Carolina Panthers, Batch 4 & Finished!

Diving for the goalline

I have finished processing the photographs from our training camp visit. Whew! Now I will have to go through the gallery and add titles and comments. I am thinking of posting a "wrap-up" about what I observed and learned from the experience. That will probably appear this weekend or early next week. I have to process out some pictures from a program my son was in tonight. My wife volunteered me to give them a CD and they need it for something this weekend.

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Carolina Panthers, Batch 3

"Toe the line"

Another batch of photos from the Carolina Panther's training camp visit. I've been trying out the batch processing system for shots with the same exposure. I see which shots are from the same play and have the same exposure, then I will make adjustments to the first one, copy those adjustments and apply them to the rest of the set at once. It is very handy for things like this. I will also batch process those photographs to JPEGs all at once to save some more time.

Oops. Forgot the gallery link.

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Carolina Panthers, Batch 2

"Grace"

There are some more photographs from our visit to the Panther's training camp. The one above of the punter is one of my favorites from that day. It was pure luck to get him frozen in the air after the kick like that.

Panther's Training Camp Gallery

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Carolina Panthers, Batch 1

Training Camp

The first batch of photographs that I took from the Carolina Panther's training camp on July 29, 2008 is up on my gallery site. You can find it at this link.

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What I'm working on ...

This afternoon my son and I went to the Carolina Panthers' Training Camp. It is held in our home town and is open to the public. This is the first time that we have gone to it, and we manged to find almost the perfect spot from which to photograph it. I took a lot of pictures. Actually, I filled one 4GB SD card and a good portion of another 4GB SD card. Out of nearly 550 shots, I've narrowed it down to around 180 give or take. I will probably weed a few more out as I take process them in Capture NX2. It might be a day or two before I have them all processed. This is the first NFL, or even American football, event that I have photographed. I'm really quite pleased with what I got. I will try to post them up to my Zenfolio gallery in batches in order to share them with everyone quicker. Now don't go expecting Sports Illustrated quality photography here, but I think I got some good pictures for a rank beginner in this sort of thing.

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Siren

Siren

This photograph was taken at a local event last year where one of the local fire departments brought their engine truck. I liked the chrome reflections and orange color. Details of larger objects can be interesting in themselves and yet still give an overall impression of the object as a whole.

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Caesar's Head

Caesar's Head

There wasn't a Photo of the Day on Friday because I had taken my son on a photography trip up to the mountains. We went to Caesar's Head State Park and stopped at a scenic overlook on the way up. The weather was okay, but there was a nasty cloudbank that had settled over the entire southeastern US. It was bland, white, and all around terrible for landscapes. I did the best that I could in post processing though. A before and after shot from the over look after the jump. The entire gallery is at located at my Zenfolio gallery.

Before

After

I editted the picture in Capture NX2. I applied levels and curves for some contrast, then used several color control points to bring detail to the sky and foreground.

I'll have to go back in the fall or winter when the hazy isn't so bad. The haze really cut the visibility down and even a polarizing filter couldn't get rid of it.


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