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This is photo from the munster v tigers game a couple of weeks ago .. only editing done was a crop.
Any comments suggestions & edits welcome.okay so picture quality is rubbish now I see it on the net … :(
I’m still trying to find the best settings to use when taking pictures at night games.Yes there is a bit of noise in the image but I think you are being harsh on yourself? If this was a floodlit game then no wonder you have noise, as presumably you had to bump up the ISO to the highest level. What camera and lens were you using? Obviously the telephoto lenses with the large apertures are very expensive, which is the only way to avoid having to use high ISO in low light.
Yep it was floodlit .. I am desperately trying to find the best settings.
For the HEC games I get my fathers camera – Canon 300D with a Sigma f4 100-300mm zoom on it.
I also have a Minolta 5D with it’s regular kit lens 75-300mm f4-f5.6.
Usually I end up setting it for shutter priority and let the camera deal with the ISO. But the Canon doesn’t seem to have a shutter priority mode as such .. instead it’s the manual option.I did try using high ISO manually set at a game and the noise was woeful, hence the change to using shutter priority instead. That was with the minolta.. and the camera really didn’t like the white kit Borders were wearing. :o
For shutter priority I keep trying the range between 160-250 but I haven’t quite figured out the best compromise for the noise & exposure, and frame speed.My own view is the minolta is a much much better camera than the canon, but I just don’t have the lens to go with it, hence the borrowing of my fathers kit. The sigma f4 seems to be a reasonable lens, but the canon 300D just isn’t reflecting that.
If you look at sports photographs in the newspaper of floodlight games you will notice that the noise (grain) levels can be very high indeed. It’s a compromise that is inevitable in those situations. I think we have become too hung up about noise. In the old B&W days photographers were pushing 400 ASA (I am old enough to remember ASA!) to 3200 and the grain was massive but the content of the photograph was the key. In a really good sports pic no one notices the technical stuff.
I recently got a new Canon 5D and the noise levels at 1600 ISO is very very acceptable.
I tend to get a lot of noise when I use my Canon in the same circumstances. Would also love to know how to reduce it. I set the ISO to 1600 and use the TV (Time Value??) setting – which is shutter priority on the 300D – why they couldn’t stick with standard terminology I’ll never know. I set the camera to the same shutter speed range and then adjust the exposure in Photoshop elements – seems to work reasonably well (except for the noise).
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