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how to shoot action in low light floresent gym I'm shooting basketball action, can capture the action but images are dark & color is off. When I use a flash, lighting is better but I have serious red eye and shadowing behind player and most are blurred. I'm sure my settings are off. My setting have been AV-ISO 800-F stop 2.3 Please help
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Mark Feldstein |
Well Leigh, I can't offer you much if you're shooting with a digital camera. With color film, however, (negative film) you can ask the lab to correct for the flourescent light cast, which I assume is turning things green or yellow green. There are filters you can use if you're shooting with transparency film. If you shoot with black and white film, a fast film like T-Max 3200 or Ilford's equivalent, would probably help you a lot both in terms of shutter speed and avoiding the color cast, of course. Although you told us your ISO, you don't mention your shutter speed. To stop action like basketball, usually 1/ 250th of a second is sufficient, although once in awhile you can say a hail Mary and get by at 1/125th. Increasing the film speed you use or shooting at a faster ISO and faster shutter speed should solve your blurring problem unless you've got camera shake (operator error). That can be helped or eliminated using a faster shutter speed and some kind of camera support like a tripod or monopod. As to your flash problem, red eye is caused by the flash being at eye level of the subject(s) and reflecting back off the retina. Raising the flash above the lens helps, usually with some kind of bracket arrangement. For the shadows, if you shoot with some sort of diffuser over your flash you should see the shadows are less harsh or the light is softer. A diffuser though, will cost you a notch or two in terms of f-stops and/or shutter speeds. Again, a faster ISO will help.
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Diane Dupuis |
My settings are usually 1/60 F2.8, ISO 200
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Diane Dupuis |
My settings are usually 1/60 F2.8, ISO 200
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