tom kf4wol

Sharing a couple of My attempts from Tuesday evening, 2/18/20

Photos were taken right at Sunset with a very bright pinkest beautiful Sunset.

Auto Color Balance, 1/1000 Sec, F2.8 ISO 4000, Nikon D3s with Nikor 70-200mm f2.8 lens.

Tom

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tramsey Loc: Texas

I like both shots. The first has good composition and focus. The only thing that takes away from it is the sun shining through the trees. Down load Fast Stone Image Viewer and you can take that out in about a nanosecond. Excellent work.

SHe appears to be the same girl in both shots, a relative?

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Tom: These two shot are great. I love the lighting, sharpness, colors. Really nice work, put a frame around them.

tomcat

These are great action shots with perfect timing for the ball at the glove. Try the Sigma 135mm Art lens and see what you think. I use it a lot on my D3s for twilight stuff because it’s an f/1.8 and sharper than my 70-200! Glad to see you’re still using the D3s—never been another camera that can deliver like this one in low light

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Very good action!

Cookie223 Loc: New Jersey

I think they're great!

tom kf4wol

Thanks to everyone for Your Comments.

I enjoy trying to take Local School Sports, always something new to learn.

Every Sports Field or Gym the lighting is different, and Color Balance always seems to be
My greatest foe.

I also appreciate critique's, If We all keep an open mind, and accept others comments. I believe it helps all of us to learn, enjoy our Hobbies, and Life.

Have a nice day, and a good weekend.

Tom

tomcat

If you are in gyms or soccer fields that have quartz halogen lighting, there's nothing you can do about the color balance, except to set for Auto. Those lights cycle constantly between the green mercury and the orange sodium filaments and depending upon the fps you shoot at, you can get either color one right behind the other. The flicker setting does not help this. I generally pick out the best green tint and use that one to correct. The orange tint seems underexposed--even though it's a nano-second behind the green one and an awful color to correct. Google this and you'll get all the info you need to know--no solutions, but the reasons why anyway.

jlocke Loc: Austin, TX

I didn't know that. Maybe that explains the lighting in one of the hockey rinks I sometimes shoot in. Most of the photos seem to have an overall green cast, but some of them show a shading toward pink in the whites. I've wondered why it seems so inconsistent.

The shots above are great. Very sharp and the timing was spot on!

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Thanks for this!! I just posted yesterday regarding this phenomenon (Color shift) & this undoubtedly explains what I encountered.

tomcat

It surprised me the first time it happened during a soccer game a few years ago. I changed WB settings all night before I realized it could be the lights. And sure enough, Goggle had several discussions on this phenomenon. Our eyes don't detect these color shifts because the filaments are cycling so fast, but since I got a Z6 this past Fall, I can now actually see the shifts in the viewfinder. It's funny and I call it my "lightning bug" app...When I was shooting the D3s, I couldn't see it in the viewfinder because the light was bouncing off the mirror and the view was the same as looking at the field. But since the mirrorless viewfinder is the actual image, I can see the color balance shifting from green to pinky oranges when I am shooting continuous high speed. I asked the tech folks at Singh-Ray to develop a filter for this.