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Fast lenses for night action shots

Started Aug 31, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: Fast lenses for night action shots

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Well, you've got yourself some crap light there, that's for sure.

Oh good, at least I know it's not just because of my poor photography skills

First, if it were me, I wouldn't even think about shooting jpegs, Raws will get you cleaner results and way more control over the mixed lighting color and dynamic range.

Thank you! Do you have any articles or topics I should look into to learn how exactly shooting in RAW will allow me to get better results in difficult light situations? 
Because at the moment I wouldn't know what to do with a RAW file in terms of lights and colors.

If you can get by with a wider angle lens, the 16 f/1.4 and especially the new 18 f/1.4 will get you significantly sharper results across the frame and a decent amount of DOF relative to most other lenses while minimizing motion blur when shot wide open. Otherwise, in these shots, it wouldn't be a bad thing if the everything but the subjects were out of focus so the Fuji 50 f/2 or Viltrox 56 f/1.4 (or 85 f/1.8)

I agree, definitely wouldn't be a bad thing.
Somebody on this thread thinks that 56mm 1.4 is still too much to get 2 people - close to each other (or even just one) - in focus.
I guess this is the main issue here, and something that probably I'll be able to sort out only by actually trying it.

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