I have been shooting some basketball shots of my sons games, mainly as a method of improving my skills. I shoot in raw, and post process in lightroom (although I do have CS5 as well)
The light in the stadium is quite yellow, compounded by cream brick walls and the typical yellowish wooden sprung floor... plus the team wears orange...
Unfortunately I do not have an f/2.8 70-200, so I have used either my f/4 24-105, or my f/1.8 50mm. I have had to shoot at quite a high ISO - either 1600, 3200 or 6400 to be able to get a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the action.
The images are VERY noisy though, as this 100% crop shows (this is a straight raw to jpeg conversion at 100%);
1/250 at f/4, 6400 ISO
Here is the unedited uncropped - showing the yellowish wb
I have attempted to pp the image to correct the white balance and noise... here is the 100% crop
And the edited full;
The changes I made in Lightroom included;
- WB to 3400, +30 tint (Auto took too much of the yellow out, leaving a blue tinge)
- Increased exposure and contrast, reduced blacks
- increased clarity and a tiny bit of vibrance
- increased saturation of Blue, with a smaller increase in Aqua
- increased luminance and detail under Noise Reduction
- Applied lens correction
To me though it still doesn't look right, but I can't seem to pinpoint where or what I can do to improve it. The orange of the shirts isn't quite right, nor is the skin tones, particularly when viewed at 100%
Would love some help and advice with this, either with the shooting or the pp
Cheers!