Jujitsu Photos Finally finished.

Below is a link to my finished jujitsu photograph set , several are in mono as the colour was so poor.Please let me know what you think






Enjoy!!,

Duroo.

did you shoot raw?
surely there is something in the frame you can use to set your white balance...
hint: white works.

in weddings, karate, and jujtisu, there's always a white dress or ghi.....

I'm intrigued by the "ghi...."

G

hi don,

No i was shooting in jpeg , yes! ive since read the manual on setting the white balance manually. Wednesdays session was a fact finding mission for me and a learnt a little bit more. Ill go back maybe in a week or two with the wb set correctly and try to bring the iso down a tad as the poor quality meant i had to convert to mono - if i shot in raw at iso 1600 would there be less noticeable noise and banding , i did my best in paintshop pro!
Ive got a copy of Silky pix Don - do i need to tell the application im using the k10 or will it auto detect which camera i have? What are your best practices for this program?

Cheers.

Silkypix detects the camera automatically (provided it is a supported camera).

Having suggested you use a piece of white paper to set colour balance, I realise that I have never needed to with the K10D. I use a pre-set, and if it is not quite right, I find that I can do whatever adjustments I need very quickly in SP.

As somebody mentioned, there is usually something white in a scene.

I find that outdoors Auto-WB seems to work fine almost always, but indoors can be more problematical, especially if there is a mixture of light sources. Usually, I use flash indoors, which has a pre-set, but sunlight mixed with tungsten is sometimes a challenge.

G

Well George, those funny looking white pyjamas the maritial arts guys wear, often called ghi's.

Learn something everyday. Knowing you as I do, I thought you meant something more exotic!

G

What did you expect? Have you not read any of the past advice to just about everybody who has joined here that THE BEST chance you have of recovering photo's shot in challenging conditions, is to shoot RAW.

Nice set though, you've done the best you could with JPG.

Now, set your camera to RAW, and move up a gear . . . JPG's are for P&S cameras, which yours most certainly is not.

Others here will champion JPG, RAW is better, much better. It just takes a little longer to get the best results. Any RAW processor can produce the same quality JPG's as your camera can . . . in a flash.

Devil's Advocate:
Use jpeg if it works for ya. Its faster and smaller and takes less of your time. But you need to be spot on with exposure and white balance to begin with.

On the RAW side:
Processing RAW doesn't take that long, especially compared to the time it takes to "fix" jpegs. Disk space is cheap. Processing RAW generally gives a better final jpeg image than the camera's default modes.

Try JPG+RAW for a while. After a few months of shooting both, I now shoot RAW only. I find I don't need PhotoShop for most of my images any more... SilkyPix does at least 80%-90% of the work I ever need to do onmost of my photos.

99.9% - 100% in my case. And once you get into the swing of it, it's faster than using some editing program to improve JPEGs.

I would definitely use a proper editor if I was doing b&w work, though.

G

PS: I was tinkering with Lightbox recently. Not bad.

Ok me thinks i may try a mix of jpeg and raw next week and process both through silky pix.
As ive not used silky pix that much what are the regular festures you use to process your photos ie a short list of minimum features you use?

Well George glad to help. I used to study maritial arts.
I used to know quite a few Japanese words back then. Nowadays, I can't even order food off the menu at a Japanese restaurant, without getting slapped, by a waitress.

That is another one of those questions with an answer that varies a lot on what you're doing.

But generally I follow the controls from the top down. SilkyPix is pretty well laid out in that way, as I guess, other such tools generally are.

Exposure, white balance are the biggies of course.
I almost always add a bit of contrast and sharpening and have set those as defaults.

ok cheers.

As an alternative to the 50mm f1.4 to capture martial arts and boxing events i have one other lens in mind - the Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) does anyone have any experience of this lens?

Restaurants all have their different ways to entice customers to keep coming back.

G