(as a bad workman does)<\/p>\n
I attempted to take some shots at the trampoline competition this weekend, and gave up pretty rapidly – there’s working to get the most from tough conditions, but there’s also lacking the right tools for the job. The light in the sports hall is atrocious (warmer than candle-light colour temperature, I’d guess 3500-4000K) and the nature of the sport precludes strobes or getting close to the beds. To freeze motion in a somersault you’d need a shutter of something like 1\/100 or 1\/150, but positioning implies at least 120mm of zoom – and then you want a big aperture due to the low overall lighting level. So big, fast, glass, which is expensive.<\/p>\n
I chatted to a friendly person from Durham who was also shooting, she possessed a stable-ized Canon 70-300mm on an EOS20, which I’d figured would be sufficient to get a decent image, but was still struggling with the light. I think the Sigma 50-150mm, which is a fixed f2.8 might<\/em> get a decent shot if I could crank the ISO high enough, but on my current body that means ISO800 at the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (as a bad workman does) I attempted to take some shots at the trampoline competition this weekend, and gave up pretty rapidly – there’s working to get the most from tough conditions, but there’s also lacking the right tools for the job. The light in the sports hall is atrocious (warmer than candle-light colour temperature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goneabitbursar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}