Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Photographing Nordic Skiing

Here is a brief summary of how I capture and process Nordic skiing photos.

  • Set the camera to “Automatic Program” (P).
  • Set the camera to continuous focus (AI servo in Canon) on the center point.
  • Set the metering mode to “Partial”.
  • Watching the luminance histogram on the camera back use the Exposure Compensation setting to “dial back” the bright snow (usually about –2/3).

Camera display2

These settings produced the image shown below. As you can see the skier is a little under exposed but all of the detail in the snow is retained.

Nordic (notes)

Selectively applying Shadow and Highlight adjustments as well as exposure compensation quickly transforms the original image into this…

Sarah Benton Wallpaper (master)

Cropping and applying a mat and frame in Photoshop gives us a really nice preview of how this will look hanging on the wall in Dad’s office Smile

Sarah Benton Framed (19 x 13)

Oh…One last thing…Stand in a spot where something interesting is about to happen!

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