Poor lighting at venues

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Adampski

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I have a question! I'm using a canon powershot A590 IS

For venues i might attend in the future, what if the lighting wasn't all that good, and it was for a fast moving event? I'll be blunt, it's a boxing event. Today I took some pictures at my club and I noticed it was incredibly difficult to get a decent lighting setting on my camera.

So my question is, how can I deal with these poor lighting situations without lowing the shutter speed? Is there a secret or even a simple tip that I can use to help me?

Thanks.
 
I don't know the camera, so can only recommend using on or more of these:

- wide aperture
- high ISO
- flash
 
high ISO creates such bad noise! Ruines the pictures dramatically! Is there any way to avoid or remove noise? I want to the best quality i can get for these sort of situations
 
You're limited by your camera as to what you can achieve. Basically you need to choose between high iso or flash.....
 
Boxing events are usually shot with very fast lenses, something a compact cant do. For better shots you are looking at getting a better camera mate.
 
I've had difficulty shooting boxing on a D300.

Try to shoot as if you're going to convert to black and white, this might rescue more of your shots. (Noise is less apparent in black and white.)

I shot a couple of the early rounds using flash as it wasn't such a problem for the boxers (I box myself). Once they were into it though I really had to turn the flash off.
 
You turned the flash off? See if I did that, the image would be incredibly dark, even with max ISO. I mean, the flash images were ok, some turned out alright actually, obviously with some editting but some did turn out pretty dog, I think having to work with the flash is also a technique to develop? Am I right?
 
Adampski said:
You turned the flash off? See if I did that, the image would be incredibly dark, even with max ISO. I mean, the flash images were ok, some turned out alright actually, obviously with some editting but some did turn out pretty dog, I think having to work with the flash is also a technique to develop? Am I right?
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this is where your equipment is holding you back, the d300 will handle high isos far better than the canon you have, but it isnt a fair comparison.
 
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