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Upcoming project - Tips for possible low light, fast motion captures?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 11062" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>You will be facing the same problems when trying to shoot basketball or volleyball in a gym, not enough light for good stop action. In a training gym you will have general lighting similar to what you will find in any gym. In a match you will have subdued lighting around the ring with most of the lighting overhead lighting up the ring. This type lighting will cause downcast shadows and you will have to compensate for that in your exposures. They probably won't allow flash at a match since a flash could cause a fighter to lose his concentration or momentarily distract him which would not be good. Use as fast a lens as you can afford. A lens with VR will be your best friend. Getting good exposures will be a matter of practice and experimentation for the best settings. The training gym will be your training gym as well. The D90 will take very good shots in the 1000-1250 ISO range which will help get the shutter speed up for stop action. White Balance will always be a problem. I would suggest using an 18% gray card, even a white sheet of copy paper will do, and do a WB preset before a match. The D90 will allow you to store up the five WB presets. Once you find a good WB for a particular gym or match ring store it for subsequent shooting sessions. And by all means have business cards printed up to give out to other fighters and fight promoters. They all want and need photos for promotion and advertising. Don't limit yourself to just your friend. He is the ticket to get into the game but there is more money to be made in volume. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 11062, member: 654"] You will be facing the same problems when trying to shoot basketball or volleyball in a gym, not enough light for good stop action. In a training gym you will have general lighting similar to what you will find in any gym. In a match you will have subdued lighting around the ring with most of the lighting overhead lighting up the ring. This type lighting will cause downcast shadows and you will have to compensate for that in your exposures. They probably won't allow flash at a match since a flash could cause a fighter to lose his concentration or momentarily distract him which would not be good. Use as fast a lens as you can afford. A lens with VR will be your best friend. Getting good exposures will be a matter of practice and experimentation for the best settings. The training gym will be your training gym as well. The D90 will take very good shots in the 1000-1250 ISO range which will help get the shutter speed up for stop action. White Balance will always be a problem. I would suggest using an 18% gray card, even a white sheet of copy paper will do, and do a WB preset before a match. The D90 will allow you to store up the five WB presets. Once you find a good WB for a particular gym or match ring store it for subsequent shooting sessions. And by all means have business cards printed up to give out to other fighters and fight promoters. They all want and need photos for promotion and advertising. Don't limit yourself to just your friend. He is the ticket to get into the game but there is more money to be made in volume. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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