Cropping and Horizons. The two most essential editing steps. Sports Photography
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- Cropping and Horizons. The two most essential editing steps. Sports Photography
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Great call out about using the vertical lines to straighten the image. So many photographers focus on the horizon and forget that our brains expect vertical objects such as goal posts / door frames / wall columns to be straight that images feel awkward when you don't correct them.
Thank you for the video Mark, some excellent tips this week, can't wait for your "what's in my bag" video, cheers, Pete.👍
With regard to cropping images for impact I can highly recommend a book called "Pictures on a Page" by Harold Evans. It's a book from the era of B/W newspapers and I believe the author was the picture editor of the Sunday Times.
Whilst photography has gone through massive technical changes, composition of images hasn't changed much. This book was a revelation to me and taught me a huge amount. Well worth a read.
As for horizons, horizontal lines (seats, roofs, railings, hoardings etc) can vary greatly depending on the angle at which the image was taken so my general rule is to use a vertical line from a building.
Yes, yes, yes. You can set the 3x3 grid to show in the EVF, similar to what Mark shows in the examples. That will train you a bit, but it's only about 1 out of 50 shots that I don't rotate back to true square. Might only be 0.25 to 3 degrees, but it won't ring true if it's not square. You're hand is not steady enough to hit it most of the time and your eye will get more demanding as time goes on.
BTW: "horizons" in this case means verticals. Unless you are flat-on 90-degree, full perpendicular to a flat plane in front of you ... perspective is going to distort your horizontals. Really great shots; great instincts as usual. Very helpful to see your cropping choices on the R3. Your crop-limits on the R3 ring true to what I've found over time but it's reassuring to get a read from a true professional. 17:12 Beautiful panning shot. Absolutely beautiful. Nerves of steel! Thanks for sharing this.
Dumb Question: I've assumed I need to send 2x3 format or sometimes 1x1. You are absolutely not shy about letting the composition dictate the proportions of the frame. So it sounds like you're getting no push-back from the editors/page-layout people. Is that right? I guess they're really just thinking in terms of 2-column, 3-column etc. and they crop the height to fit the final length of the text, but I've always assumed I needed to send 2x3's and squares. So you don't get any push-back for setting the proportions as needed?
Shot my first ever sports game yesterday mark, some great tips helped me. Of course I'm no where near your level but the 70-200 works great for rugby!
I tend to straighten to the verticals rather than the horizontals...
Thank you for another great video. I would love to know more about how you set your white balance.
Really good, thanks. I use DXO Photolab and use a preset which automatically adjusts the horizon. It gets it right 9 times out of 10 without me having to worry about it. I like the idea of having space for people to look into or move into. I try and do this but it was great seeing that there is sometimes no one right way of doing it and everything is a juggling act. Great video again, thanks.
Nice one Mark, good call there re horizons, verticals and cropping, applies to all genres of photography really and one which is easily forgotten if your busy fixing other issues with the image..Also its funny as I watch this I know about what happened and the controversy in the Derby game and the goals..fingers crossed you were at the right end to capture all that action!..
Ha, Norwich certainly got away with one yesterday Martin! I was the right end but unfortunately wrong side of the goal! Sainz did run my way luckily for the celebrations but missed the controversial ball over the line shot unfortunately!
Thanks for watching, mate 👍🏻
agree, horizons drive me crazy when they are not straight
Great video, as usual Mark. My only comment is that the Team I shoot for play on a surface that is curved (to put it mildly). The centre of the pitch is around a foot higher than the touchline so I always line up the verticals rather than try to level the horizon. Keep up the videos, always watch them with interest!
Amazing videos talking from real world experience helps alot in my own shooting
👍 Hi Guys 👍
😁 I watched loads of yoir videos before starting Sports Photography. Thank you.
Thanks for these videos. I've been watching for the past week and I'm going to be shooting my first match tomorrow. I only have prime lenses for the moment but I'm hopeful that I can get some decent photos.
Ah best of luck with tomorrow’s game. Do let us know how you get on.👍🏻
When you crop, do you try and maintain standard aspect ratios (1:1, 3:4 etc), or do you just crop to random ratios to suit the image?
Hi, congratulations on the videos.
Could you clear my doubts, please?
Do you have an alternative to Photo Machanic or Bridge for Ipad? I want to stop taking my notebook to games for reasons of weight and space, but I haven't found alternatives for these programs yet.
Forest v Fulham for me Mark.
Have a good’n Jon. You coming over for nights at Waddo next week?
I have a lot of mates who only shoot motorcycle racing and they are forever tipping bikes every angle other than the natural angle the bike and rider were at when the photo was taken. It does my head in. Whilst some of them do add a bit of impact to the image, its often over done and looks totally unnatural.
Still no 4k :/
Tried it - it killed my Mac! Editing was an absolute nightmare! Plus hard drive storage and everything else that goes with it unfortunately.