Need Some Advice

Taking pictures in an indoor paintball field. Im having trouble getting good action shots as well as good lighting. Any advice for better shots of moving targets under artificial lighting?? I just got An Rebel EOS XSI. Pointers & critique is welcome.
Aprecciate it
--Oickle

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Not much you can do in low lighting situations. Here is what you can do:

1) Shoot tighter. You aren't tight enough on the picture above.
2) Max the ISO on your camera. Better to have a noisy picture you can correct later than not capture the moment at all.
3) Open up your aperture as much as you can.

If you're on pbnation stop by the photomob in OT: P..General rule of thumb for paintball is get low and fill your frame. I don't honestly bother shooting with indoor, there's just not much that can be done effectively in the lighting, you could try shooting in raw and see what you could salvage as well. The dude on the right looks SO MUCH like a local dude named Dallas, even the HK jersey is the same.

swashbuckler wrote in post #11500462
Not much you can do in low lighting situations. Here is what you can do:

1) Shoot tighter. You aren't tight enough on the picture above.
2) Max the ISO on your camera. Better to have a noisy picture you can correct later than not capture the moment at all.
3) Open up your aperture as much as you can.

+1

Would using a flash be acceptable?

merlin2375 wrote in post #11502211
+1

Would using a flash be acceptable?

not likely..like I said, play indoor, shoot outdoor.

The shots are under-exposed. Since you're using flash, bump up the FEC

swashbuckler wrote in post #11500462
Not much you can do in low lighting situations. Here is what you can do:

1) Shoot tighter. You aren't tight enough on the picture above.
2) Max the ISO on your camera. Better to have a noisy picture you can correct later than not capture the moment at all.
3) Open up your aperture as much as you can.

+1^

Hi,

Suggestions . . .

1. See if you can get access to the indoor facility before or after normal operations are done, also arranging for your models/subjects to come at these times to do a static photo shoot.

2. Plan the shots you want to shoot, then pose your subjects so they are not moving at all. Set up your camera on the course so you can get shots of the subjects that show their frontal features. This will assure interesting shots and angles, and allow you to really concentrate on composition elements within your frame.

3. Always use a tripod.

Good luck

:facepalm: no one in the paintball industry uses tripods to shoot paintball, the key is to lie down, and bringing in models for static shots is also unnecessary, you will be frowned upon in the paintball photography community if you pose/fake your shots.. It usually helps to have some experience shooting something before you give advice on how to do it.

hairyjames wrote in post #11519617
Hi,

Suggestions . . .

1. See if you can get access to the indoor facility before or after normal operations are done, also arranging for your models/subjects to come at these times to do a static photo shoot.

2. Plan the shots you want to shoot, then pose your subjects so they are not moving at all. Set up your camera on the course so you can get shots of the subjects that show their frontal features. This will assure interesting shots and angles, and allow you to really concentrate on composition elements within your frame.

3. Always use a tripod.

Good luck

For real? I cant tell if you are making a joke or being serious. lol

Anyway, I agree with swashbuckler. Higher ISO and wide aperture. I assume you are using the 18-55 kit lens?