Portraits of My Granddaughter at High ISO, High Speed and Long Distance: These were taken this afternoon of my 6 year old granddaughter at gymnastics camp with at 1/500 f5.6 ISO 18,000...

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

These were taken this afternoon of my 6 year old granddaughter at gymnastics camp with at 1/500 f5.6 ISO 18,000 and 14,400 with my D7200 at 270mm and 300mm. Another example that candids of kids sometimes make the best portraits. I added #4 just for fun to show one of her signature dismounts. Enjoy!
Mark

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blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Outstanding work Mark, you have a very pretty young lady as a granddaughter. Mine are all grown up, one even resides in Brazil.

carlysue Loc: Columbus

I must agree, Mark, that candids make for excellent portraits with more natural expression. Excellent job, especially for doing in a gymnasium--difficult lighting, multiple distractions, constant motion. You met the challenges and overcame them! And, BTW, she's a sweetie!

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

blacks2 wrote:

Outstanding work Mark, you have a very pretty young lady as a granddaughter. Mine are all grown up, one even resides in Brazil.

Thank you so much my friend. I always appreciate your kind comments. Time does fly by. I’m scanning slides from the 70s and 80s and can’t believe my daughters are now in their mid 40s. Thankfully they’re all in Marin so I have my precious grandkids to hug and kiss and photograph!

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

carlysue wrote:

I must agree, Mark, that candids make for excellent portraits with more natural expression. Excellent job, especially for doing in a gymnasium--difficult lighting, multiple distractions, constant motion. You met the challenges and overcame them! And, BTW, she's a sweetie!

Thank you so much for your kind comments Carlysue. i worried a little about noise but the results were lots of keepers and what’s most important, my little sweetie loves them - especially the “Grandpa, you got me flying” one.

carlysue Loc: Columbus

srfmhg wrote:

Thank you so much for your kind comments Carlysue. i worried a little about noise but the results were lots of keepers and what’s most important, my little sweetie loves them - especially the “Grandpa, you got me flying” one.

Priceless!!

WessoJPEG Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio

srfmhg wrote:

These were taken this afternoon of my 6 year old granddaughter at gymnastics camp with at 1/500 f5.6 ISO 18,000 and 14,400 with my D7200 at 270mm and 300mm. Another example that candids of kids sometimes make the best portraits. I added #4 just for fun to show one of her signature dismounts. Enjoy!
Mark

A good example of using high ISO's, great shots.

Chadp Loc: Virginia Beach

Very nice. Especially at high ISO. Did you do any noise removal in post processing? Most of my shots with my D5500 are indoor candid shots of my kids without great lighting. But I rarely go over 3200 on ISO.

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

WessoJPEG wrote:

A good example of using high ISO's, great shots.

Thanks WessoJPEG

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

Chadp wrote:

Very nice. Especially at high ISO. Did you do any noise removal in post processing? Most of my shots with my D5500 are indoor candid shots of my kids without great lighting. But I rarely go over 3200 on ISO.

Thanks Chad. I did some post processing for exposure and to crop but no noise reduction. These were taken with auto ISO, and user preset for dance recitals at 1/500 f5.6.

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

Chadp wrote:

Very nice. Especially at high ISO. Did you do any noise removal in post processing? Most of my shots with my D5500 are indoor candid shots of my kids without great lighting. But I rarely go over 3200 on ISO.

Chad - I just checked and #3 is straight out of the camera at ISO 14,400 so try auto ISO and see what happens.
Mark

Chadp Loc: Virginia Beach

Mark,

Thanks. I will try it. I am usually using a 50 1.8 or 35 1.8 so i doubt my ISO will get up too high. But below 300 or so shutter speed my constantly moving kids are a blur.

Chad

Ben's nana Loc: Chesterland, Ohio

She's lovely... and very nice action shot
Fran

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

Ben's nana wrote:

She's lovely... and very nice action shot
Fran

Thanks so much for your kind comments Fran.

angela k Loc: Long Island

Sorry Mark... I don't know how I missed these!! First off, she's adorable and love those curls!!!! Such focus and determination in her face!!! Wonderful captures and memories..... ones that she will love to have when she's older... last shot is priceless!!!!
I can't wait to do things like this with the boys... but it's hard, they don't live close and the parents both work.