oh, and great pics, I forgot to say. admire her discipline and diligence, too (or she wouldn't be where she is in her sport) and the picture of her on the podium with the Kamik boots is cute - was it that cold there? be proud =) ecke
2011/1/10 Christine Nielsen <[email protected]>: > 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.
