A few basketball... advice needed!

[jdilldesigns]

Here are a few of my old HS basketball team. When i was inside taking pictures of the girls, I had he camera on AV, ISO 1600, and when i whent outside, i forgot to swich it. But if i could get some advice on the differnt mods i should use, Im going back tommorow to take pics of the guys pratice.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/RHS/s6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/RHS/s1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/RHS/ke1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/RHS/g2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/RHS/g1.jpg

[vetkrazy]

The last 2 like like they are OF or lots of motion blur. No exif data in the pics, so need alittle more info. What camera, lens, shutter speed, white balance, jpeg or raw?

[jdilldesigns]

Canon EOS 20 15-55mm, just the lense that came with the camera jpeg..

[vetkrazy]

If you can get another lens to shoot indoor with I highly recommend it. The kit lens is not designed for high speed low light:evil: . The prefered lens for basketball/volleyball is the Canon 85 f/1.8. It also doubles as a great portrait lens, fast focus and very sharp:lol: . If the budget won't allow it, try Canon's "plastic fantastic", the 50 f/1.8. Looking at the last two pics, the color cast and blur, you are going to need a faster lens.
Setting a custom white balance will also help. If you are unfamiliar with this there is a good section on it in your manual. To set the WB you can use a plastic coffee can lid, paper plate, piece of white paper or even a white uniform. My gym is so dark that I have to shoot everything in Raw. Raw gives you tremendous range in post processing your images.
Shooting Av is fine if you can get a fast enough shutter speed. I normally shoot Manual, iso 1600, CWB, f stop at 1.8-2.2 and ss at 1/500 or higher. Shooting Raw allows for some correction from the dark spots in the gym. Try to hit your exposure because under or over exposure just adds more noise to the picture. Good luck and post again soon.

[Little Fish]

Let me just add something regarding the outdoor pics. While 1600 ISO wasn't needed outside, it wasn't really your problem on those photos. The three outdoor photos all look like they were taking while looking into the sun and that puts the camera side view of the players in shadows. It could be that the ones with the sun at your back were overexposed because of the 1600 ISO and that's why they weren't posted, but if you are shooting into the sun you will have to play around with the exposure setting or else you will get a lot of underexposed subjects.

[superdiver]

You will need much faster glass for indoors...the 85mm 1.8 is the best i have seen or used so far...