7D ISO noise

Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? ISO is 800 I mostly shoot 200 because I am afraid of noise. But I had no other choice.

I know the answer is its just me, I just need to hear it from some one other than me.

100% crop seemed noisy to me
Never mind about the soft focus thats something totally different the kid was jumping a bike and I didnt have my shutter speed fast enough. That I know is just me

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This was 100% crop?

Then a few things:
1) Get a longer-reaching lens if you want to just frame the face/helmet for a photo.
2) Higher shutter speed. There is motion blur.
3) The face is underexposed (because the background is so bright). I'm sure the overall photo looks okay as there's hardly any appreciable noise in the background and what you're seeing is primarily noise in the face.
4) Did I already mention getting a real telephoto lens if you want to crop away 95% of the entire image?
5) Stop pixel-peeping and see points #1 & #4 above.

Post the entire (web-resized) image and then look at your crop and the resized image side-by-side. If you don't see how ridiculous you are with pixel-peeping, then I can't help you.

To fix this, you could always attach strobes on the helmet and have it fire so that the face is properly lit. Not practical but I'm just saying.

Hehe. Only way to combat that (without fill-flash) would be to spot-meter for the face. But if you do that.. you'll end up with a floating head/face (but properly exposed). Just the background and rest of the photo will be BOBAR'd (burnt out beyond all recognition).

jwcdds wrote in post #10524974
Hehe. Only way to combat that (without fill-flash) would be to spot-meter for the face. But if you do that.. you'll end up with a floating head/face (but properly exposed). Just the background and rest of the photo will be BOBAR'd (burnt out beyond all recognition).

Yeah it was a total clutser F ***

The starting ramp is half shade half sun, then they go to full sun, then full shade

Then these guys and gals are jumping up and down. I can do left to right / right to left. But dont throw the up and down in

jwcdds I have the same camera and grip and flash ...... our lenses are a little different lol
Instead of on board helmet cams they will have on board helmet 580EXII aimed at their eyes so I get a catch light

That or they should just come up with transparent helmet. It's made of plastic anyways!

Yeah. IMO, the photo you captured looks great for where you were shooting from.

jwcdds wrote in post #10525143
That or they should just come up with transparent helmet. It's made of plastic anyways!

Yeah. IMO, the photo you captured looks great for where you were shooting from.

God that would be great! lol the dark padding is the part you dont want to see anyways you have your million dollar idea

30 feet away at 240mm yeah it was over kill, but thank you very much

I don't see any issues with noise on the 100% crop. Therefore you are fine.

nicksan wrote in post #10525350
I don't see any issues with noise on the 100% crop. Therefore you are fine.

THANK YOU!!!

the problem with the picture only leaves one thing

its between the monitor and the chair