p.1 #1 · NCAA Football - Rutgers 31 South Florida 0
Big Thursday night win for Rutgers. Now ranked #25 in the AP Poll, they dominated #23/24 South Florida in a 31-0 affair with a highlight reel dominated by Rutgers special teams and defense.
Only one more regular season RU game left for me. Also, later this week I'll post my favorites from my first ever NFL game, this weekend's Jets vs. Jags match-up at the Meadowlands.
p.1 #5 · NCAA Football - Rutgers 31 South Florida 0
Hm I think the noise comes from a little exuberance with sharpening them. They're mostly ISO 6400 on the D700, and not really "heavily" cropped, so maybe it's down to that... they look less noisy in PS than they do in Firefox for me as well...
p.1 #7 · NCAA Football - Rutgers 31 South Florida 0
I'm wondering why you would be shooting at F5.6 and 6400ISO on some of the shots, and on others you are at F2.8 and 1600ISO. On the D300 the noise looks pretty bad even for 1600ISO and the 6400 on the D700 is just awful. Were these heavily underexposed and brought back? I like the action but wow the noise is a killer on many of them.
p.1 #8 · NCAA Football - Rutgers 31 South Florida 0
Nope they're actually slightly overexposed for the faces and brought back down.
My setup was a D700 with 300mm ƒ/2.8 + 2.0TC, bringing it down to 6400 ISO ƒ/5.6 1/500th of a second, and a D300 with 200mm ƒ/2.8 at 1600 ISO, ƒ/2.8, 1/500th.
I find the performance of the D700 with this setup (600mm) vs. the D300 with just the open 300mm (450mm equivilent) higher and typically looks better, but I guess it's just me?
p.1 #9 · NCAA Football - Rutgers 31 South Florida 0
Wow...you've got some nice action there! I really like #3 & 4 for the action.
As already said, a lot of noise! I'm not sure what happened, but I thought Nikon was supposed to be better at high iso...
I shot most of the season with a 50D at 6400 and didn't get images any where near this noisy. And that was on a HS field with 4 light poles. It must be something in PP that caused them to be this way. Maybe too much USM? Possibly compression from uploading them? Something has to be going wrong somewhere in PP for them to be this noisy.
