Christine, Great pictures, made me smile! My daughter competed in Gymnastics thru 12th grade. The highschool gyms are dark and I used ISO 800 film at 800 and 1600. The club environments are just as dark, being run on a shoestring. (Because of the mats and equipment, gymnastics went in the oldest, dimmest high school gym where it could be left up all the time.) You'll have to do pre-focusing on spots for shots.
Having a 50-135/2.8 is great and shake reduction would have been a god send. A fast prime or two would be good along with a monopod for sure. Compared to film, noise was not a problem for you, but I like Lightroom. I liked your shots of warm-up and individual tricks. Floor exercise is my favorite place to get nice pictures of the girls. And I enjoyed your capturing of them sitting and watching together. There is a lot of that for the parents as well. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > So... yesterday, my daughter competed in her first gymnastics meet. > And (please pardon the bragging..), she did very well. Well enough, > that I think there just might be many more meets in our future. Which > is all well & good, but photographically speaking, it's like shooting > soccer in a cave.. and the cave-dwellers forbid flash. > > With my k-7 & 50-135, the results were reasonable, for what they are, > shot at 3200iso, f2.8, 1/125 sec. (I put some snaps up here: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028...@n04/sets/72157625788531640/with/5341649434/) > But, I could do with less noise. And even higher iso (or wider > apertures) could get me faster shutter speed, which would also improve > matters. > > So, I'm trying to decide where to focus my longing... > 1) a k-5? (for all the obvious reasons) > 2) faster lens? (most shots are within the 50-85mm range) > 3) noise reduction software? (I only have what's available in > ACR/cs4... open to suggestions, thoughts on this) > > What do you think? > > FWIW, I've considered asking her to switch sports. But it wouldn't > help much -- she also plays hockey... :) > > Thanks, all, > > -c > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
