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Sports Photography Help - R6

Started Nov 6, 2020 | Discussions thread
George Zip Senior Member • Posts: 1,633
Re: Sports Photography Help - R6

Photographing indoor sports in venues that are not lit for professional sport is rough.

Terrible light ( with colour temps usually all over the place ) , usually too dim and super junky backgrounds. It’s worth shooting with a custom white balance if you have a grey card.  At least then you can sync any WB tweaks all at once in post.

when I have done it I try and find a clean back ground and use that. Also, I have shot for example boxing as low as 500 -1000 shutter speed. You will get a lot of useless images but you will get a lot where the persons head is in focus but the ball and arm will have motion blur. I actually quite like that look. 
I have found in bad light that it’s wort trying to keep the ISO down. High iso looks fine in good light and terrible in bad light.

Maybe experiment with your shutter speeds and see what is tolerable for you personally.

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