Desert Oasis vs Palo Verde (NIAA 5A Division III Playoff): I like shooting on this field because of the lighting. Nikon D4 paired with a 300mm 2.8 & 70-200 2.8. Auto white balance Auto...

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

I like shooting on this field because of the lighting.
Nikon D4 paired with a 300mm 2.8 & 70-200 2.8.
Auto white balance
Auto iso (Usually around 10,000)
Pics. cleaned up with Topaz Denoise and Topaz Sharpening.

1/1000 @ 2.8

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pnittoly Loc: Mountainside, New Jersey

Great shots Jules. I especially like the B&W. Thanks for sharing and welcome back ! Paul

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

pnittoly wrote:

Great shots Jules. I especially like the B&W. Thanks for sharing and welcome back ! Paul

Thank you Paul. I really like black white shots too.
When I started out that’s all we had.
Tri-x 400 etc. kids like them too.
Be well
Jules

rickberns Loc: Conroe, Texas

Jules Karney wrote:

I like shooting on this field because of the lighting.
Nikon D4 paired with a 300mm 2.8 & 70-200 2.8.
Auto white balance
Auto iso (Usually around 10,000)
Pics. cleaned up with Topaz Denoise and Topaz Sharpening.

1/1000 @ 2.8

Nice series Jules. The lighting in the stadium was tops for high school! Nailed the action nice and tight and very clean, sharp and vibrant for a night game.. You are superb with your 300mm! I rarely take my 300mm f2.8 to football games, mostly my 400mm f2.8. My 300mm will see some basketball action very soon! Football season is nearly over and time for the winter sports.

Great update!
Rick

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

rickberns wrote:

Nice series Jules. The lighting in the stadium was tops for high school! Nailed the action nice and tight and very clean, sharp and vibrant for a night game.. You are superb with your 300mm! I rarely take my 300mm f2.8 to football games, mostly my 400mm f2.8. My 300mm will see some basketball action very soon! Football season is nearly over and time for the winter sports.

Great update!
Rick

Thanks Rick for the nice words.

I’m getting used to the 300 as I can go anywhere on the sidelines. Like right next to the coaches and nobody ever said move or get out of the way. I am lucky in that respect. Funny thing is the lens focuses faster with the D500 than with the D4. Of course the D4 is a full frame so image quality is tops. The 500 is great also as long as you fill the frame. Very very little cropping.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

Jules Karney wrote:

I like shooting on this field because of the lighting.
Nikon D4 paired with a 300mm 2.8 & 70-200 2.8.
Auto white balance
Auto iso (Usually around 10,000)
Pics. cleaned up with Topaz Denoise and Topaz Sharpening.

1/1000 @ 2.8

Very nice. Glad you are back in the swing of things. Did you make the whole game? I need to start doing some B&W with the rest of my photos. Looked at your gallery on Max, Excellent as always. Thanks BE SAFE!!

Tom

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

tshift wrote:

Very nice. Glad you are back in the swing of things. Did you make the whole game? I need to start doing some B&W with the rest of my photos. Looked at your gallery on Max, Excellent as always. Thanks BE SAFE!!

Tom

I like the b/w also. A lot of players like it too, especially basketball.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Jules Karney wrote:

I like shooting on this field because of the lighting.
Nikon D4 paired with a 300mm 2.8 & 70-200 2.8.
Auto white balance
Auto iso (Usually around 10,000)
Pics. cleaned up with Topaz Denoise and Topaz Sharpening.

1/1000 @ 2.8

Superlative shooting all around 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

rickberns Loc: Conroe, Texas

Jules Karney wrote:

I like the b/w also. A lot of players like it too, especially basketball.

I have had only 1 b&w sell from Maxpreps from my limited exposure of using those sort of photos. I'm adding more but I notice that some of my b&w pictures are bought as color, I'm assuming they have LR, PS or something comparable!

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

rickberns wrote:

I have had only 1 b&w sell from Maxpreps from my limited exposure of using those sort of photos. I'm adding more but I notice that some of my b&w pictures are bought as color, I'm assuming they have LR, PS or something comparable!

Most of my sales are basketball, a few for football but not that many.

rickberns Loc: Conroe, Texas

Jules Karney wrote:

Most of my sales are basketball, a few for football but not that many.

My football sales are my highest out of all the sports over the 3 seasons. Basketball is maybe 10% of my football sells for both boys/girls teams. Way too many photographers at the basketball games giving it for free or at a fraction of what maxpreps charges. Soccer and Baseball are usually prepaid and I usually get sells from the opposing teams. I'll be studying your Basketball images to hopefully crack the drought

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

More of your fine sports work Jules. Who won the game?

Don

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

PAR4DCR wrote:

More of your fine sports work Jules. Who won the game?

Don

Palo Verde goes to the finals