Best setting for Basketball Game Photos

[Destin]

And I just stated that I was using a 50mm 1.8, at 1.8. Read through something before you respond to it.

I use my 70-200 2.8 sometimes too, but I'm already using flash with the 50mm, so thats irrelevant

I apologize, but even now when I go back through the thread I see where you say:

Even using a dslr with a fast zoom lens I have to use 2 off camera flash units to get good photos of high school basketball.

which tells me you use a zoom, but I do not see where you mention a 50mm at all. In another post you say:

To shoot without flash in the gym's around here, I would be at f1.8, and iso 3200 to even pull 1/320th of a second.

But since you never specify a lens I assumed this was just a calculation.

Again, I apologize if I upset you but I did read the posts and was just trying to help.

Allan

You didn't upset me, I was just stating the fact. I do shoot with fast zooms, but it's because I can't get good enough exposure with my 50 1.8, so I need flash either way.

 

[flea77]

Destin,

How is this?

Took your ISO 3200 image and ran it through a little processing, not too bad eh? Don't know how well it would do on your basketball images though.

Allan

 

[Robin Usagani]

it looks zoomed in. Is that zoomed in with your lens or you cropped it?

 

[Destin]

it looks zoomed in. Is that zoomed in with your lens or you cropped it?

It was shot with a 50 1.8, so no zooming. But I didn't take time to set up my tripod, so I moved a bit after changing the iso I guess.

 

[Destin]

Destin,

Took your ISO 3200 image and ran it through a little processing, not too bad eh? Don't know how well it would do on your basketball images though.

Allan

That looks awesome. I don't know how that would look on my basketball photos either but I'd love to find out. Mind letting me in on exactly how you did that?

 

[ann]

You need to download some free trials of noise reduction programs. NeatImage, Dnoise, Dfine, or others .

Just open the photo in that program and they will have a variety of slides, etc. You just start tweaking them until you like what you see. Everyone has their favorite so just take the leap and be playful and see what happens.

 

[flea77]

Destin,

While I have not tried them all, I have tried quite a few. I use Topaz Denoise5. It is not the fastest, but it does the best job with the least amount of "tweaking" of any of the programs I tried. Give it a shot and see what it can do for you.

Allan

 

[Destin]

Destin,

While I have not tried them all, I have tried quite a few. I use Topaz Denoise5. It is not the fastest, but it does the best job with the least amount of "tweaking" of any of the programs I tried. Give it a shot and see what it can do for you.

Allan

Thanks man I'll check it out! Does it have the ability to o batch editing? Just curious?

 

[ann]

Topaz products are one of my favorites including dnoise, never noticed if they allow batch processing.