Boxing Portrait Attempt

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Elijah Maddoxx

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I did a boxing/fitness video shoot with my friend and attempted to take a few portraiture shots and alot of them turned out grainy, but I think I managed to do decent with what I had to work with. This is one of them.

Low lighting shots with my camera seem to be my worst nightmare. I've got the Nikon D5100 kit lens and the Nikkor 300mm lens, and the 300mm actually seems to fair better in the low light than the 55mm.

Most difficult part is getting the lens to focus in those dark conditions, no matter where I have the ISO and shutter speed.

Any tips on how to improve these conditions with the equipment I'm working with? Oh, and feedback on the pic would be awesome too. Haha! xD
 
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Pretzel

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For low light focus, when you can, shine a flashlight on the subject to dial in the focus, then turn it off for the shot before actually taking the shot. This works really well with a timer or remote.
 
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Elijah Maddoxx

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I was wondering if it was the lighting or not because there are times when I go to take the shot and it looks completely in focus on the camera, but then I snap it, and the lighting is fine, but the picture comes out fuzzy, and I know it can't be the shutter because the speed is usually at 200 or higher to prevent motion blur because some of those portraits I try to snap while he's mid motion (usually slow-mo versions of the boxing.)

That's what has me so confused.
 
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wud

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I like the image! Great pose, a little to much vignetting for my taste - and the glowing part I would adjust (right upper corner, behind his glove, the bright white line).

As for your lens, I haven't tried it, but as Pretzel say, could be there is just to little light for the lens to be able to focus.
About the blurry images, well, it CAN be a lot of things but one thing you could try reading about, is fine tuning your kit lens?

There are some links and explainations in this thread (amongst many others): http://nikonites.com/off-topic/19369-who-uses-af-fine-tune-calibrating-lenses.html#axzz2s4A6GOHY
 
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