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2nd image in volleyball Your shutter is too slow and maybe aperture too shallow (large)
and you are at f/2.0
When I do sports (it varies) but for young kids under 10 I'm at 1/250 IF I want some foot/leg/ball blur.
If under 14 I'm at 1/320 or 1/400 for some slight blur
If I don't want blur I start at 1/640 and move up.
I know you were indoors thus the reason probably for the large aperture of f/2 and slow shutter speed to get enough light to balance the light meter.
But this is what happens sometimes. I had this situation where it was waaaayyyy too dark. But I figured I might as well try. I knew my shutter was too slow and aperture too shallow but it was the only way I knew to get enough detail to pull it out in Lightroom later .. at least for a few somewhat fuzzy pictures.
You should have tried to increase your ISO more to increase your shutter to freeze motion more. But you did that to 800 to compensate, but it wasn't enough for your camera. You can go more and introduce noise, or in LightRoom use the Shadow slider more judiciously which will also induce noise.
Sometimes you can't win unless you add light.
I had it looking like this outdoors - 1/250 @ f/4 ISO 6400 and it looked like this if you were watching.
LowLight examples-01 by Steve Sklar, on Flickr
but have to pull out Shadows to the max just to have it look like this. Blurry, shallow DOF too but at least they got some fun pictures.
LowLight examples-02 by Steve Sklar, on Flickr
and you are at f/2.0
When I do sports (it varies) but for young kids under 10 I'm at 1/250 IF I want some foot/leg/ball blur.
If under 14 I'm at 1/320 or 1/400 for some slight blur
If I don't want blur I start at 1/640 and move up.
I know you were indoors thus the reason probably for the large aperture of f/2 and slow shutter speed to get enough light to balance the light meter.
But this is what happens sometimes. I had this situation where it was waaaayyyy too dark. But I figured I might as well try. I knew my shutter was too slow and aperture too shallow but it was the only way I knew to get enough detail to pull it out in Lightroom later .. at least for a few somewhat fuzzy pictures.
You should have tried to increase your ISO more to increase your shutter to freeze motion more. But you did that to 800 to compensate, but it wasn't enough for your camera. You can go more and introduce noise, or in LightRoom use the Shadow slider more judiciously which will also induce noise.
Sometimes you can't win unless you add light.
I had it looking like this outdoors - 1/250 @ f/4 ISO 6400 and it looked like this if you were watching.

but have to pull out Shadows to the max just to have it look like this. Blurry, shallow DOF too but at least they got some fun pictures.

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