HS Wrestling_My First Attempt

[pyterps]

Please let me know what you think. I did some cropping--is is too tight?

EOS DRebel at 1600 ISO and 70-300.

[Dandaman_24]

They look out of focus / camera shake.

[timmyquest]

I'm not seeing that, i'm seeing, first and foremost, noise reduction software...to the max.

And also a slightly slow shutter speed.

[pyterps]

The lighting did not seem that bad but at 1600 I still could not get a fast enough shutter speed to really stop the action. I was even using a flash. Any advice

[timmyquest]

The lighting did not seem that bad but at 1600 I still could not get a fast enough shutter speed to really stop the action. I was even using a flash. Any advice


With your camera/flash it's gonna be tough. There are a few options i guess.

The first, and perhaps best, would be to get faster lenses. You might be better off shooting with your f/2.8 lens.

The second, SHOOT IN RAW, you can shoot for shutter speed and sacrafice a little image qualtiy by under exposing and then bumping it up in PS or C1 or whatever you may use to convert your Raw files.


Whenever i shoot sports in these gyms i shoot almost a full stop under, i lose detail, but it enables me to maintain decent shutter speeds in these horribly lit gyms.

Lastly, what mode was your camera in?

Of course, you could always get a 20D and shoot at ISO 3200 too :-)

[rebel61021]

I have a son in wrestling and I have taken the crash couse in gym photo's the best advice I can give is use a f2.8 lens and a flash. I shoot in manuel mode and shoot at f2.8 with a shutter speed at 1/250at ISO 1600 and they turn out not bad. This one the gym was lit pretty good had the f/3.2.

[pyterps]

Thanks all for all the tips. Some of these I was thinking about already. Not sure why I did it but looked at setting the camera to raw but stuck with JPEG for some reason.

[timmyquest]

I'm just wondering if you were shooting in AV. If you were your shutter speeds will not be fast enough, and your flash will be used for nothing but fill.