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advice on flash for sports
I'm just a hobbyist looking to shoot some indoor sports stuff;
wrestling, basketball, gymnastics, etc. I just took some pictures at a wrestling match. I set my camera's ISO to 1600; it's a Canon 10D. The light was still to low for decent shutter speeds so I used the camera's built in flash. The lens I'm using is the Canon 28-135 zoom. It was usually zoomed all the way out. Pretty much every picture has terrible red eye. At least any where the eyes are visible at all, even ones where their head is facing sideways. I'm wondering if I were to get a flash that goes into the hot shoe would that help with the red eye? I'm not sure how the distance to the subject affects things; it seems to me that the farther away they are the more separation I need between the flash and lens; is this true? Any advice you can offer would be great; thanks. |
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advice on flash for sports
"Rusty Wright" wrote in message ... I'm just a hobbyist looking to shoot some indoor sports stuff; wrestling, basketball, gymnastics, etc. I just took some pictures at a wrestling match. I set my camera's ISO to 1600; it's a Canon 10D. The light was still to low for decent shutter speeds so I used the camera's built in flash. The lens I'm using is the Canon 28-135 zoom. It was usually zoomed all the way out. Pretty much every picture has terrible red eye. At least any where the eyes are visible at all, even ones where their head is facing sideways. I'm wondering if I were to get a flash that goes into the hot shoe would that help with the red eye? I'm not sure how the distance to the subject affects things; it seems to me that the farther away they are the more separation I need between the flash and lens; is this true? Any advice you can offer would be great; thanks. Not necessarily. Red eye is caused by your flash illuminating the back of your subject's eyeball. If your flash is close to your lens than the area of the eyeball lit by your flash is visible in the view of your lens. You may have noticed that photographers who rely on flash pictures, like paparazzi, have their flashes mounted on brackets to move them away from the lens axis. |
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advice on flash for sports
Kibo informs me that Rusty Wright stated
that: I'm wondering if I were to get a flash that goes into the hot shoe would that help with the red eye? The short answer is: yes, it will help a lot. I'm not sure how the distance to the subject affects things; it seems to me that the farther away they are the more separation I need between the flash and lens; is this true? Yes, that's correct. Even with an external flash, if you're a long way from the subject, you'll find red-eye reappearing. (I found this out the hard way recently, when using fill-flash at 100mm+ focal lengths.) This is why people buy (or make) flash brackets that position the flash further away from the camera. Any advice you can offer would be great; thanks. Hope this helps, etc. -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- |
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advice on flash for sports
My advise is to buy yourself good prime lens. You will not need flash and
will be able to get good pictures Gord "Rusty Wright" wrote in message ... I'm just a hobbyist looking to shoot some indoor sports stuff; wrestling, basketball, gymnastics, etc. I just took some pictures at a wrestling match. I set my camera's ISO to 1600; it's a Canon 10D. The light was still to low for decent shutter speeds so I used the camera's built in flash. The lens I'm using is the Canon 28-135 zoom. It was usually zoomed all the way out. Pretty much every picture has terrible red eye. At least any where the eyes are visible at all, even ones where their head is facing sideways. I'm wondering if I were to get a flash that goes into the hot shoe would that help with the red eye? I'm not sure how the distance to the subject affects things; it seems to me that the farther away they are the more separation I need between the flash and lens; is this true? Any advice you can offer would be great; thanks. |
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