I watch your videos each week but I probably appreciated this one most as I do more of my shots under the floodlights. Glad to see your settings and results.
Thanks for this vlog Mark, good bit of improvisation for your mobile studio..I thought the shot of the goalkeeper diving near the beginning of the video and probably one of your first shots of the evening was really good..
I am at Meadow Lane next week for a night game so will try your white balance setting of 5000k. Incidentally looks like the time clocks on your cameras needs adjusting for GMT
When the ball is not in action I prefer to bump the shutter speed right down, when the light is an issue. Most modern mirrorless can do so many fps that spamming the shutter for a sec or two almost guarantees a sharp photo in the mix. I tend to go no less than the focal length (e.g. 400mm -> shutter >= 1/400"). Works for me. I do also shoot raw. Both excess photos and raw is because I do not need to send the photos away live. A luxury you do not have I guess : )
Having used to steps non league step 4 or pyramid step 8 to 10 using a Nikon D5 and only a 70-200mm lens for Bashley FC Southern League Division 1. I generally set my camera up for floodlights at, Shutter 1000, ISO 12800 -- to 25600 and Aperture f 2.8 with poor floodlights. I have to be more selective in what pictures I send off, under poorer floodlights, but I can get there in the end. I have gone up to iso 40000 to get pictures for media use, and used, but grainy and sharpened up. I would rather have a grainy picture than no picture at all to tell the story.
Indoors under lights as a spectator with my 70-200/2.8 I use electric with 2.8 and a set ISO and roughly 1/1600, then a different custom mode which is mechanical much slower shutter speed to get the slower story type shots (just to eek out the higher bit depth of my R7 and prolong the shutter life, I don’t really care about the rolling shutter in this scenario). Speculating on what will come after the R1 and R5ii, both of those problems will be solved as they now have the same bit depth regardless of the mode and electronic shutter looks to be the primary mode anyway
Mark, I see that you are using negative exposure compensation. What is your reasoning there? I have seen where most say to use positive exposure compensation of .03.
I noticed I kept it in the minus quite a lot for this game which was in error! I usually keep it on zero best I can but for some reason forgot about this and left it on the minus! Having it nearer to 0.0 would’ve kept my ISO down a bit for sure!
Lighting must've been very poor at that venue. I shot a rugby league game at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney this year with a 300 f/2.8 @ 1/1600th & ISO 1600 Apparently, they upgraded the lighting for the women's World Cup soccer in 2023.
my photos look terrible anytime I got above 3200 -6400 iso with lots of noise. I'm shooting with a sony a7rv. Is it just this camera? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I watch your videos each week but I probably appreciated this one most as I do more of my shots under the floodlights. Glad to see your settings and results.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Mark. I'm always taking something from your post's.
Thanks for this vlog Mark, good bit of improvisation for your mobile studio..I thought the shot of the goalkeeper diving near the beginning of the video and probably one of your first shots of the evening was really good..
Prefect timing Mark. I’m doing a floodlit rugby match at Cardiff Arms on Friday evening. Will take your advice on board 👍
Ah that’s great then. Good luck for Friday night at the rugby👍🏻
@ Diolch yn fawr from the Principality. 🏴
have used kelvin 5500 and happy with that
I am at Meadow Lane next week for a night game so will try your white balance setting of 5000k. Incidentally looks like the time clocks on your cameras needs adjusting for GMT
Thanks great video as it shows the importance of shutter speed and aperture being set correctly.
Thanks Clive, appreciate you watching the video and glad you took something from it👍🏻
When the ball is not in action I prefer to bump the shutter speed right down, when the light is an issue. Most modern mirrorless can do so many fps that spamming the shutter for a sec or two almost guarantees a sharp photo in the mix. I tend to go no less than the focal length (e.g. 400mm -> shutter >= 1/400"). Works for me. I do also shoot raw. Both excess photos and raw is because I do not need to send the photos away live. A luxury you do not have I guess : )
Having used to steps non league step 4 or pyramid step 8 to 10 using a Nikon D5 and only a 70-200mm lens for Bashley FC Southern League Division 1. I generally set my camera up for floodlights at, Shutter 1000, ISO 12800 -- to 25600 and Aperture f 2.8 with poor floodlights. I have to be more selective in what pictures I send off, under poorer floodlights, but I can get there in the end. I have gone up to iso 40000 to get pictures for media use, and used, but grainy and sharpened up. I would rather have a grainy picture than no picture at all to tell the story.
I may have missed it but are you using auto ISO?
Indoors under lights as a spectator with my 70-200/2.8 I use electric with 2.8 and a set ISO and roughly 1/1600, then a different custom mode which is mechanical much slower shutter speed to get the slower story type shots (just to eek out the higher bit depth of my R7 and prolong the shutter life, I don’t really care about the rolling shutter in this scenario). Speculating on what will come after the R1 and R5ii, both of those problems will be solved as they now have the same bit depth regardless of the mode and electronic shutter looks to be the primary mode anyway
Mark, I see that you are using negative exposure compensation. What is your reasoning there? I have seen where most say to use positive exposure compensation of .03.
I noticed I kept it in the minus quite a lot for this game which was in error! I usually keep it on zero best I can but for some reason forgot about this and left it on the minus! Having it nearer to 0.0 would’ve kept my ISO down a bit for sure!
I’m also interested to see why Mark used negative exp comp.
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Lighting must've been very poor at that venue. I shot a rugby league game at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney this year with a 300 f/2.8 @ 1/1600th & ISO 1600 Apparently, they upgraded the lighting for the women's World Cup soccer in 2023.
my photos look terrible anytime I got above 3200 -6400 iso with lots of noise. I'm shooting with a sony a7rv. Is it just this camera? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.