Sports Photography Critiques for On Peter Read Miller on Sports Photography - GFCrew Edition
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2019
- Today, Peter once again critiques photos submitted by GFCrew member photographers. Please subscribe, share, comment and like the video and let us know your questions.
Peter Read Miller has been photographing athletes, events and the sporting life for more than 40 years. He is has worked as a staff and contract photographer for Sports Illustrated for more than 35 years. His images have appeared on over 150 Sports Illustrated covers.
His editorial clients have included: Time, Life, People, Money, The Associated Press, Playboy, Runner’s World, Newsweek, USA Weekend and The New York Times. In addition to covering 9 Olympic Games and 40 Super Bowls, Peter has shot 14 NBA Finals. He has covered the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Basketball Final Four, and the Men’s and Women’s World Cup Soccer Finals.
Peter Read Miller's workshops allow you to photograph Oakland A's baseball, the Tennessee Volunteers, and much more, all with top of the line cameras and lenses by Canon USA. The workshop is sponsored by Canon, Western Digital, ThinkTank, Dynalite and Hoodman. www.peterreadmiller.com/worksh...
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Love how you give brutally honest critiques, no sugar coating. One can only hope the photographers on the receiving end can take it as constructive feedback. I also read other comments below asking or critiques for non GFCrew people to which you replied with an email address, so I'll send a few myself. Thanks Peter!
Thank you Peter!
I like that you were more critical this time. I never learned anything from "great shot" comments. Your critique was spot on this time. Particularly on those who over process.... story trumps technical smoothness all the time. I'll take a little noise over a technically perfect shot of nothing.
Couldn't agree more. An honest critique is what people need to get better.
This is awesome, thanks for putting this together!
I would love to know more about the extent that you would edit an image for supplying news agencies and also whether there are standard crop sizes used or do you free crop as seen in your critiques?
It would be interesting to see before and leading into or out of the shot submissions/analysis.
I have some tips for night time sports that I learned from experience. Shoot in Tv mode. Put it in 1/640 shutter speed. Use Auto iso. Put exposure compensation on negative 1.7 or negative 1.3. (make sure its regular exposure compensation not flash exposure compensation.) That will help the iso go lower. You really dont want to be in 12800. Put it in auto iso and do the things i mentioned to get the camera to lower the iso or put it in manual and use 3200-10000. If your camera doesnt have 1/3 stop iso and just jumps from 3200-6400-12800 then put it in auto iso and it will maybe choose 1/3 stops. it does this on the canon 77D. Dont crop too tight, it reveals the pixelation in the noise. Try to get the best framing in camera. Use a longer lens. Use a full frame camera. Get closer to the action. When you edit, its ok to hit auto settings but it will raise up the shadows too much. Lower the shadows back down to hide some of the noise. That is my preferred auto settings so I dont have to think about settings. If you like manual then do 1/640, iso 6400, lowest f stop, exposure compensation negative 1.7. The exposure compensation is a trick i learned with low light sports but only for outdoors, gyms are way different. It helps the brights not be too bright and crushes the shadows better the way you want them. And put the camera in center weighted average metering. It just makes the pictures look better. high iso noise reduction level 1. auto lighting optimizer normal, level 2. those settings will give you the best in camera "post processing" which is better if you do jpegs because the camera is processing the raw file in camera so its better to tell it to do something with the file then, rather than later. picture style, neutral with the sharpness bumped 1 or two notches.
1/640 will not freeze the action, unless you're photographing kids. If you're photographing adults, I'd go at least 1/1000. Go manual, don't let your camera control the aperture. Go wide open. As for ISO, you can leave it on auto. The important thing here is that you'll likely to have motion blur with 1/640. You can fix or at least reduce noise in a picture, but you cannot fix motion blur.
@@MLeeMedia I would also recommend looking for moments where action is frozen or less fast. Like when a quarterback goes to throw a ball when he's wound back rather than launching it forward. Looks like a better pose too. That way it can be a slower shutter speed. And I learned that with runners, 500 is the most you need and football is mostly running so 640 is good. Maybe 800. But for me the most important thing is lowering the iso and getting high quality pictures. I found that trying to photograph fast moving action results in bad pictures most of the time anyway so I abandoned that and just go for cool poses and celebrations. "Jube" as Peter Reed Miller would call it. Pro games are "lit for television" so they can use faster shutter speeds. High school is way different and way more difficult. No one is using super expensive lenses and all the extended lenses are really slow unless they're really expensive. Seems like they should be using the pro lenses for high school games and slow lenses for pro games but reality is the opposite. Slow lenses for low lit games and fast lenses for well lit games.
Can we submit photos for review if not part of GFcrew?
absolutely - just email jpg images to info@manhattanbeachstudios.net. thanks Don!
Are critiques also open to the public?
absolutely - just email jpg images to info@manhattanbeachstudios.net. thanks Josh!
@@PeterReadMiller Fantastic.