Indoor Sports Shots

[Sporto]

New to Photography and love it. I want to shoot my nefews hockey game and with the following equipment

Canon D30
Sigma 70-210 APO 2.8
Tamron 28-300 3.5- 6.3

What do you think my best settings would be to freeze action in a indoor rink? I
would be using the Sigma lens mostly

TV?
AV?
ISO?

Thanks
Gord

[SteveCliff]

It's a bit difficult to give you an definative answer on this, since without knowing where you are shooting etc, there are far too many unknown factors!

However, I personally would stick the D30 on auto and see what it comes up with. If the shutter speed doesn't seem fast enough to capture the action, then turn onto Tv priority and up the speed some (if you are hand-holding, try the usual 1/250 or faster for your Sigma and 1/300 or faster for your Tamron) and let the D30 sort out the aperture setting for you.

If you go much slower than 1/250, you will probably not freeze the action.

If you find that your are still not freezing at 1/250 and can't get any faster in the lighting conditions you have to work with, then try upping the ISO speed - ISO400 should give you acceptable pictures without too much noise creeping in - but you can ramp it way up to ISO1000 on your D30 (I think ?). The pictures you take will have quite a bit of noise in them though, but this can actually make a nice picture depending on the subject. (If it looks rubbish in colour, you can always greyscale them to black and white in photoshop etc.)

This is (of course) simply my opinion - I'm sure there are lots of other people on this forum who may give you much better advice :)

At the end of the day, bring a notepad and pen with you, take lots and *lots* of shots and note down roughly what you are doing so that when you get home you can try and match the shots to the notes and figure out the best way of doing it the next time!

Good luck!

[Dale]

Sporto wrote:
New to Photography and love it. I want to shoot my nefews hockey game and with the following equipment


Gord, I have a D30 also and have used a 50mm lens when I could get close to the ice surface and a 70-200mm when I couldn't. You can view my first try at taking in door hockey pictues at a tournament my grandson was in at:

http://www.photokaechler.com/hockey/index.htm

The camera settings are displayed for each photo.

[Sporto]

Thanks for the advice. I will try it out. Thats the nice thing about digital you have results in front of you and you can adjust from there

Gord

[Ralf Jannke]

Hi Sporto...

I think you mean icehockey?! Don´t use any exposure automatic! Work with f/2,8 and check what exposuretime is best for a good tonal range. The white ice would fool the D 30 light meter with underexposure. I do a lot of basketball. All with manual exposure f/2,8 1/400 s at ISO 1000 (D 60) and ISO 1600 (D 2000). Avoid the ISO 1600 on your D 30. You will get very much noise! I had the D 30 for over a year and switched to the D 60. You can use the D 60 ISO 1000, but you can NOT use the ISO 1600 on your D 30. All Photographers I know used ISO 800 on their D 30s and took the f/1,8 85 mm USM, the f/2 100 mm or 135 mm USM and the f/1,8 200 mm. If you like to print big fotos, try the D 30 RAW files.

Good luck, best regards from Bonn/Germany

Ralf Jannke