 Cheryl Provost |
help shooting a little league game Yesterday I shot lots of photos from mhy son's baseball game. It started about 6pm and ended about 8pm. The beginning pics seemed to be overexposed, especially of the players who are wearing all grey. Part of the field is in shade and part in sun. Will using a ND filter help cut down the light? Or do I just need to meter is differently? I'm using a Nikon d70s with a 70-300mm f/3.8-5.6 and a monopod. Thanks,
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robert G. Fately |
Chery, it sounds as though the problem is that the camera was atempting to properly expose based on the average (or perhaps center-weighted average) illumination of the entire scene, where in reality the players' grey uniforms were much brighter than the darkened field around them. So, what you want to do here is use the spot metering mode on your D70s and put the spot on a player, so the uniform gets the proper exposure. Alternately, you could use a hand-held meter to get a good incident light reading, then set the camera in manual mode so it doesn't keep changing settings in its valiant efforts to maintain the "right" exposure.
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- Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt) Contact Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt) Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt)'s Gallery |
Chery I shoot a lot at soccer games that start at 7pm. Try using your manual setting and don't forget to check the histogram, I usually leave mine on and you never miss a shot. One other thing that you may check is what your white balance is set to, clouds, sun, tungsten fluorescent etc. If you have the wrong setting it will change the colors of the picture. Try to keep the shutter speed at least 1/100. Once the sun goes down it may be tough to get good shots even at 1/60, they usually blur. One more thing I thought of is to check your ISO, when the sun goes down you may have go up to 600, 800 or even 1000. If you have the right setting you won't go wrong. Knowing your cameras every button and whistle really helps when shooting at night. Hope this helps!!
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- Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt) Contact Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt) Marcos Medina (M2PhotoArt)'s Gallery |
Sorry Chery, I thought this was an old posting....
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Cheryl Provost |
Thank you both for your input. I'll try the spot metering. If I set a custom WB using a grey card will it work whether I'm in shade or sun? I didn't even think of increasing my ISO. I'm still rather new at this so sometimes I think of things and sometimes I don't! Thanks again,
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Christopher A. Vedros |
A custom WB will only work in the specific lighting condition in which it is set. And you don't use a gray card to set a custom WB, you need to use a white card. A gray card is only used to measure exposure. Personally, I think setting a custom WB outdoors in mixed sun and shade is really unnecessary. You can set your WB to cloudy if you want to warm things up, but daylight or auto WB will probably give you the most consistent results.
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Spencer Doyle |
Once I found a decent exposure setting, I left it there all night with pretty good results. Experiment with manual settings when the lighting gets tricky.
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