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With the crazy lighting I deal with when I shoot Ultra Marathons I was never able to save my highlights and pull up the shadows with my Nikon D5 like I can with the A99-2. I'm still floored how well the camera and raw files dealt with this situation.

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Impressive but it looks unrealistic and over done to me, almost as if the runner was cloned into the photo.
 
Two magazines are running with these photos and over $1,000 worth of photos sold within 2 days not bad
 
steelhead3 said:
It is tough w/ the central Oregon sun this time of year but the files of the 99II make it easy to cheat the shadows. :-D
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Yeah unfortunately it's really hard to expose properly for this kind of scenario and this by far is the best camera to do it for me. You can't use Flash on 600 Runners coming at you all at once it's not realistic. The runners love these photos and everyone is happy.
 
alanlinde said:
Impressive. You chose a very nice spot; I love the cliffs and, particularly, the reflection. As for the criticism – that's personal taste and obviously yours appeals to your audience.

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Thanks for the kind words! If I could shoot on a tripod with perfect lighting and not for runners, crazy lighting I'm sure the photos would look better
 
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Nothing to complain WRT composition etc. The HDr look is a tad overdone to my taste, see below for a lesser approach:



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Beyond the PP: Lovely scenery out there, very well captured!

Cheers,

Ralf
 
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paulnelson88 said:
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Nothing to complain WRT composition etc. The HDr look is a tad overdone to my taste, see below for a lesser approach:

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Beyond the PP: Lovely scenery out there, very well captured!

Cheers,

Ralf
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Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately the runners are too dark as I've been doing this for over 5 years. I will get that complained nonstop from them and from the client that hired me. Unfortunately I'm writing more of the HDR look

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paulnelson88 said:
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately the runners are too dark as I've been doing this for over 5 years. I will get that complaint nonstop from them and from the client that hired me.
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... the clients get (unless you buy a Sony camera but that is OT ;-) ).

Fully understood!
Cheers,
Ralf
 
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paulnelson88 said:
With the crazy lighting I deal with when I shoot Ultra Marathons I was never able to save my highlights and pull up the shadows with my Nikon D5 like I can with the A99-2. I'm still floored how well the camera and raw files dealt with this situation.

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Great composition, I tend to agree with the others RE the PP comments BUT... I appreciate that there's a massive element of efficiency when doing so many photos, plus the "Super-HDR" look is usually a big hit with non-purist photographers and if the client is happy that's what matters.

Have you tried shooting JPGS and maximising the DRO? I ask simply because it's a very underrated feature and as noted in Friedman's book people spend hours trying to recreate something in RAW that the camera does automatically. Might be worth shooting Raw + JPG once or twice and checking the feature out (While still getting the RAW file to play with if it doesn't help). It might give you the look you're after right out of the box so to speak.

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I did try that here and it worked great except I would hit the buffer and miss shots

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Slick Fork wrote:

paulnelson88 wrote:

With the crazy lighting I deal with when I shoot Ultra Marathons I was never able to save my highlights and pull up the shadows with my Nikon D5 like I can with the A99-2. I'm still floored how well the camera and raw files dealt with this situation.

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Great composition, I tend to agree with the others RE the PP comments BUT... I appreciate that there's a massive element of efficiency when doing so many photos, plus the "Super-HDR" look is usually a big hit with non-purist photographers and if the client is happy that's what matters.

Have you tried shooting JPGS and maximising the DRO? I ask simply because it's a very underrated feature and as noted in Friedman's book people spend hours trying to recreate something in RAW that the camera does automatically. Might be worth shooting Raw + JPG once or twice and checking the feature out (While still getting the RAW file to play with if it doesn't help). It might give you the look you're after right out of the box so to speak.

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That's a spectacular scene! I imagine you run the course a few days before to scope potential shooting locations and figure out sun positions and all. It's nice to have extra adjustment latitude so you can go with locations that you couldn't have picked before.

The trail looks so narrow, how did the runner get past you?

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paulnelson88 said:
tbcass said:
Impressive but it looks unrealistic and over done to me, almost as if the runner was cloned into the photo.
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Lol thanks let me know when you want to come out and shoot an ultramarathon then you can judge :-)
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It does appear a tad psychedelic, as do some other examples on your website. But they're all impressive photos that probably sell like hotcakes; and maybe the participants do see things that way when they're out there running for hours - you know - 'runner's high'.
 
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