So, the idea of dodgeball as a sport to be taken seriously (and some of us take it way too seriously) struck me as a bit goofy. And my natural reaction to such a situation is to make things even goofier. Like making trading cards about it. I might actually make the trading cards some day, or maybe someone else will, but these shots were taken with that use in mind.
I had one flash in front of me, camera left, and another on-camera. I set exposure to mostly kill the ambient light in the gym, turned the flashes on 1/4ish to light the subject. then I changed to aperture to make the flashes look good, and adjusted the shutter speed to bring back the original exposure.
When I shoot with natural light, I almost always shoot wide open, because I really like smudging the background with big apertures. When I'm shooting with lights, however, I don't really care. It's all about separating the subject from the background. If the subject and background are equally bright, then you have to do it with aperture. If I'm lighting things artificially, the subject inevitably ends up a stop or two brighter than the surroundings, and so is sufficiently separated at whatever f-stop-separated by light levels this time, rather than shallow depth of field.
In this case, the back wall behind the subjects was far away enough that it was blurry at f4, which I was shooting at. I will post more as I take them, but this particular night had a lowish turnout.
As for post, I desaturated and used the high pass filter (radius 105 pixels)on a duplicate layer, then reduced the opacity of that new layer to around 70%. This look gets used a lot lately, and while I'm not crazy about seeming like a sheep (though I bet it would be nice to be that fluffy), I really like it. I have it in mind for another project as well, one where it fits perfectly, instead of ironically, as here.
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