[ratpack] Re: Insomnia can be fun...I think
- From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:05:48 -0700
Since you brought up grainy, I thought I would share my grainy weekend.
I went to a basketball game to shoot one of my neighbor's daughter, who
is a cheerleader for Jordan High, cute girl, not very photogenic though.
I had to set my camera on auto and 3200 iso, and let the grain begin. I
set it at higher iso settings (Nikon changes from a number to HI1 or
something after 3200 iso) and I could tell on the LCD that they were
quickly turning to junk!!!! While I was thus shooting, another neighbor
asked if I would shoot one of the Jordan b-ball players, since her
daughter was dating him. That's when the real blurriness came into play.
When I got home, I was very disappointed with the results. The b-ball
player was very blurry and grainy, the cheerleader was grainy and
blurry. My lens sucks for indoor action, at least when it is out of
reach of a flash. Indoor sports photographers must all have $25,000
lenses with 1.4 aperture. Now I have tried to shoot my kids basketball
games and been disappointed by that before, but the gyms my kids play in
are a little dark and drab, this one was really lit up well. I got a lot
of orange from the floor too, which was a little strange. All in all
very disappointing results.
Anyone else have the same experience in a gym?
Larr
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Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 5:42 AM
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Subject: [ratpack] Insomnia can be fun...I think
Since I was awake, anyhow, I thought I'd test some stuff with the 7D. I
had a hell of a time with it at the Auto Expo. I got enough good shots
to put on my server as "the first shoot of the year" but there were
enough non-keepers to be frustrating. Here's the url for what I have on
the server now:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/cruisin2010/Welcome.html The format
of that will change asap cuz I've come up with another hare-brained
scheme for a navigation schema. More news as it happens.
The attached photo is one of the "usual suspects"...that is from my
front window (Weather Window.) That seems to be a "constant" I use for
testing one thing or another. One of the things I tested this morning
was the ISO 6400 setting. Man! Talk about grainy! On that image, I
just cropped a little and resized it for web posting.This thought struck
me: (Whap!) The shot may be grainy, but it serves the purpose of
providing a 3.2 second exposure (at f22) rather than 30 seconds at 800
ISO.
I think I may have played around with the 7D to feel slightly confident
with it...except for flash photography. I need to work on that a
bit....uhhh...no, a lot.
Since I'm not the most lucid of creatures at the moment (totally
exhausted but can't sleep) I'm just gonna close this out and see if I
can put a dent in the huge "to do" list.
One quick thing: I may have an inside track to get FIM credentials for
the Superbike race. I'm not sure yet, but it looks promising.
RtR
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