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Photo by Neil Graham
Hi, I'm Neil a Berkshire wedding photographer who would love to capture your big day. From the preparation photographs to the first dance, I will cover your entire day providing candid, detail and group images. I pride myself by being at your service and on hand to answer any questions and give advice if required.
I love travelling, so distance is not a problem when it comes to your wedding day. A great testimony from Darren and Mandy , who set out what a fun and professional service you can expect from myself.
"Just want to say a massive thank you to Neil Graham, who went above and beyond all expectations to give us some amazing memories to keep forever ! We would highly recommend him for any professional photos". Thanks again Neil.
Darren & Mandy
If you're interested and I know you are, feel free to call or email, plus you can connect me via Facebook and Twitter.
Tel : 07584 900938
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A couple of followers on Google plus ask me how I obtained a crisp photo of the winning Audi LMP 1 car at the 2013 Le Mans, I thought I'd put together a quick check list of what I do for my night time panning shot.
My Gear- Canon 60d and Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 IS USM Mk 1. Click for technical data.
1. Try to find a length of straight with flood lights or perhaps an entrances or between corners, the main reason for this is it provides you with a consent light source and at corners you have cars bunching up which provides light from behind. In a way the flood lights becomes your key and car headlamps become your fill light at ground level.
2. I always shoot to the right of the histogram in Raw which seems to allow more information to be captured by my APC crop sensor in my Canon 60d. By coincidence, +Martin Bailey of Martin Bailey Photography recently produced a podcast #381 about shooting to the right and Martin explains it in more technical detail and much better than I could so it's worth heading over to Martin's website or iTunes and have a listen.
3. Test shots, to set up your camera and don't rush because they will come past again and again. You also can test your panning technic, I stand with feet firmly planted to the ground and rotate my hips as smooth as I can, plus I tuck in my elbows tight to reduce my own nature shake.
4. Always aim for a correct in-camera exposure, which will give you more room in post processing to recover highlights and open shadows up. I try not to go over ISO 3200 on my Canon 60D but I'd rather have the correct exposure in camera than under expose and recover in Lightroom 4, so I will go above ISO 3200 if required. It's better to smooth the noise in Lightroom 4 with a correct exposure rather than under expose, then increase your exposure in LR4 as this only produces even more noise to deal with as you push it higher.
5. I use the centre focus point on my camera for the best sensitively during focusing and the lenses set on stabiliser 2 for side to side movement.
6. As mentioned before if you find a straight which you can access safely with subjects only moving from left to right, this will help your camera to focus quicker. If the cars are coming at you then away fast, the camera not only has to track the target towards you, then the camera has to move focus, this is one of hardest things for your camera to do, especially in dark conditions.
7. Put your camera in high continuous, Al Servo. I can guarantee that not every photo will not be in focus, as I found in a set 8/9 burst, only number 3 and number 7 would be in focus. I would set up to take 8/9 photos and only expect 2 photos to be useable. For me this is not a bad ratio of return. I also delete the others to save space on my hard drive space. Some photographers say never delete any photos, the choice is yours.
8. Normally all of my photos are hand held because as a normal paying customer at the motor racing there is not enough room for a big set up, but I if remember correctly this time my camera was mounted to a tripod, because I was making a video and this did reduce my up and down movement.
9. Finally, I use Lightroom 4 for my post processing. Generally I only adjust the exposure, highlights,shadows,charity and vibrance,then I sharpen, apply noise reduction and lenses correction and that's it. No photoshop at all. (Mainly because I don't know how to use it)
Below I have all of my camera settings and my post processing setting in Lightroom 4, plus the before and after photo.
Camera Settings
1/100 sec at F/2.8 ISO 3200 200mm (EF70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM)
This is a 50% Jpegs of the CR2 original before processing in Lightroom 4.
Lightroom 4 processing settings
Temp 3800 (Fluorescent) Tint +21 , Exposure +30, Contrast 0, Highlights -41, Shadows +62, whites 0, Blacks 0, Clarity +44, Vibrance +20 and Saturation 0.
No Curve, no HSL, no Split toning.
Sharpening- 36, Radius 1.0, Detail 2, Masking 40, Noise Reduction - Luminance 67, Detail 50, Contrast 27, Colour 49, Details 50
Normal Lens Corrections with LR4 Profiles and Colour.
The winning number 2 Audi LMP1 at Le Mans 2013.
Click on the image to view more audi photographs.
I hope this short summary helps you with you're panning shots at night. Again, it does show me using my prosumer camera you can still produce some very good photos.
If you have anymore questions please email neil@neilgrahamphootgraphy.com
Last Tuesday I had a chat over coffee with Stephen Cotterell for his Photography 121 Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/photography-121/id425877463 Also, Michael Rammell Photography join me for the trip to London. After, Stephen gave us a parking ticket, we had a hug and a shake of hands, which put me completely at ease. It's refreshing to meet a follow photographer with a passion for talking from the heart about photography.
Coffee made and we were off, no rules, no prepared questions and the recorder set.. For someone who has not been questioned about his photography before I found it a little troubling..
Stephen's skill at asking questions put me at ease and the hour went rather quick.. After listening back to the podcast I sometimes forgot what the question was and perhaps not answering with a straight answer, but that's me all over.
Three things I will take away from the chat is that, I need to
push my blogging more (Perhaps a Book). Never lose sight of a photo over the technical quality and lastly add an invoice to my work flow..
Can I say thanks to Stephen Cotterell once again and if you have time please leave a review on iTunes after listening to the podcast..
Neil Graham Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/photography-121/id425877463
@neilgrahamphoto on Twitter
gneil45 on Flickr and G+
Stephen Cotterell can be found at http://stephencotterell.com/and on Twitter as @Stephensmiles
