I love shooting in horrible light. I have sort of made it my specialty. Give me a weird gym, BB court, bar, arena, whatever. It is a good challenge and I love it. WB seems to be the key for me. Without it all seems be be lost. Setting it manually with some sort of device is great. I like the expo disk. Fast and easy. This gets you very close but not perfect. I find if WB is off too far you fake yourself out with exposure.
I love shooting in horrible light. I have sort of made it my specialty. Give me a weird gym, BB court, bar, arena, whatever. It is a good challenge and I love it. WB seems to be the key for me. Without it all seems be be lost. Setting it manually with some sort of device is great. I like the expo disk. Fast and easy. This gets you very close but not perfect. I find if WB is off too far you fake yourself out with exposure.
Well, in most rinks, I just white balance off the ice ...
As an aside, I've figured out that half of my issues are in my head. I did a "drive by shooting" (used to be called a five-in-five in the old days) and came out with something reasonable.
I htink I have to learn to trust 6400 ISO in the new camera. But it is about light, for sure.
Newspaper photogs specialize in drive-by shootings.
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Well, in most rinks, I just white balance off the ice ...
I htink I have to learn to trust 6400 ISO in the new camera. But it is about light, for sure.
In some (read most) rinks the custom WB is near impossible to set because of the lights cycling. In those cases shooting RAW is your best friend in post processing. I still pack a white card and my Spyder Cube; and, I use it when it looks to add value. I count myself lucky if the lighting is all the same across the rink and the bulbs are color matched.
Shooting high ISO works best if the exposure is set correctly - not underexposed. This way you are not increasing the noise in post processing when bringing up the exposure. In otherwords, I trust that shooting ISO6400 is better than shooting ISO3200 and bringing it up a full stop in post. This is given the equipment and software that I use; and, it is based on trial and error. Again, this could be different with every camera and the processing software - so experiment.
I offer up a ISO6400 from a recent game... no real action, but a sample ISO6400 in bad lighting.
The other end of the rink I could shoot ISO5000 because there weren't any bulbs burnt out...
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Well, in most rinks, I just white balance off the ice ...
As an aside, I've figured out that half of my issues are in my head. I did a "drive by shooting" (used to be called a five-in-five in the old days) and came out with something reasonable.
I htink I have to learn to trust 6400 ISO in the new camera. But it is about light, for sure.
Forum for Canadian shooters: www.canphoto.net
In some (read most) rinks the custom WB is near impossible to set because of the lights cycling. In those cases shooting RAW is your best friend in post processing. I still pack a white card and my Spyder Cube; and, I use it when it looks to add value. I count myself lucky if the lighting is all the same across the rink and the bulbs are color matched.
Shooting high ISO works best if the exposure is set correctly - not underexposed. This way you are not increasing the noise in post processing when bringing up the exposure. In otherwords, I trust that shooting ISO6400 is better than shooting ISO3200 and bringing it up a full stop in post. This is given the equipment and software that I use; and, it is based on trial and error. Again, this could be different with every camera and the processing software - so experiment.
I offer up a ISO6400 from a recent game... no real action, but a sample ISO6400 in bad lighting.
The other end of the rink I could shoot ISO5000 because there weren't any bulbs burnt out...