D3 or d700?

cornishboy

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Non league football tonight, just need a few pics for the website /programme
Need to do hospitality so can't carry everything
I have a d3, d700, a nifty 50 and a 1.4 x converter.

Which combination would be best -I will only take 1 camera

By the way when I say non-league I mean step,6 with candles for floodlights

Cheers
 
Any suggestions as to how to improve technical quality?
(Happy not to discuss composition!)
 
What camera / lens combo did you go with after? Guessing it was very dark but using a D3 I've never managed to get something as underexposed as that. My guess before knowing your settings would be a higher ISO.
 
Even with that photo its simple to tell you are shooting from the wrong location, you needed to be the other side of the goal with the available light behind you, look how the shadows are falling and how theyre only falling in the one direction which clearly says the strongest light source is coming from the corner flag area at the other side and not the side youre at, and look how bright the goalies shirt is on the right side as were looking it compared to his nearside which is in total darkness, again, this suggests no light source behind you hence no reflected light coming from where youre shooting, photography is about reflected light, everything in this photo screams out MOVE YOURSELF 20-30 METRES TO THE RIGHT
 
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Thanks, I don't tend to take photos under these conditions, but will follow the advice
 
Your profile info says you have an 80-200 f2.8? I would have used that rather than a 50mm with a 1.4 converter. Even though you would lose a stop from 1.8 to 2.8.

Regarding low light, if you are really struggling bring your shutter speed down from 1/800, you can easily go to 1/400 if needed and below depending on the action, up the ISO to whatever you're comfortable sorting out with some noise reduction or whatever looks acceptable for the print size you need. Last thing I do if needed is switch to shoot in RAW and underexpose knowing that I can batch pull all the images up in post. Many people advise against shooting RAW for sports in general but I think it has its uses, and this is one.

Here's a photo I took at a local women's game recently, the lighting was absolutely awful, almost didn't bother shooting! The metadata should still be in the image but I think it was Canon 7D, 70-200mm f2.8, 1/400, ISO 4000, shot RAW, underexposed by 2 stops and pulled back. It's a bit noisy and a bit grainy but I don't mind that

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Cornishboy, also look at the shadow direction in Steves photo, hes shooting with the main light source behind him (or as near as matters)
 
gibtheo said:
Here's a photo I took at a local women's game recently, the lighting was absolutely awful, almost didn't bother shooting! The metadata should still be in the image but I think it was Canon 7D, 70-200mm f2.8, 1/400, ISO 4000, shot RAW, underexposed by 2 stops and pulled back. It's a bit noisy and a bit grainy but I don't mind that

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Just out of interest, in fading light as the game progresses, what settings would you change first. Would you slow the shutter speed or increase the ISO? I tend to increase the ISO, but thinking I might be better dropping the shutter speed bit by bit as the light drops.

I shoot with the same lens 70-200mm f2.8, but end up at ISO6400 which makes the pics a bit too grainy and as a result quite a bit of work afterwards in lightroom.
 
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