Comments on: How To Approach Action Sports Photography

By: Bobbi Jensen

Bobbi Jensen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:17:00 +0000

How do you prefocus?

By: Tiago Miguel Costa

Tiago Miguel Costa — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:01:00 +0000

another culture… http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.343924398957462.100313.342436252439610&type=3

By: Tanner Yeager

Tanner Yeager — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:34:00 +0000

The comments on this post really ticked me off. This site seems to have
to many people who are negative and critique but yet those who critique
rarely ever produce. I believe those who are truly gifted walk softly
and carry a big stick, not speak about how poorly everyone else is.

By: Tanner Yeager

Tanner Yeager — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:33:00 +0000

By: Chris Bartkowski

Chris Bartkowski — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:38:00 +0000

Being a Action Sports Photographer as well, I’d love to see your workflow in lightroom/photoshop. Your end resulting images look gorgeous!

By: tonyc0101

tonyc0101 — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:03:00 +0000

I’m glad that you mentioned not being afraid to using high ISO’s at night, but it isn’t a bad idea for daytime shots as well. I accidentally found that when shooting in broad daylight, exposure comping up causes the camera to use a higher auto ISO when in AV mode. The accidental part of that is that it exposes detail in the darker areas, especially if I’m shooting on the shadow-side of the players, which in turn makes it very easy to balance the contrast more effectively in post.

By: Jon-Mark Wiltshire

Jon-Mark Wiltshire — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:01:00 +0000

Great post Thomas, very impressed by what you’re able to do with minimal gear. Well done.

By: Justin Knotzke

Justin Knotzke — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:45:00 +0000

This quote has me very confused: “I do this because once in photoshop I will open the image, make my adjustments in raw, open the image, then re-open it in raw add about a full stop on the exposure slider and open it. Then I will take the two images and blend them together using layer masks. For post work I do a lot of dodging and burning and selective color adjustments. I also open a B&W layer and turn it to soft light. Use layers mask to fine tune your layer adjustments and really get the most out of your image.”

Can someone explain what is being referred to here ? “Open the image, then re-open it in raw, add about a full stop and open it”

Thanks

By: Thomas Ingersoll

Thomas Ingersoll — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:21:00 +0000

Although I agree that you should not rely on photoshop to “save” you, For the style of shooting I do spending an hour on an image in ps is worth it

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:04:00 +0000

I agree that you can sometimes get away with a few tweaks and post is not a bad thing at all. I would say, if anyone is just getting started and they think they might want to submit to magazines, contact their photo editor. Get a list of guidelines of what they are looking for, how much you can edit or if you can edit, and how their submission process works. Most of the companies I submit to, I’m not really allowed to do any tweaks other than cropping. But even then, I have to submit the cropped and original of the image and explain why I cropped. Relying on post is just a bad habit if you have to deal with companies that strict.