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08/02/2004 01:43:25 AM · #26 |
Great tutorial, lots of helpful advice
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11/28/2004 11:29:39 PM · #27 |
Nice tutorial.
I'm new around here and I've found that what you describe has lots in common with what I do when I photograph every year the Macao Grand Prix. The basic this is that I keep my speed at 200/250 and my ISO at 200. The results are good if you get lots of practice, specially panning the camera to accompany the car's movements. |
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12/08/2004 03:04:48 PM · #28 |
| I need advice on shooting indoor basketball or volleyball for a local high school. I use a D70 with either a AF-S Nikkor 18-70 or a AF-S Nikkor 24-120 VR with a SB 600 speedlight. I am getting a lot of blurred photos and need the correct settings to achieve better photos. Any suggestions? |
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12/08/2004 03:32:34 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Cagey:
I need advice on shooting indoor basketball or volleyball for a local high school. I use a D70 with either a AF-S Nikkor 18-70 or a AF-S Nikkor 24-120 VR with a SB 600 speedlight. I am getting a lot of blurred photos and need the correct settings to achieve better photos. Any suggestions? |
You may want to try manual mode. Set your shutter to 1/160 or 1/200" and the aperture as wide as it will go. Set your iso to 800 or so and let the flash do the work.
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12/08/2004 03:37:05 PM · #30 |
Great tutorial, not too "preachy" ;-)
Just good advice. |
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12/08/2004 04:46:58 PM · #31 |
The saying goes that to get a good photo it's not the Hardware it's the person behind the hardware.
In Sports Photography this is not absolutely true, the Equipment plays a major role in allowing you to get the shot. A fast FPS and a BIG fast lens are minimum requirements. 400mm f/2.8, 500mm f/2.8 or 600mm f/4 are standard tools of the trade.
 Well equipped photog!
Message edited by author 2004-12-08 16:53:58.
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09/01/2005 05:01:56 PM · #32 |
I am still finding my feet with photography in general, having recently bought myself a Canon 350D with a 75-300mm lens.
For practice, I photographed a floodlit soccer game last night for the first time. Unfortunatly, out of the 292 photos I took, I am not happy with any of them :(
All of the action shots were blurred. Upon discussing this with a friend, it was as a result of my shutter speed being far too slow.
I started by using the automatic sports mode, but could see on the previews that this wasn't working, so I went manual and set the camera to ISO 1600 and f5 and then later f4.5. But I neglected to play with the shutter speed and this was set to 1/30 which this thread obviously reveals as being far too slow.
But I am not dettered and will return for more games to get more practice and (hopefully) some much better shots. |
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09/02/2005 11:55:21 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by Cagey:
I need advice on shooting indoor basketball or volleyball for a local high school. I use a D70 with either a AF-S Nikkor 18-70 or a AF-S Nikkor 24-120 VR with a SB 600 speedlight. I am getting a lot of blurred photos and need the correct settings to achieve better photos. Any suggestions? |
I took a lot of grade 7&8 girl's basketball pictures last year. The girls prefered ambient light to flash (thier uniforms were synthetic, and reflected the flash). What I learned was:
- use (and set) manual white balance.
- Set drive mode to continious. Take lots of sequences.
- if you use flash, check the Gym's lighting. If its fluorescent (all the Gyms my daughter played in were) use a CTG or green Sto-Fen diffuser on your flash so the background doesn't look too green.
- Set ISO as high as you can without grain becoming a problem. I used ISO1600, and some pictures had some grain, but it wasn't too bad when viewed at 1280x1024.
- Set Apreture Value to as wide open as possible. I used 2.8. This usually gave me shutter speeds of at least 1/125 and sometimes 1/250. 1/125 was generally fast enough. Strangely enough, most gyms had the same light level. I'll try a 50mm prime this year (its on order).
- Shoot in RAW so you can better adjust the brightness and contrast or shoot in small JPG so you can fit more pictures in the buffer when in continious drive mode.
- Try and save some space in your buffer. There's always one great shot you miss because your buffer's full.
- Set a goal for each game. This may be to try second curtain sync, or some similar technical trick. It may be to get pictures of faces and emotions. Try shooting from different locations--under the goal, at the halfway mark, from high on a stage or balcony, etc.
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09/02/2005 12:57:06 PM · #34 |
This will come in quite handy this week at the San Francisco Grand Prix :) Cycling that is and not cars :) |
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