I'll probably be posting from the islands, but until then here's a few shots from that soccer game. I whipped these out on the request of The Big A's HR department, which wants to use the soccer team in an internal promotion. It was at least a motivator to shiny up the photos. I just hope I'm not running afoul of the photographer's release I signed by posting them here; the sentence with the word "exclusive" was a little murky.
Sam Power 2, June 8, 2009Georgetown Playfield, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0, 1/640s, ISO 1600
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, Camera Vivid profile
Yes, you have seen this one before. I spent some more time tweaking the colors. I've tried to go for the desaturated/high-contrast/grany-athletic-shot look. In Lightroom I used the settings for this photo as the basis for the others (since they all had the same nasty noise problem), and that worked out pretty well. Then I touched up the skin on each of them with a little color and that really helped.
Into the Turn, June 8, 2009Georgetown Playfield, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0, 1/500s, ISO 1600
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, Camera Vivid profile
Dish It Down, June 8, 2009Georgetown Playfield, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0, 1/500s, ISO 1600
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, Camera Vivid profile
Patience On the Ball, June 8, 2009Georgetown Playfield, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0, 1/500s, ISO 1600
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, Camera Vivid profile
Jon On the Run, June 8, 2009Georgetown Playfield, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0, 1/250s, ISO 3200
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Adobe Photoshop CS4, Camera Vivid profile
This photo required a bit more tweaking than the others. Our badass subject here, Jonathan, is an employee but the two guys in the background are not. HR requires model releases for the photos, which technically isn't a problem but is a pain to arrange. So Photoshop lent a hand with a bit of masking and blurring. Not my best work, but if you don't look to hard it works.
2 comments:
On that last picture the dude on the left looks properly out of focus, but the dude on the left looks more like he has the old TV ghosting thing going on.
Oops, I that second "left" should have been "right"...
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