I just started shooting High School sports in Apature . I shot a La Cross game in bright sun light using my Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 70-200 mm lens.
Here's the problem I set it at a f 2.8 with 400 ISO and left the shutter speed to the camera. When I viewed them in LR they were extremely light and the shutter speed was at 1/6400 or1/8000.
I am assuming that I should have upped the f stop to reduce the light thus lower the shutter speed. Am I on the right track?
In bright sunlight, why do you have your ISO set so high? Set your ISO to 100 or 200, what ever your camera will allow. It looks as though with your settings the camera was setting the shutter as fast as it could and that was still too much light.
Moomoo48 wrote:
I just started shooting High School sports in Apature . I shot a La Cross game in bright sun light using my Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 70-200 mm lens.
Here's the problem I set it at a f 2.8 with 400 ISO and left the shutter speed to the camera. When I viewed them in LR they were extremely light and the shutter speed was at 1/6400 or1/8000.
I am assuming that I should have upped the f stop to reduce the light thus lower the shutter speed. Am I on the right track?
If your shutter speed maxed out, yes, closing down your aperture or dropping your iso would reduce the lightness.
Moomoo48 wrote:
I just started shooting High School sports in Apature . I shot a La Cross game in bright sun light using my Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 70-200 mm lens.
Here's the problem I set it at a f 2.8 with 400 ISO and left the shutter speed to the camera. When I viewed them in LR they were extremely light and the shutter speed was at 1/6400 or1/8000.
I am assuming that I should have upped the f stop to reduce the light thus lower the shutter speed. Am I on the right track?
Agree with what others have said, it might also help to look at your histogram after the first shot to see if you were in the ballpark. If you had looked, you would have known to adjust. Theres the old saying of "Shoot to the Right". But if you're blowing things out your too far right.
The exposure in the displayed photograph looks close if not correct. The Histogram will tell you for sure.
Meanwhile, in bright sunlight, you could set the Shutter Speed to, say, 1/500 sec, to stop action, and the ISO on Auto. Then the Aperture will self-adjust.
Because you want to stop action, give Shutter Speed priority, and manually control it.
Note that you may have to use Exposure Compensation to gain a good exposure.
Try out your settings there at the game to see how they work for your intentions.
Moomoo48 wrote:
I just started shooting High School sports in Apature . I shot a La Cross game in bright sun light using my Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 70-200 mm lens.
Here's the problem I set it at a f 2.8 with 400 ISO and left the shutter speed to the camera. When I viewed them in LR they were extremely light and the shutter speed was at 1/6400 or1/8000.
I am assuming that I should have upped the f stop to reduce the light thus lower the shutter speed. Am I on the right track?
If you are not shooting in manual then set your ISO to 100 and shoot in shutter priority, set high enough to stop action. (something above 1/500 sec) If shooting in manual set ISO to 100, aperture to f/8- f/16 depending on the light and shutter somewhere around 1/1000. Leaving ISO and aperture set, play with the shutter speed but do not go below 1/500 of a sec. If you find you need to go below 1/500 sec to get correct exposure, then adjust your aperture.
Moomoo48 wrote:
I just started shooting High School sports in Apature . I shot a La Cross game in bright sun light using my Nikon D7100 with a Nikon 70-200 mm lens.
Here's the problem I set it at a f 2.8 with 400 ISO and left the shutter speed to the camera. When I viewed them in LR they were extremely light and the shutter speed was at 1/6400 or1/8000.
I am assuming that I should have upped the f stop to reduce the light thus lower the shutter speed. Am I on the right track?
Moomoo48,
The idea you had to set the ISO high enough to freeze the action of the Football game was reasonable. You may be correct in that you had maxed out the capability of your camera's shutter speed. In that regard you could have dropped the ISO down 2 stops and still had enough shutter speed.
But, assuming you did everything that has been suggested in this thread, there is one more that has not been mentioned; your exposure metering mode, and where in the scene was the exposure measured. The Grass looks pretty good.
Next time try a lower ISO and set the exposure metering to average around the center of the frame.
Aperture Priority is used to make sure the principle player remains in sharp focus through proper DOF range.
Michael G
One thing, by shooting at f2.8, you're limiting your dof. I would normally shoot sports using shutter priority, but you can also make sure that you get the aperture that you want by adjusting your ISO.
In this case, I'd select a lower shutter speed, and make sure my aperture was around f8 or 11. You'll want a shutter speed sufficient to stop the action, 1/500th or even 1/1000th depending on the lighting conditions.
Capture48 wrote:
Agree with what others have said, it might also help to look at your histogram after the first shot to see if you were in the ballpark. If you had looked, you would have known to adjust. Theres the old saying of "Shoot to the Right". But if you're blowing things out your too far right.
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not sure what the quote means. Please explain it to me.
Thanks
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