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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 787972" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>For this week's "Balls" challenge I wanted to try taking a picture of a golf ball at the moment of impact with a driver. I set up my D500 on the Gorilla Pod tripod and spread the legs til it was just above the ground, pointing at my practice mat (with a non-PGA approved but very hip SpongeBob Squarepants ball). My original plan was to put the camera into intervalometer mode, making it a one-person operation. But my wife asked if she could help, so I attached a wired remote shutter release and handed it to her with instructions to hold down the trigger once I started my downswing.</p><p></p><p>I gotta tell you, even at 10 fps it was almost impossible! Attempt after attempt, on the playback you would see 10 pictures in a row of the ball just sitting on the tee. Then the 11th picture would just be the tee, with no ball. The clubhead was going through too fast to catch! I must have taken 40 swings with her firing away, trying different swing speeds and swing plane angles. Nope. Just ball...ball...ball...ball...<strong>no ball</strong>. Every time.</p><p></p><p>Except one. It wasn't an impact shot, but it shows one is imminent. Not good enough to enter into the challenge, but I want to post it here anyway for my own reference because of the post processing. I'll try again later, hopefully with a sucessful strike!</p><p></p><p>It was a very overcast day - almost twilight darkness in the middle of the afternoon. So with a 1/3200th shutter speed and the lens open as far as it could go, I needed an ISO of 10,000. I thought the shot didn't look absolutely hideous right out of camera, all things considered (particularly given complaints I've seen in other forums about how the D500 creates too much noise at any ISO over 500...pffff). Still, it was definitely too noisy for an entry. So I decided to see what Topas DeNoise could do with it.</p><p></p><p>On another note, that clubhead must be absolutely <em>moving</em>. 1/3200th shutter speed is enough to freeze hummingbird wings. But here, it looks like I was shooting at 1/40th!</p><p></p><p>The following pics are first, straight out of camera, no edits. Second, run through DeNoise, with some small Lightroom adjustments:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]378062[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]378063[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 787972, member: 46690"] For this week's "Balls" challenge I wanted to try taking a picture of a golf ball at the moment of impact with a driver. I set up my D500 on the Gorilla Pod tripod and spread the legs til it was just above the ground, pointing at my practice mat (with a non-PGA approved but very hip SpongeBob Squarepants ball). My original plan was to put the camera into intervalometer mode, making it a one-person operation. But my wife asked if she could help, so I attached a wired remote shutter release and handed it to her with instructions to hold down the trigger once I started my downswing. I gotta tell you, even at 10 fps it was almost impossible! Attempt after attempt, on the playback you would see 10 pictures in a row of the ball just sitting on the tee. Then the 11th picture would just be the tee, with no ball. The clubhead was going through too fast to catch! I must have taken 40 swings with her firing away, trying different swing speeds and swing plane angles. Nope. Just ball...ball...ball...ball...[B]no ball[/B]. Every time. Except one. It wasn't an impact shot, but it shows one is imminent. Not good enough to enter into the challenge, but I want to post it here anyway for my own reference because of the post processing. I'll try again later, hopefully with a sucessful strike! It was a very overcast day - almost twilight darkness in the middle of the afternoon. So with a 1/3200th shutter speed and the lens open as far as it could go, I needed an ISO of 10,000. I thought the shot didn't look absolutely hideous right out of camera, all things considered (particularly given complaints I've seen in other forums about how the D500 creates too much noise at any ISO over 500...pffff). Still, it was definitely too noisy for an entry. So I decided to see what Topas DeNoise could do with it. On another note, that clubhead must be absolutely [I]moving[/I]. 1/3200th shutter speed is enough to freeze hummingbird wings. But here, it looks like I was shooting at 1/40th! The following pics are first, straight out of camera, no edits. Second, run through DeNoise, with some small Lightroom adjustments: [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]378062._xfImport[/ATTACH] . [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]378063._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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