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| Nikon D7000, 200mm (28-200), 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 640, adjusted |
Last Saturday I took some shots at the college’s annual Ethnic Festival. I try to time the Saturday photography seminar I teach once a semester to coincide with an event like this with some good photo opportunities. This year we missed the dance groups, so photogenic moments were fewer and farther between.
The one thing I forgot from last year was that the light in the field house is deceptively bad. It looks okay to the eye, but it’s dim enough to make a camera struggle. The shot at the top of this post was far too dark straight out of the camera:
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| Nikon D7000, 200mm (28-200), 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 640 | |
And that was at a relatively slow, 60 shutter. Fortunately, fixing that particular picture was an easy level adjustment in Photoshop.
When I slowed it down further, however, the lighting got better but other problems cropped up. A 30 shutter is about as slow as I can go and not pick up camera vibration. And even then, I have to concentrate on holding the camera still. If I pay attention to my grip, I end up only with motion from the subject (though at this slow speed even that will show up in the picture):
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| Nikon D7000, 200mm (28-200), 1/30, f/5.6, ISO 1000 |
But if I’m not careful, the camera moves and the whole picture gets messed up:
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| Nikon D7000, 200mm (28-200), 1/30, f/5.6, ISO 1000 |
In retrospect, I should have cranked the ISO up a bit more and found ways to adjust for the resulting graininess.
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