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Re: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos

Subject: Re: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:04:27 -0400
Thanks, but keep in mind you're only seeing 20 out of 70.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


On 4/12/2013 10:19 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Nice work, Chuck.  I never tried soccer photos except with film, in a
> Spotmatic, and had poor results.  You seem to have the technique pretty well
> in hand.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:54 PM
> Subject: [OM] Some OM-D E-M5 action photos
>
>
>> Here's a set of photos of my oldest grandson's soccer game in High
>> Point, North Carolina.  Shot on April 6 on the trip back home from
>> Florida.
>>
>> Unlike the stock car racing shots where I had trouble with the EVF
>> display "tearing" during fast motion I had no such trouble here.
>> Perhaps the action was slower than the race cars but I had also set the
>> EVF this time for faster response.  I also set the IS for horizontal
>> panning which hadn't been done with the cars which might also have been
>> a factor then.
>>
>> The lens used for all shots was the 14-150/4-5.6.  All shots were at ISO
>> 400 and f/5.6 in AV mode with no compensation (hazy light).  There are
>> 20 shots here selected from a total of 70.  Half of the total (35) were
>> shot at 150mm (300mm equiv).  There were 7 focus failures (focus
>> generally somewhere behind on the fans rather than players) and all were
>> at 150mm for a focus failure rate of 20% for motion shots at the long
>> end.  I think that's not too bad considering the fast motion and shallow
>> DoF at 150mm.
>>
>> Every image here has been cropped to some degree, most at about 1/3 to
>> 1/4 of the frame with a few smaller than that.  They have been exposure
>> and shadow/highlight adjusted in ACR as well as given a clarity bump.
>> No other processing in ACR.  All of the images were cropped to 4x6 ratio
>> and resized for possible printing.  No other changes except the slight
>> sharpening applied by BreezeBrowser in resizing the 4x6 images for this
>> web display.
>>
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Alex%27s%20soccer%20game%20-%20Apr%206,%202013/index.htm>
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