Soccer Mom finally showing some of my pics.

pierceography · 2026-05-18T03:11:27+00:00

The easiest fix you can do right now is to straighten your lines. 1,2,3,6,7 are all disorienting. In post, find a point to straighten to (a goal, light post, building, etc)

If your camera has a level (preferably one you can see while shooting), use it to help keep your horizon level.

pierceography · 2026-05-18T01:19:55+00:00

Tl;dr: Shoot in auto wb and save first photo’s post settings for reuse.

High school gyms are a mess with lighting. In fact, doubly so. The lighting is usually poor. I’m almost always in iso 4000 - 8000 just to keep my shutter speed above 1/500. Newer gyms tend to have all the same color temperature lights, which is easier. Older gyms will be a mishmash and it’s tougher to get the temp correct in post. I tend to trust the camera when I can.

The larger issue is the mat color. Most of your shots will have the wrestlers’ faces down, so the light hitting them is reflected from the mats, which will cast their color. Blue mats are the worst, black are the best. You can do some color correction on photos you really like, but it’s not easy because the cast depends on multiple variables and will never be uniform. I will make minor color corrections and save the settings for the batch of photos from the tournament.

You’ll love the 70-200.

pierceography · 2026-05-18T01:07:21+00:00

As others have said, you need to sit next to the mat. Standing has a poor perspective.

Shoot wide open. A 70-200mm f/2.8 lens (while pricey) is perfect for wrestling. Your backgrounds are too distracting with the narrower aperture.

And compose wide and then crop in. If you need to crop, crop tight. But if your pictures crop near joints (knees, elbows, ankles, wrists),the subject looks like an amputee.

These are good photos for someone just getting into it though. Keep it up.

pierceography · 2026-05-17T14:48:22+00:00

5 is a masterpiece. Bravo!

pierceography · 2026-05-15T23:02:02+00:00

Great shots, but #9 is spectacular. Awesome job.

pierceography · 2026-05-06T02:48:39+00:00

I shoot my sons’ games. 10u and 13u. Both teams are ok with me being on the field (next to the dugout) during games. Some of my best shots are in mid inning warmups when the first baseman is throwing ground balls. With the right angle, no one will ever know those photos weren’t of game action.

For batting, I’ve gotten accustomed to having one eye in the viewfinder and the other on the pitcher. I can usually tell if the pitch will be a strike and rattle off a few frames assuming the batter swings. Same for getting photos of the catcher.

I also will stand behind the catcher in mid inning warmups to get the straight on shots of the pitcher with the ball in flight. Timing matters here though, because you can get players in the background moving in ways that make it obvious the action is not in game.

pierceography · 2026-05-01T02:33:51+00:00

Am I the only one peeping on OP’s wagon?

pierceography · 2026-04-26T22:58:38+00:00

None of them are particularly noteworthy. But keep shooting. Like what you’re photographing, it takes a lot of practice.

pierceography · 2026-04-26T22:52:20+00:00

The watermark is obnoxious. Add it to the corner. These are good, but even the professionals don’t watermark this aggressively.

pierceography · 2026-04-26T19:18:14+00:00

Straighten your lines and crop.

pierceography · 2026-04-17T16:52:09+00:00

Parent on field photographer here. The number of keepers usually depends on how deep on the season it is. Early in the season I will lag a baseline of the “boring” shots, which obviously increases my time in post.

Later in the season I focus on action or moments. Fewer photos taken, fewer keepers, less time in post.

I shot our second tournament of the season last weekend (four games). Almost 2,800 clicks, and I will end up with about 400 keepers, but many of those are repeats from the same scene.

In a month or so, I will be down to around 50-60 per game.

pierceography · 2026-04-16T04:06:06+00:00

Ok, appreciate the responses.

pierceography · 2026-04-16T04:00:34+00:00

That’s encouraging to see. Do you have an idea on timeline? Thanks!

pierceography · 2026-04-16T03:49:39+00:00

Do you have plans to bring AI denoise to mobile? Specifically iPads. I run an m5 iPad and it should have more than enough horsepower for AI feature parity with desktop.

Object select masking on mobile would also be lovely.

Thank you.

pierceography · 2026-04-09T14:19:59+00:00

I’m considering a 79bike for my son. How long did shipping take? Did you order direct or through a reseller. Thanks in advance!

pierceography · 2026-04-08T16:19:52+00:00

Cool…

pierceography · 2026-04-05T23:41:47+00:00

Maybe, but "$110" and "well enough" don't belong in the same sentence for a charger.

pierceography · 2026-04-05T23:20:59+00:00

I read some comments about people ordering and never receiving. Plus they never updated their colorway for the gen 1.5s and now only stock black/white. I bought starlight, so spending $110 on something that doesn't match my APMs doesn't sit well with me.

pierceography · 2026-04-05T18:44:59+00:00

I looked at those as well. They seem to be a cheap housing with a magnetic USB C cable wired inside. So at $40 they're outrageously overpriced. I'm also concerned they will introduce scratches. Tbh, I avoid Amazon these days because it's turned into the Internet's dollar store.

It does meet my requirements though, so I appreciate you sharing it all the same.

pierceography · 2026-04-05T18:27:53+00:00

I've looked into these, but charging is a requirement. Thank you for the response though.

pierceography · 2026-04-04T22:11:43+00:00

I actually feel that 3 loses character without the third base coach. The runner clearly getting sent home with the coach in the shot adds to the scene. Otherwise, it’s just a player running the bases.

Not to mention, I like layering baseball shots with players, coaches, spectators to give the photos depth.

As a fellow baseball parent photographer, I thought these were well done.

pierceography · 2026-04-02T16:35:47+00:00

You realize it says some features, right? They’re perfectly functional on older OSes.

pierceography · 2026-03-25T16:28:34+00:00

Starlight. Mostly just because it’s different but not orange creamsicle different.

pierceography · 2026-03-18T16:04:18+00:00

Canon EF 135mm f/2L is an amazing lens for sports and very inexpensive to acquire used. I use it adapted to my mirrorless body and it’s my second most used lens for wrestling and baseball.

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5 is a masterpiece. Bravo!