Photograph at Swimming Pool.

Hi,

I'm trying to take photograph @ swimming pool and want to freeze when my daughter jumps from diving board.

I setup the tv (speed) to 100 or 125 which freezes the kids jumping from diving board but the picture get bit dark because AV value is blinking. I think it get under exposed.

If i use slower speed in that case the pictures is not sharp.

What kind of setting you suggest?

I also seutp to AWB to White flourscent because that is kind of light in the pool.

I'm suing canon xsi with 70-300mm lens.

Thanks in advance.

P

You'll want a shutter speed of about 1/1000 sec. to freeze water and kid going in.

If its too dark, adjust the ISO to 400 if you must.

Use daylight balance - not flouresent.

My $0.02.

Switch to Av mode. Since you are indoors, start off with your ISO at 800. Zoom out to the maximum zoom you will need and set your aperture to the lowest number it will accept. Next, compose where you will be shooting and see what shutter speed you get. If it is greater than 1/2000, which will almost never happen indoors, lower the ISO. If it is slower than 1/800 increase the ISO to 1600. If you get to ISO 1600 that will be about your max capability regarding the shutter speed so you will have to live with what you get.

You are also better off overexposing by 1/3 stop at the higher ISO. It really helps keep down the noise.

AWB with Canon is also just fine. Virtually all indoor athletic lighting has so much variation in color temperature due to the cycling of the lights that shot to shot the variation is very noticable. If you want to improve WB beyond what the AWB setting will provide you will need to get a grey card and do a custom WB setup but will still suffer from the light cycle variation and will not get perfect results. If you shoot RAW you will have much better control over WB variation as you process the shots on your computer.

Hope that helps and good luck.

Sorry to sound harsh, but until you get a better understanding of aperture, shutter and ISO, you've got quite some way to go.

If you experiment with some different settings in different priorities, you'll be able to see how your images came out and learn by trial and error. It'll be fun, trust me.

Big K wrote in post #6163311
My $0.02.

Switch to Av mode. Since you are indoors, start off with your ISO at 800. Zoom out to the maximum zoom you will need and set your aperture to the lowest number it will accept. Next, compose where you will be shooting and see what shutter speed you get. If it is greater than 1/2000, which will almost never happen indoors, lower the ISO. If it is slower than 1/800 increase the ISO to 1600. If you get to ISO 1600 that will be about your max capability regarding the shutter speed so you will have to live with what you get.

You are also better off overexposing by 1/3 stop at the higher ISO. It really helps keep down the noise.

AWB with Canon is also just fine. Virtually all indoor athletic lighting has so much variation in color temperature due to the cycling of the lights that shot to shot the variation is very noticable. If you want to improve WB beyond what the AWB setting will provide you will need to get a grey card and do a custom WB setup but will still suffer from the light cycle variation and will not get perfect results. If you shoot RAW you will have much better control over WB variation as you process the shots on your computer.

Hope that helps and good luck.

I don't know about the OP but I'm grateful for information like this. Thanks

Gamb wrote in post #6170154
I don't know about the OP but I'm grateful for information like this. Thanks

You are welcome. Hope it helps.