Oh, and your daughter is darling as well! Bob S. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >
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