Shooting pictures in a well lit gym
Jan 30, 2012 21:01:37 #
I am getting better at it. At least this time they came out a little lighter, I upped the ISO but lose focus. Is there a way to keep pictures lighter without losing focus on the edges.
Jan 30, 2012 21:03:17 #
jaclynpaige wrote:
I am getting better at it. At least this time they came out a little lighter, I upped the ISO but lose focus. Is there a way to keep pictures lighter without losing focus on the edges.
Jaclyn,
Post some examples, that would make it much easier to offer help.
Also what camera are you using and what settings?
Looking forward to your photos,
Eric
Jan 31, 2012 02:52:57 #
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Jan 31, 2012 10:52:06 #
jaclynpaige wrote:
I am getting better at it. At least this time they came out a little lighter, I upped the ISO but lose focus. Is there a way to keep pictures lighter without losing focus on the edges.
You did not mention the equipment you use. Is it Canon? Nikon? Other? What about the lenses?
I have found that 1/320 sec. shutter speed is good enough to freeze human movement, and most ball movement. The ball may be ever so slightly blurred. The ISO and exposure value should be adjusted to lighten the pictures. Use the fastest lens possible. Prime lenses give a crisp picture, but make it harder to frame the picture properly. Use two cameras, if you can. One with a zoom the other a prime.
Take everything written and said with a grain of salt, including my advice. Right on UHH I have read bad advise on shooting fast action sports. One insisted that he got good results on automatic settings. On full auto any camera blurs fast action. others enjoin you to set the shutter speed to 1/1000 sec. or a similarly ridiculous number. If they did that for indoor sports their pictures would be totally black.
Darkening or blurring the edges? That should not be a major problem. Add to the effect and make it an intentional vignetting.
Jan 31, 2012 13:27:09 #
Not where I can post pictures using a D300 upped ISO to 800 last time didn't change ISO so I had darker pictures that I lightened on Photoshop. I am so untrained in this camera it is kind of a lesson each time I use it. I try to absorb something from the manual but mostly I just use it on auto settings and it takes great pics of my granddaughter but in these different settings I am out of my element. Will post some pics later sorry
Jan 31, 2012 17:18:07 #
Well since I didn't see any pictures I thought I would post a few from my wife's grand daughters game last Saturday. When there is a well lit gym I prefer to shoot all of the photos in RAW and no flash. I do some post processing on the RAW before converting to JPG. I just did these on full auto because I didn't want to show full stop action. I wanted hands and the ball to show movement. I used the 55 to 250 lens, shown below. PS She is in the pink shorts and made one of her 5 goals in the last photo.
Jan 31, 2012 18:35:18 #
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Jan 31, 2012 19:22:07 #
BigBird wrote:
Hand held only.
I'm thinking it would help alot if you could stabalize the camera, and be careful of bleecher shake... (Kids running up and down, ) ....
Jan 31, 2012 20:38:38 #
I didn't notice any bleacher shake. I think a monopod or tripod (I have one of each) would be very difficult to use because of the fast paced action. Thanks for the ideas.
Jan 31, 2012 21:07:47 #
BigBird wrote:
I didn't notice any bleacher shake. I think a monopod or tripod (I have one of each) would be very difficult to use because of the fast paced action. Thanks for the ideas.
I have hand held a 400mm lens at a football game before. It results in a back ache. The monopod is rather easy to use for fast action. Go with it.
Jan 31, 2012 22:37:59 #
I have used the tripod and monopod many times when the situation called for them and yes, the monopod is very easy to use. On my Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom I am up to nearly 10,000 shots and only about 700 on this Canon since November. I'm still learning.
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