Calgary Rampage CXBL Tryouts

[amish_rabbi]

shooting indoor sucks

[Playonpics]

They look good, however the white balance seems off on a few.
Also i would try not to cut off piece of the arm like the guys elbow in the snake and similar to the last photo of the HEAD lol
And my last critic is try to keep the horizons straight... I know its sometimes hard to do, but it helps the photo alot (i find i can't always get this, or forget about it)

Besides that, the photos are bright and vivid. Which is great. Espeically for indoor paintball..
The shot #6 is really cool. need to see the one guy sharp and the other 2 in a blur.

[amish_rabbi]

yea im still tweaking the white balance on a few of them, sometimes only way ill notice it is off is by uploading it and going "yea ok thats wrong, what was i thinking there"

#8 i purposely threw the horizon off, i liked the perspective it gave me. but the others ill tweak and see how fixing the bit of horizon angle effects the crop

#6 seems to be a love hate with people, i think the blur is great, others think the blur isnt

[Playonpics]

Ya but the white balance should be something that is set on site... Mind you there are the extreme cases. But i would use a white card to make a custom white balance next time.
Also i was thinking theses were right from the camera. Since they aren't, i would recommend cropping some... way too much dead space in some.

As for the horizon that was "purposely" thrown off, i think you should go to a straight horizon. Doing a slit turn like that isn't doing much. I could understand if you rotate it more i could understand. But its just not enough to show it was "purposely" done.

I keep seeing that Head photo, and i hate it alittle more each time... Not sure why you cropped it this way... seems odd.

Originally Posted by amish_rabbi

yea im still tweaking the white balance on a few of them, sometimes only way ill notice it is off is by uploading it and going "yea ok thats wrong, what was i thinking there"

#8 i purposely threw the horizon off, i liked the perspective it gave me. but the others ill tweak and see how fixing the bit of horizon angle effects the crop

#6 seems to be a love hate with people, i think the blur is great, others think the blur isnt

[amish_rabbi]

i did shoot a white card for a custom white balance, but they have different lights/bulbs depending on where you are standing so a different color is cast (thats what happens with stuff is just replaced with whatever they find available)

almost same shot, just with a straight horizon (and a less quality host)


the head one is actually straight from camera lol

the only plus ive found from shooting indoor is that no one is wearing tinted or mirrored masks (actually one guy was, he's nuts) so you get the player's eyes in the pics

[Playonpics]

I would have cropped it landscape style
Portrait size is just too odd, too much dead space... Your doing sports, not portraits or anything style lol

[amish_rabbi]

i dont know, i like having dead space because it directs the eye to the player, or you look at the players eyes and the dead space shows where they are looking and it gives more of a sense where the player is on the field

yea it is a more stylized approach than the usual super tight crops, and more story teller style than just trying to show "holy crap action!"

just two ways of looking at the photos i guess lol

[Playonpics]

See but i'm thrown off by that statement from you, becuase look at the shot you have sooo incredibly tight for the guy with the glasses on... All you see is his head... What is that telling for a photo?

[amish_rabbi]

i see your point, ill pay more attention in the next batch to cropping them tighter and post the results

but then again you did use a photo you said you hate as an example of close cropping, which you prefer to wider crops lol