ann clancy
(K=2014) - Comment Date 9/10/2006
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if this gym is like most gyms, it is not well lite for photos.
If this was a professional game, then the lighting conditions are usually much better.
raise your ISO as high as it will go, 800 to 1600. shutter speeds at 250 no lower than 125 and that should help.
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RICHARD BOUCHER
(K=0) - Comment Date 10/29/2006
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ANN you seem well with slr camera. i just bought a used elan 7e by cannon. great shape. in 6 months i will be taking class on using cameras. but in the mean time my question is when i take photos, the foucus is great on people but blurrs on backgrounds. is that a setting or something? i use program or tv when shooting and set the speed to about 2000 and not sure about appeture. can you help?
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 10/29/2006
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long lenses need very small aperture opening to have both foreground and background in focus.
Especially when shooting indoors you're almost certain not to have enough light to be able to do that, so you have to make a choice.
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ann clancy
(K=2014) - Comment Date 10/29/2006
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depth of field controls the background or foreground being out of focus.
also, long focal lenses have shorter depths of field. and as jeronen has suggested, you need to decide what is more important. depth of field or freezing action. you can have one but not both, especially in low light conditions.
at a shutter speed of 2000 indoors, the fstop is going to be a very small number which indicates a larger opening which means the depth of field is very narrow. this is giving you the out of focus backgrounds. In fact i am surprised that with a shutter speed of 2000 indoors that the image is not seriously underexposed, even at 1600 iso.
most people who shoot a lot of sports us an fstop of 2.8 to create that very effect. This way the crowd or the background does not distract from the main subject.
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