Night Sports Action Pictures? Blurry or Grainy?????

infiniteMPG wrote:
The lighting isn't that great as it's a private soccer club and not
stadium lighting. I was shooting in RAW and had bumped my ISO setting
around from 200 to 800,

You can up the ISO to 1600 and underexpose one or two stops,
then push in post processing. You'll want some intelligent noise
remover, though. That should give you a better chance for fast
enough shutter speed and may even let you stop down a tiny bit.

At least try it and then evaluate the results at your usual
viewing/print size.

bumped the shutter speed around between 60 and
320,

1/60s is often too slow already for people who don't move
much --- and unless you are very good at holding the camera steady,
your 90mm lens on a 1.5x crop camera indicates you should shoot
faster than 1/125s.

and toyed with most stuff I could try, but the shots would either
come our grainy (too high an ISO setting?) or blurry (too slow a
shutter speed).

Grainy you can live with, blurry you cannot.

-Wolfgang

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message
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Grainy you can live with, blurry you cannot.

-Wolfgang

... although the /occasional/ blur can add to a shot.

David

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:23:44 GMT, "David J Taylor"
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"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message
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Grainy you can live with, blurry you cannot.

-Wolfgang

.. although the /occasional/ blur can add to a shot.

Not according to the football booster moms I shoot for...

heh, heh...

"Bowser" wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:23:44 GMT, "David J Taylor"
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"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message
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Grainy you can live with, blurry you cannot.

-Wolfgang

.. although the /occasional/ blur can add to a shot.

Not according to the football booster moms I shoot for...

heh, heh...

There's no pleasing /some/ people! G

David

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:28:13 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

"Bowser" wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:23:44 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote:

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote in message
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Grainy you can live with, blurry you cannot.

-Wolfgang

.. although the /occasional/ blur can add to a shot.

Not according to the football booster moms I shoot for...

heh, heh...

There's no pleasing /some/ people! G

Well, this one, taken yesterday, earned me some brownie points. No,
make that some real brownies:

http://www.manzi.org/pix/7dfb3.jpg

#81 ran a nice route on a "meet me at the corner" play. The ball was a
little high but we went up high and caught it. Nice play.

"Bowser" wrote in message
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Well, this one, taken yesterday, earned me some brownie points. No,
make that some real brownies:

http://www.manzi.org/pix/7dfb3.jpg

#81 ran a nice route on a "meet me at the corner" play. The ball was a
little high but we went up high and caught it. Nice play.

Excellent, Bowser, just what I meant about a little occasional blur adding
to the shot.

Cheers,
David

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:56:29 GMT, "David J Taylor"
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"Bowser" wrote in message
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Well, this one, taken yesterday, earned me some brownie points. No,
make that some real brownies:

http://www.manzi.org/pix/7dfb3.jpg

#81 ran a nice route on a "meet me at the corner" play. The ball was a
little high but we went up high and caught it. Nice play.

Excellent, Bowser, just what I meant about a little occasional blur adding
to the shot.

True, and I got the slight hand and foot blur when the receiver moved
from sun to shadow, and ths shutter speed dropped. I usually shoot
aperture-preferred.

As you can tell, I have no artistic ability, so I usually go for the
frozen moment shots. Parents love 'em...