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Mark Peters
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p.1 #1 · 15U Volleyball..

I've been using my daughter's 15U's games as practice for various lighting approaches.

Here's some recent efforts.

1) ISO 3200, f3.2 1/250th bounced 580ex on camera

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2) ISO 3200 f2 1/640th ambient (Love the new 135/2L)

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3) ISO 800 1/200th f3.5 Two 580ex remote triggered - direct

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4) ISO 1250 1/200th f3.2 Two 580ex's remote triggered - bounced

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Mar 31, 2008 at 04:52 AM

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p.1 #2 · 15U Volleyball..

Just curious as to why use a high ISO with a flash in pics #1 & 4.

Mar 31, 2008 at 04:57 AM

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p.1 #3 · 15U Volleyball..

Hey Mark, lighting looks pretty good on all of these. But I'd have to say that #4 is just about perfect. Ambient in #2 also looks good, though a tad noisy (duh!). It's hard to find fault with #3, but maybe just a bit too harsh with the shadow more obvious. #1 is hard to judge for some reason. Glad to hear you're liking the 135L. Looks like you've got multiple lighting options that can work for you.

Mar 31, 2008 at 05:01 AM

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p.1 #4 · 15U Volleyball..

Fish -

There are a few reasons the ISO is that high.

!) I prefer the look of the flash balanced to the Ambient.

2) I prefer the look of bounced to direct. The ceiling eats up a bunch of light.

In #1, that gym is an absolute cavern. Ambient is pretty much ISO 3200 f2 1/200th

And if direct using on camera - you spend half your processing time trying to clean up demon eyes - (not redeye which you can fix with a click of the red eye tool, but completely blown out pupils which have to be cloned in.) from the same set of matches as #4.

Here's an example at ISO 400 with direct the shadows are just too harsh - especially with having the curtain so close. May have been able to get away with it in a big open gym.

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3) Recycle time. In #4, the flashes were set at 1/3 stop under 1/2 power. To drop the ISO I would have been at full power and my recycle times (and battery comsumption) would be dramatically affected.

Russ, Thanks for the comments - #1 is soft in the face and pretty flat, but I like it for the double finger touch. Now if I could just shoot this gym each week, with it's low fairly white ceiling, I'd have it set. Unfortunatley, we don't come back here, and instead go to a couple of places with worse lighting than #1 has.

Edited on Mar 31, 2008 at 12:10 PM

Mar 31, 2008 at 12:08 PM


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