I've been learning to do swimming and diving meets lately. The swimming photos are OK, but for diving I really need to get up to 1/500 shutter speed to freeze the diver. Unfortunately, that means raising the ISO and getting more noise.
Here's one of my recent attempts that didn't turn out so well...
Now here's what I wish I could do. A friend showed up with his Nikon D3. Here's the same shot from his camera...
Both these images were taken at basically the same settings (1/500, f/2.8, ISO6400, 70mm). Now I know his camera cost way more than a K20D, and it's full frame, so it gathers more light at the same zoom. So the first thing I think I need to do is use a shorter lens for the diving and crop where necessary. Does that make sense? And what else would you recommend to get better results?
Last edited by klh; 12-06-2009 at 04:49 PM.