Varsity Wrestling - 1st try

During football season I provided shots to the hometown paper for both their print and on line newspapers. I received a call last week to shoot a wrestling tournament at a local high school. There were six mats but I only needed to get shots of the local high schools, Folsom and Vista.

I shot with my 7D, 70-200 f/2.8 L and 580EXII. I wasn't sure what my camera/flash settings should be so I used the same logic as I learned for flashed football. I tried to keep the gym exposed -2 and set the flash for +1/3 in ETTL mode. My iso changed from 1000 to 800 and I adjusted my f/ stop around, but settled on f/4.

Since this was my first try at wrestling, any C&C would be appreciated.

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I don't think you needed ISO 800, especially at 70 mm? Gonna try and get permission to flash a wrestling meet on Tuesday.. planning on bouncing off white walls/ceiling with a dark wrestling mat.. but we'll see.. pretty sure there won't be anyone complaining but I don't want to shoot direct either (I don't have the stuff to take use flash 'off camera' yet.

The white "uniforms" look pretty blown out. Were you using direct flash?

HarleyHuffman wrote in post #11491580
The white "uniforms" look pretty blown out. Were you using direct flash?

Yes I was using direct flash. I tried to calm the whites down in post, but I still haven't mastered post processing.

i would of liked to see some shots panned out, they all seem cropped too tight for my taste.

ca7696 wrote in post #11499360
i would of liked to see some shots panned out, they all seem cropped too tight for my taste.

agree here......and agree with the whites being hot.

But.... cropping tight reduces the inevitable poor backgrounds at a wrestling meet.