitch side. One question though - I've just started to explore how to edit like this during a game to provide images to my club's media team. The issue I have is culling the images during the game/selecting just certain images to import and edit. Do you import all the images on your card into Lightroom, even though this normal takes ages to import up to 2,000 images, or is there a way of only importing certain ones? (eg - images that you rate or lock on your camera?). I find I spend ages scrolling through photos in the import module on Lightroom trying to find the right ones and miss a fair amount of action - is it any quicker to just import them all and then filter by star rating? Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance!
Hi there, and thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video! I think every photographer does it differently. Locking an image(s) in camera and deleting the rest is an approach a couple of guys take I know, but not one I'd feel confident doing!@ Because I'm always transferring during the game, I'm doing it incrementally and so kind of know what I've shot in the last 15-20 mins and where the action was. So I just import them al - sometimes delete a few on the camera before transferring. Usually after the game, I'll take a run through the entire Lightroom import from the day just to make sure I didn't miss any good stock or action. Sorry for the late reply by the way!
Nice work. Never used the batch export. Will need to start that for this type of work. Look forward to next weeks video.
Thanks Grant. I also didn't use batch export until a year or so ago, I haven't looked back since. It really speeds things up! Thank you for watching.
How do you handle having 2 different memory cards from 2 different cameras and keeping them in order when you work on them.
Thanks for sharing. When cropping, what's the smallest you would ever do, for instance, would you crop to less than 8 Megapixels?
Hi Darrien. I think it depends on where you're using the final image. With action sports, most of the time you want to crop around the subject fairly tight and lose anything from the frame that distracts the eye. However, if that means a lot of cropping and you're looking to print the image out, for example, then you will need to be more selective. Sorry to be vague, but in short, crop as tight as you can get away with for what the usage is.
Thx! Very informative. Question on image #9 header…do you consider cropping vertical rather than horizontal or are you required to crop horizontal for publication? Thx again.
Hi Dennis. Great question and thank your watching. Yes, ordinarily a vertical crop would work better. Currently, the watermark is only setup landscape so during a game I mostly only export landscape images. These are used on social media and websites more regularly. Often, after the game when I do a second run through I would export any shots that work vertically purely in the hi-res non-watermarked version for use in match programmes/magazines, etc. There is an argument for having both a portrait and square watermark export preset, something I should probably look into!
Great video Rich, really good to learn how you process and edit photos pitch side. One question though - I've just started to explore how to edit like this during a game to provide images to my club's media team.
The issue I have is culling the images during the game/selecting just certain images to import and edit. Do you import all the images on your card into Lightroom, even though this normal takes ages to import up to 2,000 images, or is there a way of only importing certain ones? (eg - images that you rate or lock on your camera?). I find I spend ages scrolling through photos in the import module on Lightroom trying to find the right ones and miss a fair amount of action - is it any quicker to just import them all and then filter by star rating? Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance!
Hi there, and thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video! I think every photographer does it differently. Locking an image(s) in camera and deleting the rest is an approach a couple of guys take I know, but not one I'd feel confident doing!@ Because I'm always transferring during the game, I'm doing it incrementally and so kind of know what I've shot in the last 15-20 mins and where the action was. So I just import them al - sometimes delete a few on the camera before transferring. Usually after the game, I'll take a run through the entire Lightroom import from the day just to make sure I didn't miss any good stock or action. Sorry for the late reply by the way!