Taekwondo

GPapa said:

Initial impression:

1) They look a bit underexposed to me.

2) There is no exif information so I don't know what settings you are using. That makes it difficult to comment further. So I guess my advice would be to repost a couple of shots with the exif metadata included in the files.

Shooting sports is great fun, lots of challenges for you and a good way to participate in your son's activities. I have galleries of sports shots of my grand-kids ranging from T-ball to State High School Championships. They are not all great photos but they are priceless.

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GPapa said:

The meta data or exif information is placed in the image file by your camera when you take the photo. The software you use to process/resize your images may be stripping that data out.

Old versions of Photoshop used to do that.

What software are you using to process images?

Did you get software with your camera from Nikon?

A good free viewer/editor software application is FastStone Image Viewer. Basic image editing/resize tools and a great viewer. It will also let you easily view the exif information while viewing your images so you can evaluate what camera settings work and what does not work for a given situation.

The FastStone software will only strip the exif information out of the files if you tell it to.

You are facing a big learning curve but it is all rewarding if you have reasonable expectations. Eventually it will all come together.

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scorpion1971 said:

Did you upload the pics from your CPU or post them from Photobucket? I know when I post pcs from Photobucket the EXIF info does not show up. When I upload them from my CPU they are there.

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GPapa said:

I don't know what you did different but the exif information is present in this set of images.

shutter speed: 1/250

aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 6400

As I said before, they seem a bit under exposed. More specifically the faces are under exposed. The floor is well exposed. The majority of light in this gym is coming from the ceiling. Not so much reflected from the walls or floor.

Possibly add some exposure compensation in camera to bump the exposure up a bit while using the same mode you used for this set of images. The floor will be a bit overexposed but the faces will be more well exposed.

Another possibility . . .

Put the camera in manual exposure mode and use similar settings to what was used in the images you uploaded here. The images are clear of significant noise at ISO 6400 so I would keep that setting. You don't need an aperture of f/5.6, so if you can, I would open that up as far as possible, (f/3.5?). Take a few shots with shutter speed at 1/200, 1/250 and faster then check the images in the camera's LCD. See if you can get better exposure on the faces. When you find a shutter speed/aperture combination that exposes well for the faces stick with that.

One of the rules for high ISO sports shooting is to expose to the right. That is a reference to the histogram, where the right side of the curve is located up against the right side of the graph frame. That results in some clipping of fully lighted white areas in the image.

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