What Have You PN Sports Shooters Shot Lately?

[holly_hammann]

I need help shooting sports, usings a Fuji s9000 - what settings,etc do I use. It doesn't appear you can change the apeture. I have a lot of noise and blur.<div></div>

[Spearhead]

Holly, this may be the wrong thread to take up the problems with your photo. You are shooting at ISO 800, which is noisy on that camera. You can try something like Noise Ninja for noise reduction. Also, you are shooting at 1/60 and almost wide open, so there isn't really enough light to do much better. If they let you use flash, consider doing that. Also, you focused on the stands, not the players, which helped contribute to the blur.

[wilsontsoi]

Holly, in addition to Jeff's comment above, your Fuji FinePix S9100 has a shoe-mount for an external flash, so you might want to put it to use (if the officials allow) since it looks like you had already maxed out at f3.9 at long end. Curiously though you used Shutter Priority mode, but at 1/60 sec. which is much too slow to stop action (not familiar with S9100, but is this the max flash sync speed?) And as a last resort, although it will yield grainier results, but given what you have to work with, you might as well try ISO-1600.

 

Another alternative approach to shooting volleyball indoor & available light with your S9100 would be to set a short focal length, which will give you f2.8 max aperture, set highest possible ISO, probably yielding 1/125sec. shutter speed, continuous drive, and sit as close as possible (on the floor) to the action, and shoot away. The shorter, wide angle focal length with a very close shooting posiiton will give a dramatic look, allow for more light gathering large aperture, and de-emphasize motion blur. Just watch out for the digs and kills coming your way on occasions (football helmet is optional.)

[dangoldman]

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