Just getting back into sports photography, I have gained so much from your videos. This was my first middle school game shooting in RAW, used your presets...huge difference! Thanks!
Just made a preset from the settings in the video description and tried the preset out on some of my soccer backlit images and WOW what a change. Thanks so much for the great videos and tips. Putting the settings in the description made it so easy. Thanks again!
The hardest backlit photos are swim photos with the easily blown out highlights from the water. While backlit swim shots can look good with the right angle by backlighting the water around the swimmer, if the sun is right behind the swimmer, it can be nearly impossible to post process back. I find under exposing a little to avoid the blown highlights and then try to adjust and bring back down the highlights and bring up the shadows.
That's good to hear! When I was researching this video, making sure I wasn't saying anything stupid, I saw a lot of different techniques. Some of them were pretty complicated, and most examples were for portraits. I decided the way I've been doing it works for me.
I shoot alot of pageantry (read: marching bands) in various stadiums around my area. My processing is much the same as yours, but, like you, I crop first. I use a gaming mouse with macros and buttons and such, so my thumb goes to my "crop" button and I immediatly mouse to where I think the crop will start and stretch a crop (like the rectangle selection tool in PS)...easy to do and it takes a few seconds, along with going to the corner and adjusting the skew. What I wanted to mention, when you originally cropped the player with the ball coming at him I cringed when you didn't elimanate the upper left corner highlight...out of habit I will line the stands up as "square" and try to take out all the distractions and, in this case, that would've been one of 'em. You do great vids so not bagging, just relating what *I* do...
Good idea on the gaming mouse buttons. I haven't tried that yet. As far as the cropping, I don't usually do 4x6, I was just keeping it simple as that really wasn't the focus of the video.
Thx Jack! Excellent educational video as always! If I recall correctly in prior videos you mentioned you shoot in manual with auto iso. Has much exposure compensation are you adding when shooting backlit?
I'm a bit spoiled these days with the Z9. It recognizes faces and adjusts exposure compensation to the skin tones. If I see it's being fooled, I'll compensate accordingly, usually adding 0.3 or 0.7 or subtracting about the same if it's overexposing. You don't want to add too much because as you saw, highlights are a problem in these situations.
@@JackBeasleyMedia same on my Sony A1 but I do add .5 to 1 full stop ( I use 1/2 stops not 1/3) depending on how strong the backlight is just to limit any noise issues. In raw, as you know there is a lot of leeway before you lose any details. Thx again
Hi Jack, HS football reg season is over tommorrow night here in Des Moines Iowa, state is starting in a week..anyhow like you I carry a 70-200 and a 300mm 2.8 on two bodies, If you could only take one lens which one would you leave home???
Hahah I know why would I? I love the 300 2.8 but man that lens is a pig when it comes to weight, but the images are outstanding. I bought a harness for two camera the "cotton" one. I like it but with both cameras its a bit heavy,D850 and the Z8 with 70-200 on one and the 300 on the other. My question I'm getting the running plays easy, but the passing plays, do you pick a receiver and just follow him ? I find that when I try to follow the ball with a 300mm I get lost and its to late, so I think I should be using the 80-200 cause for me it seems easier to find the receiver when focusing??
Just getting back into sports photography, I have gained so much from your videos. This was my first middle school game shooting in RAW, used your presets...huge difference! Thanks!
What exactly does shooting RAW do?
RAW vs JPEG: Which is Better For Sports Photography?
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Just made a preset from the settings in the video description and tried the preset out on some of my soccer backlit images and WOW what a change. Thanks so much for the great videos and tips. Putting the settings in the description made it so easy. Thanks again!
Glad to help!
The hardest backlit photos are swim photos with the easily blown out highlights from the water. While backlit swim shots can look good with the right angle by backlighting the water around the swimmer, if the sun is right behind the swimmer, it can be nearly impossible to post process back. I find under exposing a little to avoid the blown highlights and then try to adjust and bring back down the highlights and bring up the shadows.
When I saw your adjustments I laughed a little. They are almost the exact same adjustments I would have made. Nice, straight forward video.
That's good to hear! When I was researching this video, making sure I wasn't saying anything stupid, I saw a lot of different techniques. Some of them were pretty complicated, and most examples were for portraits. I decided the way I've been doing it works for me.
I shoot alot of pageantry (read: marching bands) in various stadiums around my area. My processing is much the same as yours, but, like you, I crop first. I use a gaming mouse with macros and buttons and such, so my thumb goes to my "crop" button and I immediatly mouse to where I think the crop will start and stretch a crop (like the rectangle selection tool in PS)...easy to do and it takes a few seconds, along with going to the corner and adjusting the skew. What I wanted to mention, when you originally cropped the player with the ball coming at him I cringed when you didn't elimanate the upper left corner highlight...out of habit I will line the stands up as "square" and try to take out all the distractions and, in this case, that would've been one of 'em. You do great vids so not bagging, just relating what *I* do...
Good idea on the gaming mouse buttons. I haven't tried that yet. As far as the cropping, I don't usually do 4x6, I was just keeping it simple as that really wasn't the focus of the video.
Thank you very much.
You are welcome!
Thanks jack! Great video!
Glad you liked it!
At the start you showed "Profile: camera standard" I cannot find the "profile block" in lightroom Classic 2024
It’s in the basic panel, just under “treatment”
Thx Jack! Excellent educational video as always! If I recall correctly in prior videos you mentioned you shoot in manual with auto iso. Has much exposure compensation are you adding when shooting backlit?
I'm a bit spoiled these days with the Z9. It recognizes faces and adjusts exposure compensation to the skin tones. If I see it's being fooled, I'll compensate accordingly, usually adding 0.3 or 0.7 or subtracting about the same if it's overexposing. You don't want to add too much because as you saw, highlights are a problem in these situations.
@@JackBeasleyMedia same on my Sony A1 but I do add .5 to 1 full stop ( I use 1/2 stops not 1/3) depending on how strong the backlight is just to limit any noise issues. In raw, as you know there is a lot of leeway before you lose any details. Thx again
Off topic, are you able to use your 400mm f2.8 from your 2021 in my bag video on your Z9/Z8? Thanks.
Yes, no problem
Hi Jack, HS football reg season is over tommorrow night here in Des Moines Iowa, state is starting in a week..anyhow like you I carry a 70-200 and a 300mm 2.8 on two bodies, If you could only take one lens which one would you leave home???
I don't know, maybe the 70-200. But why would you?
Hahah I know why would I? I love the 300 2.8 but man that lens is a pig when it comes to weight, but the images are outstanding. I bought a harness for two camera the "cotton" one. I like it but with both cameras its a bit heavy,D850 and the Z8 with 70-200 on one and the 300 on the other. My question I'm getting the running plays easy, but the passing plays, do you pick a receiver and just follow him ? I find that when I try to follow the ball with a 300mm I get lost and its to late, so I think I should be using the 80-200 cause for me it seems easier to find the receiver when focusing??
If I switch from Nikon800 to mirrorless do I have to get all new lenses ?
No. Get the FTZii adapter and all your f-mount lenses will work the same.
Nikon makes the ftz adapter for your f mount lenses..
F-mount lenses work better on my Z9 than they did on my D4S and D850.
Since you used denoise in Lightroom, will you still use topaz denoise on the image after?
Nope, we're done. The Lightroom denoise is very close to Topaz Denoise in quality, in my opinion.
@@JackBeasleyMediadang, I just bought it based on one of your earlier reviews 😂
Never knew exactly how the sharpening masking works, thanks for that!
Also, are you still doing white balance, etc in camera native software or have you switched to Lightroom for those too?
It’s a good product but Topaz is putting it on the back burner in favor of their Photo AI. I haven’t seen an update since Feb.