So I wanted to share some links with you again…

My favorite thing to shoot is sports. Football, soccer, RC cars, and every other outdoor sport I haven’t mentioned..

There is one problem I’m beginning to experience though and that the issue regarding having enough light… That’s why sports are best shot in the morning or in the late afternoon. If you shot when the sun is at its highest, you get harsh shadows, and hard ugly light.

If you shoot to late when it’s too dark, even under stadium lights, there’s usually not enough light to stop the action (preferably 1/400 and up (or down depending on how you like to view it)). The only way to get high enough shutter speeds is to bump up the sensitivity of the cmos sensor, losing critical info in the image, making it grainy, aka stepping up the ISO.

Now if this was a stationary object we were trying to take pictures of, we would in this situation add artificial light and fix the problem that way.

So why not just do that when shooting sports in low light. A lot of youth football games are played in the afternoon when there’s little light.

If you’re interested in shooting sports in low light situations check out these links. They’ve taught me a lot about what to do when shooting sports in low light situations.

Basically what you want to do is to stop the action with the light of the flash instead of just the shutter speed.

http://www.theimageengineer.com/2008/07/night-football-with-flash/

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/813688/0?keyword=flash,football#7525059

http://www.theimageengineer.com/2008/12/girls-basketball-with-off-camera-flash/

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