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Munster v Leinster
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Battle at the top of the Magners League which resulted in Munster winning and claiming a 7 point lead at the top. The game kicked off at 7:30 which meant the lighting was deteriorating quickly and bumping up the ISO as the game went on.
1 – Earls goes over for the try.
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Notice the guy behind Contepomi, maybe he knew what was coming
3 – Quinny wins the lineout
4 -Bernard Jackman is stopped by Niall Ronan
5 – “Shaggy” Horgan does everything to keep O’Gara at arms reach
6 – Rob Kearney and Doug Howlett challenge for the ball
7 – Keith Earls hands off Cian Healy
Ken, a lot here all excellent and up to your normal standard.
Brilliant.
Soda
fabulous shots ken…
there’s one photo of Contepomi I saw taken that I’m waiting to see where it will surface.I wish my pictures from that game were that sharp :(
There’s just far too much noise in most of my shots. And I really don’t know if I should jack up the ISO or not. I was operating with ISO 400 and 1/500 shutter speed for pretty much the whole game. I was using a teleconverter on my F2.8 for most of the first half until things got too dark, so I took off the teleconverter.Canon 40D with Sigma 70=200mm F2.8, no IS/OS, but using monopod.
the below are post crop, but pre-resize, rotation & light adjustmentsISO 400 is suicide in that lighting conditions to be honest. You would’ve got away with it at kick off but as the light went down you really needed to bump up the ISO. I was shooting from 400-800-1250 and then 1600
lahinch_lass wrote:
I wish my pictures from that game were that sharp :(
There’s just far too much noise in most of my shots. And I really don’t know if I should jack up the ISO or not. I was operating with ISO 400 and 1/500 shutter speed for pretty much the whole game. I was using a teleconverter on my F2.8 for most of the first half until things got too dark, so I took off the teleconverter.I’d prefer to have noise than a dark blurred photo any day.
Personally, I shoot as high an ISO as I need to get a high shutter speed. Even during daytime, I will shoot ISO 400-800, just to keep the shutter speed high. Only on very bright days will I shoot ISO 100-400.
For any evening or floodlit game, I will move up through the ISO range, normally to ISO 1600.
Last night I covered a football game in my local park – no floodlights, and ended up at ISO 2000. The images were clear and sharp, but did have lots of noise. My attitude – at least I got the shot.
hmm I’ve tried iso800 in the past and found the whites ended up overblown… leaky. Not sure of the correct terminology. Basically iso800 + my camera + floodlights + white strips on munster kit was not a good combination. Is there another setting I should be changing to compensate, or help reduce the effect ??
I shoot a bit with a 40D too, and it should be fine in ISO 800.
You could use Spot Metering, to ensure that just your subject is properly exposed.
I guess you could try to directly compare some of your images with Ken’s (just the settings – ISO, Exposure, aperture, metering mode, etc) and see if that can guide you. It’s always better to judge with images taken at the same event under the same conditions.
I think I have the same setup as you LL. A Canon 40D and Sigma 70-200mm.
The pic below was taken at 1/500, f2.8 and at ISO3200!!! There is noticeable noise when viewed large but the floodlights were crap so I’m sure you could get away with 1/500 and ISO1600 or better at Thomond. You can run it through noise reduction software afterwards as well and they are very useable images then although ideally you don’t want to be going above ISO1600 on the 40D
I spot metered off the grass around 20 yards in front of me and left the camera in Manual. In the second half I moved to another area of the pitch and it was brighter so I could use ISO1600. The lights were terrible though so it was difficult to control exposure as there were bright and dark spots all over the pitch. I had to brighten and darken some images afterwards.
I would probably have been better off using Av at f2.8 and ISO1600 and letting the camera calculate the shutter speed but I prefer to use manual as the camera works faster as it has no calculating to do! Or so I was told! I’m no expert at this though as this was my first attempt under lights.
Anyway, as Paul said, it’s better to have noisy images than none at all!!
lahinch_lass wrote:
fabulous shots ken…
there’s one photo of Contepomi I saw taken that I’m waiting to see where it will surface.Just for you!
I was cursing those electronic hoardings for ruining some of my shots, but I had spotted the advert for limited edition – then when Contepomi was lining up the kick I thought I would never be so lucky. :D Great player but had a bad night at the office.
I have been setting the shutter speed to 500 on TV (shutter priority) and using 1600 ISO and let the camera do the rest. I make whatever adjustments needed to the exposure in Adobe RAW. Then I use noise reduction software (Noise Ninja) which does soften the image a bit and finally I use “unsharp mask”. This last bit make a big difference.
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