More CC Volleyball (Custom WB)

[DHMN69]

Back to the orange gym for more white balance hell.. difference this time, they wore their black uniforms instead of the orange I posted from Monday night... I did a custom white balance shooting some white 'card stock' off the floor this time. They lost in 3 straight games without getting to 15 points themselves.. match lasted 50 minutes.. not a great photo op. I think the WB is better but probably under-exposed this time, I might go down to 1/640 next time rather than 1/800 from tonight

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3. Pretty much sums up the match.. the other team had height and athleticism compared to very little.


4. Not a great photo, nor straighened, but a shot to really show what the orange mats all around the gym do for WB and the floor

[fidgety]

What ISO are you at and what noise reduction software did you use?

[DHMN69]

ISO 3200 and Neat Image at around 40% luminance and chrominance settings..seems to at least minimize a little the plastic look of noise reduction.. probably could go lower on the settings still

[DHMN69]

Shot the D2 team (Minnesota-Duluth) at ISO 2500 and 1/800 and used 30% Neat Image on Tuesday night.. much different game also

Somehow I got the players I wanted in focus while the two defenders aren't so much in the first two

[fidgety]

ISO 3200 and Neat Image at around 40% luminance and chrominance settings..seems to at least minimize a little the plastic look of noise reduction.. probably could go lower on the settings still

I just found out about Neat Image and have been messing around with it and thought your snaps looked like they were run through the program so I wanted to get your settings so I could start tweaking mine.

Thanks.

[DHMN69]

I guess the white balance on the orange gym shots looks better than the thread from Monday.. since it wasn't even mentioned ...

[fidgety]

Any idea how to batch process a large number of photos through neat Image so I don;t have to do one at a time?

[DHMN69]

I haven't looked into doing batch editing yet.. but click help and go to their community forum.. there should be plenty of answers there.. I still do each one individually.. takes 3 or 4 seconds each but if you're doing a huge number obviously it would be advantageous to do it that way.