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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 612484" data-attributes="member: 3903">Welcome to Nikonites.You have quite a challenge on your hands. The biggest one being that the white ice is going to trick your exposure meter and if you follow the meter only you will end up with a lot of &quot;underexposes&quot; images. trying to process them makes this challenge even bigger.The second challenge is to figure out what kind of light are there. Some sodium lights or fluorescents have what we call &quot;flickering&quot;. This is a phenomena that is not perceived by the naked eye, but when using a fast shutter speed, you can fall through the crack as you could get just a part of an image with a VERY STRONG color cast that is very difficult to eliminate in post processing.So, all this being said, I suggest you go out there and do a trial run. You could use the meter in spot mode and orient it at the white ice, then (using manual settings), over-expose by about one full stop. Then take you pictures and carefully go through the lot to find out if you can get a reasonable result there. Many times, the only good solution is to set-up multiple flashes and do this with flash. At first don't expect figure skating magazine quality, because if this is what you would like, you might be in a very expensive journey:&nbsp; Full frame camera, fast prime lenses, flash with controller, etc.Good luck and feel free to show us the result of your trial runs because without anything to go with it would be very difficult for us to help you more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 612484, member: 3903"] Welcome to Nikonites. You have quite a challenge on your hands. The biggest one being that the white ice is going to trick your exposure meter and if you follow the meter only you will end up with a lot of "underexposes" images. trying to process them makes this challenge even bigger. The second challenge is to figure out what kind of light are there. Some sodium lights or fluorescents have what we call "flickering". This is a phenomena that is not perceived by the naked eye, but when using a fast shutter speed, you can fall through the crack as you could get just a part of an image with a VERY STRONG color cast that is very difficult to eliminate in post processing. So, all this being said, I suggest you go out there and do a trial run. You could use the meter in spot mode and orient it at the white ice, then (using manual settings), over-expose by about one full stop. Then take you pictures and carefully go through the lot to find out if you can get a reasonable result there. Many times, the only good solution is to set-up multiple flashes and do this with flash. At first don't expect figure skating magazine quality, because if this is what you would like, you might be in a very expensive journey: Full frame camera, fast prime lenses, flash with controller, etc. Good luck and feel free to show us the result of your trial runs because without anything to go with it would be very difficult for us to help you more. [/QUOTE]

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