glow ball golf

My course has a tourney Thursday night. We use a glow ball and line the fairway with glow sticks. Picked that day for the full moon. I would like to get some longish exposure shots of the ball in flight. Maybe 4 to 5 seconds of ball flight. I've never tried this before. I have the tripod, a XSi and was thinking of a 10-18 wide angle to get the ball flight.
Any tips to get some quality shots would be much appreciated. Past attempts have given me a gray vs black/dark background.

What makes the ball glow?

I still own and use an XSi, it’s a good camera. But ISO 1600 is usually grainy in my experience, and I don’t know if that is enough to capture a glow ball unless it were fairly bright.

Can you get one for tonight and test it, even stationary?

The course gets them, I'm sure as a novelty item. IIRC they glow about the same as a glow stick. I tried it one year, messed up my game for a month!

This is going to be tough. The background sits there reflecting light for the whole expose but the ball is in one spot and then suddenly the next.

I'd try it on max ISO, wide open, and 5 seconds. That would probably be followed by a shake of the head and trying again.

You might have fun with putts.

Acetoolguy wrote in post #18735447
My course has a tourney Thursday night. We use a glow ball and line the fairway with glow sticks. Picked that day for the full moon. I would like to get some longish exposure shots of the ball in flight. Maybe 4 to 5 seconds of ball flight. I've never tried this before. I have the tripod, a XSi and was thinking of a 10-18 wide angle to get the ball flight.
Any tips to get some quality shots would be much appreciated. Past attempts have given me a gray vs black/dark background.

Often referred to as Night Golf.
In 4 or 5 seconds the ball will probably have landed and will be many yards away. Set up perpendicular to the Tee offf and get it coming off the tee.

Larry Johnson wrote in post #18735864
Often referred to as Night Golf.
In 4 or 5 seconds the ball will probably have landed and will be many yards away. Set up perpendicular to the Tee offf and get it coming off the tee.

The image in my head is from behind and off to the side of the golfer with a view down the fairway. The wide angle lens will allow me to get the swing, ball flight and landing in the same image. If you have watched golf on TV I'm sure you have seen those shot tracker images that trace the ball flight, I'm hoping for something like that. I'll mess with settings and hope for the best, there's always next year.

Acetoolguy wrote in post #18736059
The image in my head is from behind and off to the side of the golfer with a view down the fairway. The wide angle lens will allow me to get the swing, ball flight and landing in the same image. If you have watched golf on TV I'm sure you have seen those shot tracker images that trace the ball flight, I'm hoping for something like that. I'll mess with settings and hope for the best, there's always next year.

I'm no expert, but would guess the tiny ball would be out of camera sight in a split second. Best of luck. Post it up if it works.