If you get a chance sometime, please take a shot of your lighting setup. I've been working with available light only to date and it's just not cutting it.
If you get a chance sometime, please take a shot of your lighting setup. I've been working with available light only to date and it's just not cutting it.
My lighting set up is the sb-800 sitting on top of the camera. I bounce it off the ceiling or off the back wall. I am too lazy to set up strobes all over the place.
Wow, that high ISO sure looks nice on that D700. Those shots look good. I would like to see what difference the on camera SB800 at half power made in the shots compared with no strobe at all. I can't imagine it made much of a difference.
MD
Nikon D4, 400 2.8 AF-I, 70-200mm 2.8 VR II, 24-70 2.8
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Wow, that high ISO sure looks nice on that D700. Those shots look good. I would like to see what difference the on camera SB800 at half power made in the shots compared with no strobe at all. I can't imagine it made much of a difference.
MD
This is the same gym, same teams from an earlier game this year with no flash, 85 1.8 set at 2.2, and ISO 6400. It makes enough difference for fill light. It's painful for me to even look at these anymore.
In my opinion this is a huge improvement over your other shots. It really takes the shadows off their faces and makes things pop.
I think so too. With the ISO performance of cameras these days, it's not so much getting light to illustrate the subject as much as getting fill in light to take shadows out, much like daylight portrait photography.
Ryan Clemens www.clemensphotography.us
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If you get a chance sometime, please take a shot of your lighting setup. I've been working with available light only to date and it's just not cutting it.
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My lighting set up is the sb-800 sitting on top of the camera. I bounce it off the ceiling or off the back wall. I am too lazy to set up strobes all over the place.
MD
CBS Sports MaxPreps Shooter
http://DalbyPhoto.com
This is the same gym, same teams from an earlier game this year with no flash, 85 1.8 set at 2.2, and ISO 6400. It makes enough difference for fill light. It's painful for me to even look at these anymore.
In my opinion this is a huge improvement over your other shots. It really takes the shadows off their faces and makes things pop.
www.seanmartinphoto.com
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I think so too. With the ISO performance of cameras these days, it's not so much getting light to illustrate the subject as much as getting fill in light to take shadows out, much like daylight portrait photography.
CBS Sports MaxPreps Shooter
http://DalbyPhoto.com
www.clemensphotography.us
Canon 7D w/BG-E7 Vertical Grip, Canon 50D w/ BG-E2N Vertical Grip, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L USM, Canon 18-55mm, Canon 580EX II Flash and other goodies.
Ignorance is no excuss, so lets DGrin!
I had the light pointing straight up, bouncing off the ceiling. I also had the built in bounce card pulled out too.