Shooting tennis

I had the opportunity to volunteer my time taking pictures at a charity tennis tournament my friend organized. I managed to get what I think are pretty good shots for not shooting sports before. The only thing I had difficulty with is properly exposing white shirts. Several players wore white shirts and they all ended up slightly overexposed when I was shooting in sunlight. Basically when the white was properly exposed the background was dark, and when the background was properly exposed the shirts were too bright. I wasn't able to satisfactorily correct this with the RAW tools in DPP. Are there any in-camera adjustments I can make when shooting that avoid this, or something I missed while trying to correct in DPP?

This is the photo sharing forum. If you don't have any pictures to share, then this should be posted in the "Discuss Sports Photography" forum at the top of the page.

My apologies, how do I get a moderator to move it?

You could post some of the photos here or if/when the thread is moved provide details as to your camera settings

Use AV and toy with higher and lower apertures. if you meter off of his shirt you're going to generally get a darker exposure outside of that.
I would think f8/ 1000th / 1000iso might bet you a better result but its one of those things you have to practice until you get a better feel for things turning out how you want

I generally use AV and spot metering with highlight selection on and spot metering
between looking at the flashing highlights and the histogram you can get a pretty good idea of what adjustments to make to acheive the results you want

Muller wrote in post #12336608
Use AV and toy with higher and lower apertures. if you meter off of his shirt you're going to generally get a darker exposure outside of that.
I would think f8/ 1000th / 1000iso might bet you a better result but its one of those things you have to practice until you get a better feel for things turning out how you want

I generally use AV and spot metering with highlight selection on and spot metering
between looking at the flashing highlights and the histogram you can get a pretty good idea of what adjustments to make to acheive the results you want

Do you mean ISO 100, or 1000?

And I don't have spot metering on my XS. My only options are center weighted average, partial, and evaluative. I guess that's the next thing I'll really read into.

I was shooting in Tv so I was only controlling shutter speed for the stop-motion. I guess the next step for me would be to move into full manual, pick a shutter speed and aperture, and let the camera pick the ISO.

Well, white is white and always looks overexposed in bright sunlight. Here is one I took last year with more or less the same look.

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