I recently tried to photograph a number of amateur boxing matches for the club I train with. The venue was fairly dark, and obviously the fighters were moving quite quickly. Added to that, the seats were low down so all pictures were taken through the ropes. All in it was a bit of a photographic nightmare!
I was aiming for gritty, old fashioned looking photos, and the picture below features slightly washed out contrast for that faded snap look, but it's a bit grittier than I hoped for. Given the conditions I had to have the ISO as high as possible, and pictures were still under exposed! Flash wouldn't be appropriate in the venue and I couldn't realistically get up on the ring side for better shots.
Has anyone else any experience of photographing boxing or martial arts in low light? I was using a Nikon D90, with the 18-105 kit lens generally at 105mm with the aperture as open as I could get it (f5.6) ISO was 6400 I think.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34365259@N07/6187611253/
I can't work out this picture posting and I've just finished a 12 hour night shift!
I was aiming for gritty, old fashioned looking photos, and the picture below features slightly washed out contrast for that faded snap look, but it's a bit grittier than I hoped for. Given the conditions I had to have the ISO as high as possible, and pictures were still under exposed! Flash wouldn't be appropriate in the venue and I couldn't realistically get up on the ring side for better shots.
Has anyone else any experience of photographing boxing or martial arts in low light? I was using a Nikon D90, with the 18-105 kit lens generally at 105mm with the aperture as open as I could get it (f5.6) ISO was 6400 I think.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34365259@N07/6187611253/
I can't work out this picture posting and I've just finished a 12 hour night shift!
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