Sports Pictures: I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products? how much do they cost ? DelRae...

DelRae Loc: Oregon

I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products?
how much do they cost ? DelRae

rcorne001 Loc: Cary, NC

I use LRC for editing color adjustment, cropping - but no noise or sharpening work. For that I use Topaz products as appropriate. You can see some of my images in the Sports Photography section of UHH.

More importantly though- if you explain what you mean by "hard time", you will more likely than not, get better responses.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

DelRae wrote:

I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products?
how much do they cost ? DelRae

Rick is right DelRae. More info needed. I think everyone has a hard time with all sports especially indoor sports photos. For indoor the speed/action, the bodies to shoot through, and the bad lighting in most high school gyms. Thanks keep at it, we all had to go through it but practice, practice, practice will make a ton of difference in your photos. Thanks BE SAFE!!

Tom

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

DelRae wrote:

I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products?
how much do they cost ? DelRae

One more thing. I use Lightroom Classic which come with Photoshop also to me is well worth the $9.00/month or whatever it is. I also purchased and use Topaz Photo AI. It was on special and I got for I think it was $135.00 with discounts. To me Topaz is the greatest thing going. I am still learning how to use it. Topaz has made it possible for me to keep most of my photos now. Before Topaz I had to delete a ton of my photos. Now I can actually keep most of them. I shoot for MaxPreps.com. Even with their super strict guide lines for sharpness, focus etc. Topaz has helped me get most of my photos pass that and put all my photos in my galleries on Max. Even if I had payed the higher original price it was well worth it and I would have still been very happy with purchase. Thanks BE SAFE!!

Tom

DelRae Loc: Oregon

DelRae wrote:

I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products?
how much do they cost ? you don't have to tell me how much they cost DelRae

Thank you Rick and thank you Tom and Jules and Paul you guys made me feel better I understand what you was saying I will put what I use Picasa 3 it really don't help sometime I get some bad color and Blurry and Grainy pictures. I don't use my camera much anymore I have been thinking about getting back in to pictures so I went to the girls and guys game last wed here are some pictures of the game. shot with ISO Auto TV different Shutter speed canon 5D mark IV EF 70-200 2.8 IS II and EF 24-105 II USM. and I was also told to shot tight and shot low on the floor next game I will shot low by the basket on floor but let you know it is dark under there I was also told to try Manual around 1/800-1/1000 at 2.8 or wide open be very glad to hear from you guys Thanks DelRae

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pnittoly Loc: Mountainside, New Jersey

These are good DelRae. Indoor lighting is difficult. As Jules preaches, and he’s the professor, fill the frame and capture the faces. Practice, practice, practice like Tom said.
Best regards, Paul

DelRae Loc: Oregon

pnittoly wrote:

These are good DelRae. Indoor lighting is difficult. As Jules preaches, and he’s the professor, fill the frame and capture the faces. Practice, practice, practice like Tom said.
Best regards, Paul

Thank you so much Paul I will do what the guys said to do ya it was nice to hear from them good group of guys have a good day tommorow.

rcorne001 Loc: Cary, NC

DelRae wrote:

Thank you so much Paul I will do what the guys said to do ya it was nice to hear from them good group of guys have a good day tommorow.

I don't think you are that far away from addressing your concerns. I hope you don't mind, but I grabbed one of your photos and tweaked it a bit. Nothing too elaborate, and if I were going to really run with it, I would play around a little more. Today I took about 5 minutes and just did a bit of the following:

-Brightened it up a bit (probably could use some more)
-Cropped it a little
-Ran it through Topaz Sharpen using the program's default/auto settings

I believe once you are comfortable with lighting and noise reduction you will then be able to play around with composition. Things like cropping, filling the frame, etc.

Topaz allows a trial period of all of their products. Personally I favor Denoise and Sharpen. Denoise when I really have to crank up the ISO to address lighting and Sharpen when lighting is fine and I just want it a hair sharper. But you can download them and see if they fit what you want to do. Today I actually used a free photo viewer, Faststone, to brighten and crop this photo. Normally I use Lightroom.

DelRae Loc: Oregon

rcorne001 wrote:

I don't think you are that far away from addressin... (show quote)

yes that does look better thank you I have only used picasa 3 and it is old not that good. I will try and check out some Program's maybe they will have some on YouTube ?? DelRae

DelRae Loc: Oregon

rcorne001 wrote:

I use LRC for editing color adjustment, cropping - but no noise or sharpening work. For that I use Topaz products as appropriate. You can see some of my images in the Sports Photography section of UHH.

More importantly though- if you explain what you mean by "hard time", you will more likely than not, get better responses.

Thank you very much for your help DelRae

DelRae Loc: Oregon

pnittoly wrote:

These are good DelRae. Indoor lighting is difficult. As Jules preaches, and he’s the professor, fill the frame and capture the faces. Practice, practice, practice like Tom said.
Best regards, Paul

Thanks you DelRae

DelRae Loc: Oregon

DelRae wrote:

I am having a hard time with my sport pictures (What do you use for editing? Lightroom or Photoshop Do you use Topaz products?
how much do they cost ? DelRae

Thanks every one got some good advice DelRae

DelRae Loc: Oregon

DelRae wrote:

Thank you very much for your help Everyone DelRae

rickberns Loc: Conroe, Texas

DelRae wrote:

Thank you Rick and thank you Tom and Jules and Pau... (show quote)

DelRae,

I thought I would chime in here (I don't do it very much lately). Everyone here has given you great advice, which I follow to the T in my own sports photography! The best advice I could emphasize is shooting "tight", like very tight when action is right at your doorstep or using a long prime (i.e. 300mm for basketball). Most of my examples here are shot with a 70-200mm mk3 lens (using Canon R6 body) and a 300mm mk2 lens. Shutter is 1/1000s @ f2.8. With the crappy lighting of gymnasium I shot at for these examples, my 'auto' ISO (I dialed in a range from 100 to 12800) was always around 10000 to 12800 (mostly the later). I use in camera noise reduction shooting jpg. Post processing is lightroom (LR) and at times I send an image off to Topaz (from LR) to clean up the motion blur/noise or further sharpening. These examples are not perfect by any means, but they show high iso images can be salvaged by shooting very tight, with near 'zero' cropping! You can personally thank Jules for me adding the black and white, kind of old school!

Rick

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DelRae Loc: Oregon

rickberns wrote:

DelRae, br br I thought I would chime in here (I ... (show quote)

Thank you so much I did get a lot of great Advice's ya even Jules can do great black and white I like them also your also DelRae