MMA/Kickboxing

A few weekends ago I got to be ring side for a local MMA/Kickboxing card.

This is the second fight card I've been ringside to shoot. And was my first experience dealing with a college's gymnasium lights. I don't remember the proper term off the top of my head but the lights that cycle x amount of times per minuet. Really played havoc on keeping a good White Balance. Any of the images where the WB was way out of whack, I just converted them to B&W. But you'll still notice some color shifting in the images.

With needing a fast shutter speeds to freeze the action, my only option was to really bump up the ISO. For the night my settings stayed at 1/1000 of a second at ISO 16,000. Not ideal by any means, but I'd rather have noise over a blurry image. Went at this with my Canon 1Dx as my only body this time round since my older 1D Mk II just can't keep up with the lighting conditions. I was switching back and forth between my Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS and a Canon 24-70 f/2.8L II that I had rented from Lumiod.

I'm always open to any CC anyone on here may have.
Especially regarding any tips to keeping better composition while shooting in tight, and keeping the fighters faces better in focus (ie, focus modes/focus point selection, ect...)

Thanks for taking a look.

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