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Track and Field

Dolphurs Hayes – Pole Vaulter

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Jul 032011
 

Pole Vaulter, Dolphurs Hayes. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 150mm. Image exposed at ISO 200 at f2.8 for 1/500th of a second.

Well as promised I am posting some new images from my pole vault shoot. As I mentioned in the last post the process of photographing these incredible athletes has been a lot of fun. Going from the relative stillness of the great southwest to such a high octane shooting event has required a total shift in gears for me. In general I reset my camera menus for autofocus so I could quickly dial in to the athletes. I shot all the images with a fast, f2.8, 70-200mm Nikon lens which put a premium on my hand holding abilities since I was just a bit out of practice. The location was in an area with tall pine trees that provided some light filtration. I generally shot at f2.8 to help soften the background and achieve a dappled bokah. There was a lot of activity and I had to work to isolate each athlete to help simplify the background. The camera was set to Aperture Priority with a +3 exposure compensation. The longer lens allowed me to shoot more covertly which kept the vaulters relaxed and natural.

This is high school pole vaulter Dolphurs Hayes, one of the athletes at my daughters pole vault camp in south Georgia. I found Dolphurs to be very photogenic and quite patient with the photography. In some of my earlier shots he tended to pose and I was really after something more heroic. In this shot I caught him waiting on the runway while another vaulter was going. His gaze was down the runway and he seemed to be concentrating on what he needed to do when it came time for his turn. This was a mid morning shot and the light was beautiful.

The RAW files were brought into Adobe Lightroom for sorting and development. I have been working in a more “gritty” style with some of my recent portrait work processing and I found this technique worked well for these images. But I put my own development twist to the files and created some different Development Presets in Lightroom. I began by using the Lightroom Bleached ByPass Preset by added my own twists to the processing to create my version. I actually created three different Presets and employed each one based on the characteristics of the image including the scene lighting and overall color rendition in the athletes skin tones and clothes. The technique relies on a pronounced sharpening routine for a more hyperreal look. Capture sharpening was performed in Lightroom and a second round of sharpening was applied after setting the Black and White Point and minor Curve work in Photoshop.

I will post a few more of these images in the next few days as I work them up from their RAW state. I promise to return to landscape soon. In the meantime please enjoy these images. The kids were fantastic and my daughter was not too embarrassed. In fact most of the kids were excited to see the images and how I might process them. Overall it was just great fun to work on new techniques.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

 

 

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Kay Clark – Pole Vaulter

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Jul 022011
 

Kay Clark, Pole Vaulter No. 1. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200 at 150mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 350th of a second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. My daughter Kay and I are hidden deep in the hot south for a intensive pole vault camp. Happily she is the pole vaulter and I get the pleasure of coaching, observing, and of course taking a few images. I have been focusing so much on my landscape work lately and I found shooting the athletes a refreshing break. These shots are from the first day of the camp. This is an intensive, two practices a day camp with her coach and eight other vaulters. I kept the processing fairly simple by applying a Black and White, Soft Light Layer over the color base image and then desaturating the reds and blues. A few curves, some dodging and burning, and sharpening completed the look. I focused on the athlete and also shot some details to pick out the character of this sport. Today was great fun. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I had fun shooting them. I will be posting some more images from this shoot in the next few days. Thank you for stopping by today.

Bob

Taping the Hands. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 500th of a second.

Pole Vaulter, Kay Clark. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 500th of a second.

Setting the Grip. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 500th of a second.

Taping the Hands. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 500th of a second.

Ready to Go, Kay Clark. Shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at 200mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f2.8 for 350th of a second.

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