This was my first outdoor derby bout. Bout time was 1pm, in February in California with a bunch of fluffy clouds occassionally passing by to create some momentary shade.
I shot most of the bout at f8, instead of f2.8. Yeah, that's right, roller derby and "f8 and be there."
I just couldn't get over the depth of field of the photos when editing them.
I mean Jesus Feist! That depth of field is crazy!
Even with the contrasty light there seemed to be a bit of a haze to the photos... so I added a touch of constast or stomped on the lower part of the level curve for many of them. Oh, and check out these blue shadows.
The bout was played on a concrete outdoor patio. The concrete had to be swept extra clean for the second layer of tape to hold down the lines defining the track.
Also the track was a little smaller than standard. I was a little leery about shooting from the center but it worked out okay.
Now the really crazy thing was the occasional IR contamination in the photos in spite of having a UV/IR cut filter on the lens because the sun was so bright. Now, you can't see it in this photo, because I converted it to black and white (and played around with the color mixing and level curves), but this black Monterey Bay hoodie is actually slightly purple in the out-of-the-camera digital negative.
Okay, just a few more photo highlights.
The full flickr set is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocklebeast/sets/72157632846057805/
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I realized that I might have another example of IR contamination in spite of having an IR cut filter on the lens. In this case it's at the Santa Cruz Civic where the lighting is tungsten heavy. The Bay Area hoodie on the left may actually be black instead of purple (I'm not sure) and there is one set of pants here that is purple-ish, which may not actually be purple in real life.
oh, and here's the link to that photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocklebeast/6849264490/
I'm not really sure on these blacks that are purple... maybe they really were purple.
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