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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
12-12-2015, 08:04 PM
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Awesome! Yeah, that ceiling light is pathetic, but I love your slow shutter blur shot. To me, it takes it from the typical fast shutter technically good to the slow shutter and the art of photography. Nice!
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
12-11-2015, 02:24 PM
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Actually having the weight with the monopod helps to stabilize you. Just be realistic with your expectations as the lighting in most school gyms are no where close to arenas where it is lit for television.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
12-11-2015, 01:09 PM
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As your goal is to reduce your noise, set the ISO to 800; stay under ISO 1600. For starters, try with the fastest shutter speed with your largest aperture and review the results.
So if you're in that same gym, and were dealing with 1/250" @ f/6.3, ISO 12,800, at ISO 800, f/6.3, you're looking at 4 EVs more light needed or 1/15". If you have a monopod, use it. I've seen great results as slow as 1/4"-1/60".
And remember, it's not about how many bad shots this produces; it's about did you get some great ones? Yes, in some the torso will be sharp and not the extremities, and sometimes it's the ball or the head. At a certain point by trying different shutter speeds,
you'll find a sweet spot which is a combination of the focal length and the speed of the action. Good news is that basketball is not as fast as many other sports. Don't forget to use the Continuous Shooting mode and just make sure you have plenty of memory on the card.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
12-11-2015, 10:30 AM
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Shooting action in a badly lit gym is problematic, even with a faster prime telephoto. Losing a stop with the TC doesn't help.
When I teach an assignment on shutter speeds and shooting movement, I'll have an entire class shoot action with three techniques: a) Fastest shutter speed to freeze everything. b) Slow shutter speed with a static camera to blur the subject. c) Slow shutter speed moving with the subject to blur the background, but have a more frozen subject. When we run the open critique, looking at everyone's results, 18/20 prefer the last option (c) as "the best technique". BTW: This is typically done at 100 or 200 ISO.
Of course this means lots of bad shots and rejects, but the best of the results are excellent and if you can't use flash, if you can't get front row seats or under the basket, and if you don't have a FF with a fast telephoto prime, you either have to live with high ISO noise or try this suggestion. Note: For best results, shoot on continuous so you get bursts of shots. And then in PP I'd use something like Google Nik Collection's Dfine software if you're still not happy with noise.
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