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Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

Camera geeks- I need help! Shooting Cross Country running. Can't set manual because the conditions change way to fast. For some reason my sport mode is washing out everything looks blanched. I can correct by going into the editor but at 600 pics last meet this is ridiculous. Is this my camera (which is not that old but probably has 50K pics on it) or my lens 70-300 IS (has about 80K pics)? I can take great photos but only because I have learned by experiment. Don't have enough knowledge to figure out what the hell is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

leswp1 said:
Camera geeks- I need help! Shooting Cross Country running. Can't set manual because the conditions change way to fast. For some reason my sport mode is washing out everything looks blanched. I can correct by going into the editor but at 600 pics last meet this is ridiculous. Is this my camera (which is not that old but probably has 50K pics on it) or my lens 70-300 IS (has about 80K pics)? I can take great photos but only because I have learned by experiment. Don't have enough knowledge to figure out what the hell is going on. Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you sure that something else isn't set wrong? Maybe they are being overexposed due to exposure settings. If not...


70-300? Can I assume you're taking photos from a distance?

For shooting sports outside, where sun can change quickly or exposure can change depending on which direction you're looking, I'd suggest using the AV setting. This bases the shutter speed on the f-stop setting that you choose. For sports, most people like a shallow depth of field, so set it as low as it will go. Some 70-300s will be able to go to 2.8, many others are in the 4.5 range.

Setting it low will have your subject in focus and the background blurry. Once set in AV, the camera will automatically choose the shutter speed that it believes will expose your shot correctly, based on how it's reading the lighting.

The other consideration will be shutter speed as a running (moving) subject will require a faster speed. If they're bigger/older kids, it's likely that 1/320 will be the minimum speed that you can get away with. The camera will take care of this for you, but if it's an overcast day, the camera may have to choose a shutter speed around, say 1/100, which will most likely give you blurry subjects.

If you're seeing slow shutter speeds due to lower lighting, bump up the iso setting to 200, 400 or 800 until you see the speeds in the range where you need them.


Hope this helps. I've shot thousands and thousands (and THOUSANDS) of lacrosse, baseball & hockey photos. :o


I love talking camera geek stuff. :D
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

Gurtholfin said:
Are you sure that something else isn't set wrong? Maybe they are being overexposed due to exposure settings. If not...


70-300? Can I assume you're taking photos from a distance?

For shooting sports outside, where sun can change quickly or exposure can change depending on which direction you're looking, I'd suggest using the AV setting. This bases the shutter speed on the f-stop setting that you choose. For sports, most people like a shallow depth of field, so set it as low as it will go. Some 70-300s will be able to go to 2.8, many others are in the 4.5 range.

Setting it low will have your subject in focus and the background blurry. Once set in AV, the camera will automatically choose the shutter speed that it believes will expose your shot correctly, based on how it's reading the lighting.

The other consideration will be shutter speed as a running (moving) subject will require a faster speed. If they're bigger/older kids, it's likely that 1/320 will be the minimum speed that you can get away with. The camera will take care of this for you, but if it's an overcast day, the camera may have to choose a shutter speed around, say 1/100, which will most likely give you blurry subjects.

If you're seeing slow shutter speeds due to lower lighting, bump up the iso setting to 200, 400 or 800 until you see the speeds in the range where you need them.


Hope this helps. I've shot thousands and thousands (and THOUSANDS) of lacrosse, baseball & hockey photos. :o


I love talking camera geek stuff. :D
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Thanks. This is the 4th yr of shooting (somewhere around 80K but probably more) of images and have never had this issue. It is happening with both stills and running shots, cloudy or regular weather. I rarely take on a shorter lens. I have never had this problem and have used the settings I have pretty much the whole time. It also seems to be struggling to capture the subject on auto focus.

I probably need to get my camera and lens serviced but it goes away for a month if I do that and I can't spare it that long. What I am really pondering is do I look into replacing something or not. The lens is old- I think 5 yrs. The camera is maybe 2. The lesn has been out for service last yr. I think it doesn't owe me anything but it is so expensive
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

leswp1 said:
Thanks. This is the 4th yr of shooting (somewhere around 80K but probably more) of images and have never had this issue. It is happening with both stills and running shots, cloudy or regular weather. I rarely take on a shorter lens. I have never had this problem and have used the settings I have pretty much the whole time. It also seems to be struggling to capture the subject on auto focus.

I probably need to get my camera and lens serviced but it goes away for a month if I do that and I can't spare it that long. What I am really pondering is do I look into replacing something or not. The lens is old- I think 5 yrs. The camera is maybe 2. The lesn has been out for service last yr. I think it doesn't owe me anything but it is so expensive
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Could be the camera body as they're typically good for 50-60k photos - that's what most will say is their expected life.

Do you have a way to email me one of the photos? I could look at the meta data and see if anything jumps out.
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

Gurtholfin said:
Could be the camera body as they're typically good for 50-60k photos - that's what most will say is their expected life.

Do you have a way to email me one of the photos? I could look at the meta data and see if anything jumps out.
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Thanks for the offer.
Just spoke to the 2 local camera places and they both said lens with me saying nothing more than the symptoms. Just talked Best Buy into giving me a lens for 100 less than list. Will see. If it is still screwed up I have another body and can send this one out to the hospital.

I am bringing in my laptop for some other stuff and will show the camera folks the images just to be sure.
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

New lens helped with the focus but everything was still bleached out then started to look like I was filtering colors. Realized it is probably my SD card which has had >50K of pics go on and off it. Found out it should last for only a few thousand. Well. I never knew that.
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

leswp1 said:
New lens helped with the focus but everything was still bleached out then started to look like I was filtering colors. Realized it is probably my SD card which has had >50K of pics go on and off it. Found out it should last for only a few thousand. Well. I never knew that.
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I don't know. I've never had an SD card go bad and have shot thousands and thousands of photos.

It's easy (and relatively inexpensive) to check though.

Offer stands on sending me a photo though if it's not the card... :)
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

Gurtholfin said:
I don't know. I've never had an SD card go bad and have shot thousands and thousands of photos.

It's easy (and relatively inexpensive) to check though.

Offer stands on sending me a photo though if it's not the card... :)
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Thanks
 
Re: Show Yourselves, Part 4: Sucking up bandwidth with poor pictures of weird tattoos

With Olympic marathoner Shalane Flanagan.

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