A good badminton photo

**AChan** · 01-26-2011, 10:13 AM

[QUOTE=Johansen;1610878]
Good pictures!!

**Johansen** · 01-27-2011, 01:12 PM

Thanks

rgs
Johansen

**demolidor** · 01-27-2011, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Johansen

Hi Demolidor
I am impressed that you remember way back to my pentax days. It is a while ago.
And I must say that i totally agree that Kwun is a excellent shooter.
I didn't mention raw files. That was a mistake. You have to take pictures in Raw, it is essential, so that you can correct any mistakes.
I don't think smash shots is the key to good pictures.
But a good variety of shots from all angles is the way.
I personally like these kind of shots. All taken with 300mm f2.8.

Attachment 89980.
Iso 3200, f2.8, 1/500, 300mm
Attachment 89979
Iso 1600, f2.8, 1/400, 300mm
Attachment 89978
Iso 1600, f3.2,, 1/320, 300mm

Haha, nice selection. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo I don't feel having the shuttle in frame here has much too add does it? Maybe if practically frozen(?). And of course you are right a smash shot is not necessary for a good pic but for an action shot next to dives is there anything more spectacular?

***Cheung*** · 01-28-2011, 06:16 AM

Johansen, do you find the 24-70 useful? I find it is rather slow focussing. What's your impression? Do you use it much?

**Johansen** · 01-28-2011, 02:35 PM

Thank you demolidor for your nice words.

Originally Posted by demolidor

I don't feel having the shuttle in frame here has much too add does it?

Yes, I still think it has. I believe that I will have deleted the photos if the shuttle was not there.

Originally Posted by demolidor

And of course you are right a smash shot is not necessary for a good pic but for an action shot next to dives is there anything more spectacular?

Shure it is spectacular, but the comercial interest of smash shots are very little. There are almost no demands on smash shots.

Best Regards
Johansen
www.badminton-nyt.dk
www.fjerbolden.dk

**Johansen** · 01-28-2011, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Cheung

Johansen, do you find the 24-70 useful? I find it is rather slow focussing. What's your impression? Do you use it much?

Hi Cheung.
You are right. It is a little slow in focussing. But if I am close to the court I use it. Far the most photos I take is with my 70-200 F2.8 II.
What do you use close to court?

This kind of shots I use it for:
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iso 3200, f2.8, 1/320, MarkIV with 24-70 f2.8

Best Regards
Johansen
www.badminton-nyt.dk
www.fjerbolden.dk

**demolidor** · 02-05-2011, 10:47 AM

Too high ISO? Cellphone pics look better these days ...

Model: NIKON D7000
ISO: 5000
Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 1.8
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No
Latitude: n/a
Longitude: n/a

Or shitty post-processing, too much compression: 1024×732 pixels – 86KB?

Another one (same settings):

**demolidor** · 02-05-2011, 10:54 AM

Let's keep it on the post-processing

Model: NIKON D7000
ISO: 1000
Exposure: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No
Latitude: n/a
Longitude: n/a

**ctjcad** · 02-05-2011, 12:36 PM

demolidor,
my only tip in doing post processing is try not to resize the original picture (if possible, don't do it at all, unless one doesn't really care abt the quality of the final photo), esp. if it was taken in RAW format. Just crop & focus on the area you want to keep/show.

**demolidor** · 02-05-2011, 01:27 PM

Obviously this is not my work

I was just amazed a D7000 could produce this cellphone quality

since that might be the camera I'm going for ...

**ctjcad** · 02-05-2011, 05:18 PM

cellphone quality? as in what characteristic(s)? color? blurryness? exposure?..

**demolidor** · 02-06-2011, 07:26 AM

Compression artificating with a touch of softness filter to make it presentable? Colours and exposure don't look. Look like they had the cellphone postprocessing treatment and/or taken with a 50 cent lens...
You can just go the website on the pics and choose the gallery of the currently held English National Championships

Having a hard time choosing the worst of the bunch

Should probably move to the D7000 thread by now

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Interestingly it's from the same person/persons as posted before in the AE2010 picture thread only then it was a D80 and look better at roughly the same dimension and filesize.

***Cheung*** · 02-10-2011, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Johansen

Hi Cheung.
You are right. It is a little slow in focussing. But if I am close to the court I use it. Far the most photos I take is with my 70-200 F2.8 II.
What do you use close to court?

Best Regards
Johansen
www.badminton-nyt.dk
www.fjerbolden.dk

Mainly using primes: 50/1.4 or 35/1.4. Not very satisfactory.

***Cheung*** · 02-10-2011, 09:06 PM

Demolidor, I think the poor quality is due to lack of light. Needed to open up the aperture to 1.8 so the quality will be so so. Depth of field will be very small so OOF shot is more likely.

We don't know how far away the photographer was. I would guess quite far away and the image has had to be cropped quite a lot again affecting quality.

***kwun*** · 02-10-2011, 09:10 PM

demolidor, can you stop posting those nationalbadmintonchamp.co.uk photos? they are so bad they hurt my eyes!!

***Cheung*** · 02-10-2011, 09:22 PM

It would be interesting to compare the D70 pics to those.

But really, this thread is more concerned about what goes into the picture rather than the equipment.