Mirlyn
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Still using the Nikon at work? Ever get your action shots figured out? I'd like to try to photograph some night games sometime...
hey inky
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Inkara1
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I still have to use a flash. I broke the Tamron lens by dropping the camera getting out of my car while chasing a fire, so I bought an old Sigma lens on eBay for like $90 shipped that has similar specifications. Turns out the Sigma (and the Tamron) can do manual... that's what the m/s/c switch on the camera body is for. The Nikon lens it came with just happens to also have a manual/auto switch on it in addition to the one on the camera.
If you have a lens that will go to a 2.8 f-stop or lower you're golden. Mine will only go down to like 4.5 (and when zoomed in all the way it will only go down to a 6 f-stop) so a flash is needed. In the years since that post, I've gotten better at anticipating the shot.
Here are a couple of shots from last year that are pretty typical of what I end up with at games. I didn't brighten them to post here so you can see as much of the truth as possible; for the printed page, I open it in photoshop, use curves until it looks good on the screen (now a 19" iMac from January 2007), go to shadow/highlight and up the shadow by 15 percent or so, convert to CMYK color, up brightness by 10 and contrast by 6, then save as a .tif image.
If you have a lens that will go to a 2.8 f-stop or lower you're golden. Mine will only go down to like 4.5 (and when zoomed in all the way it will only go down to a 6 f-stop) so a flash is needed. In the years since that post, I've gotten better at anticipating the shot.
Here are a couple of shots from last year that are pretty typical of what I end up with at games. I didn't brighten them to post here so you can see as much of the truth as possible; for the printed page, I open it in photoshop, use curves until it looks good on the screen (now a 19" iMac from January 2007), go to shadow/highlight and up the shadow by 15 percent or so, convert to CMYK color, up brightness by 10 and contrast by 6, then save as a .tif image.
Inkara1
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I use a Nikon Speedlight SB-80DX that sits in the hot shoe on the top of the camera body. Surprisingly, though, I can actually get shots to be usable with the built-in flash if need be (but flash recharge time is really slow and I can't take another shot at all until it recharges). In the flash, I have four Ni-MH batteries.
