I was on holiday with some friends. One of them has a motorboat and wakeboard equipment.
I took some action shots of us wakeboarding. I set the camera to M-Mode with 1/1000th seconds shutter speed and apperature to 8-11 depending on the lighting, hoping to get sharp images. I tried several autofocus modes, continous with 3-D tracking and auto selection of focus points as well as manual focusing on the distance (which is fairly consistant due to the string which the wakeboarder is holding).
In my opinion I got the best results with contious auto focus and auto selection of focus points. I would like to hear your opinons about that. 3-D tracking seemed to work only when the subject (the wakeboarder) is in the middle of the frame in the begining?
The boat was jumping over the waves so it was a lot of "spraying and praying" because I could not aim properly. I set VR to on and active mode. The images look grainier than normal. Is that due to the movement and the shaking of the camera or due to the "active" VR?
Another question concerns post processing:
Because of the difficult lighting during the shooting, I often ended up with dark, back-lit, subjects (first image).
When I pull out the shadows (second image) in lightroom the subject seems to glow, which looks kinda weired. What do you think is better and more flattering?
All in all I think my D750 did a nice job and it was really challanged for the fist time. Weather sealing was useful bacause of the splashes and burst rate and auto-focus were way better than in my "old" D3200. The friend in these images told me "why buy a camera for 2.500 € when you can take pictures with your phone?". After he saw the results he had to admit that his phone could not take such pictures.
I took some action shots of us wakeboarding. I set the camera to M-Mode with 1/1000th seconds shutter speed and apperature to 8-11 depending on the lighting, hoping to get sharp images. I tried several autofocus modes, continous with 3-D tracking and auto selection of focus points as well as manual focusing on the distance (which is fairly consistant due to the string which the wakeboarder is holding).
In my opinion I got the best results with contious auto focus and auto selection of focus points. I would like to hear your opinons about that. 3-D tracking seemed to work only when the subject (the wakeboarder) is in the middle of the frame in the begining?
The boat was jumping over the waves so it was a lot of "spraying and praying" because I could not aim properly. I set VR to on and active mode. The images look grainier than normal. Is that due to the movement and the shaking of the camera or due to the "active" VR?
Another question concerns post processing:
Because of the difficult lighting during the shooting, I often ended up with dark, back-lit, subjects (first image).
When I pull out the shadows (second image) in lightroom the subject seems to glow, which looks kinda weired. What do you think is better and more flattering?
All in all I think my D750 did a nice job and it was really challanged for the fist time. Weather sealing was useful bacause of the splashes and burst rate and auto-focus were way better than in my "old" D3200. The friend in these images told me "why buy a camera for 2.500 € when you can take pictures with your phone?". After he saw the results he had to admit that his phone could not take such pictures.