1600 ISO Gymnastics.....again....

[GBRandy]

I'm back at it after a couple of weeks off. This was from last weeks event. Our home meet. I handled all the scoring, did the awards and shot pictures.

Day started at 6:00 am and ended at 11 pm. I was surprised at how poorly some shots turned out as I rushed out to grab some shots and return to my scoring duties. You really need to have your head in the game to make these shots work....casual shots just don't work.

Anyway....all at 1600 ISO and with an 85mm f1.8 shot at f1.8. One sample from each event. Our floor lighting was awful!

BTW...banner day for my daughter...her first Level 7 trophy...and I got to hand it to her :tongue:

Comments...good or bad...& any questions are always welcome, it's how we all learn.

Floor:
http://www.ymcagymstars.com/2006_07_events/Green%20Bay%2002_24_07/RST2232.jpg

Beam (very heavily croppped) :
http://www.ymcagymstars.com/2006_07_events/Green%20Bay%2002_24_07/RST2587.jpg

Bars:
http://www.ymcagymstars.com/2006_07_events/Green%20Bay%2002_24_07/RST2474.jpg

Vault:
http://www.ymcagymstars.com/2006_07_events/Green%20Bay%2002_24_07/RST2056.jpg

[StickShots]

It looks like you did a great job, I know hard hard it is to shoot in this type of lighting conditions. My camera lives at 1600 iso and has occaisionally has to make the trip to 3200 iso (indoor lacrosse).

Congratulations to your daughter. :cheer:

[Bobby]

These look good to me Randy. As to exposure and noise they are quite good. I agree that running out to shoot in between other duties is not ideal. Congratulations to you daughter, lots of athleticism required for this sport.

[David Cramer]

Congrats to you and your daughter! I would imagine any fast action sport is difficult to capture on the spur of the moment, but this set looks good. You've captured some great facial expressions. Man, those are looong days!

[j_b_l]

Randy, sounds like a very long day...with very good results!!

[GBRandy]

Randy, sounds like a very long day...with very good results!!

Well, well, well....look what the cat dragged in. :wacko:

Thanks for the comments John....and glad you found us over here too.

[Keith]

All look great, so now that you have several weeks under the belt, how do you like shooting the canon gear based on your style of shooting and what you like to shoot? Interested inyour thoughts

[j_b_l]

Well, well, well....look what the cat dragged in. :wacko:

Thanks for the comments John....and glad you found us over here too.

LOL Randy...I bought a 135L lens from Kevin today and he mentioned this place...so I thought I would take a poke around...I see some familiar faces...

[GBRandy]

All look great, so now that you have several weeks under the belt, how do you like shooting the canon gear based on your style of shooting and what you like to shoot? Interested inyour thoughts

These are not my best work....it was a hectic day and the WB is off on the middle two here....but I am learning.

Things I like about the 1D MKIIN so far:

The High ISO performance is impressive

The 50 ISO color saturation is amazing

The RAW images are almost 1/2 the size of my D200 images and take PP work like sharpening and noise reduction much better.

The Af system tracks about 4 times more accurately than my d200 in low light.

USM on ALL of my lenses is nice.

Things I do not like so far:

The NUMBER 1 thing I dislike is the the custom WB selection. You need an actual image to select for the CWB to work. If you shoot that image, select the CWB on the camera and the SWITCH OUT the card....guess what? It lost it's reference for the WB and is still shooting in the CWB mode.....Nikon's was read into the camera memory...not the card.

The zoom in function on the LCD is not an accurate rendition of sharpness on your shot. What appears soft on the LCD is more often than not acceptable . Makes field decisions difficult.

Moving the selectable focus point around is a bit awkward under heavy fire.

My camera seems to shoot about 1/2 stop under-exposed....a shot on a gray card showed the spike to be well left on the histogram...not sure what to make of this just yet.

The flash just aint the same as the SB-800...and I doubt the 580EX II will make it to that level either.

Nikon's NX blows away the DPP software package from Canon IMHO....

Having said all that, would I go back? No way. Some things to get used to, to learn....and possibly correct, but that was all to be expected going in.