Evergreen vs. Kelso: 01-07-2010
Despite being years upon years older, the Evergreen High School gym has a good stop and a half of light on the Heritage gym. This meant that I could go down to iso 2200, which meant no need for noise reduction, and that I could move my shutter to 1/500th, which despite what I said last time, really does make a difference.
Thanks to the extra light, I’m much happier with how things turned out today, and I’m really looking forward to picking up a nice long 2.8 zoom this month (still really unsure on whether I want the Pentax 50-135 or the Tamron 70-200. I’ve heard bad QA things about the Pentax, but I’m a fan of weather sealing and metal construction. I also like long length though. Quite the pickle.)
Evergreen won 64-56, though Kelso could have pulled it out if not for the string of fouls in the last quarter.
Favorite Shots:
A quick bit on white balance. I mentioned last time my use of my new Rite-X Colorchecker Passport to set my color for the shots. Making sure you’ve got accurate color in your photos is huge (unless you’re intention is to let color shifts in). In something like sports, you want it right, and “close enough” is no good.
As an example, here’s an image from above, with four different white balances:
As you can see, the first frame shows exactly what color the lights in the gym are. Ugly, Ugly, Ugly, Ugly, Green. These sodium vapor lights are all completely different from eachother, and there’s no way to really guarantee accuracy without a real system for white balance.
The bottom frame is lightroom’s fluorescent preset. Not even close.
The second frame is using the eye dropper tool to select one of the white jersey’s as a reference point for white balance. It’s getting closer, but there’s still a definite green cast.
The third frame is the one that you see originally posted. Color as given to me by the x-rite colorchecker software, and it’s exactly what I saw as I was shooting the game.
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