action shots advice

[Romany 1,065]

Mine goes up to 6.400, with three extra higher settings above this, but I would never use that sort of iso, the images would be too grainy, I stick to a max of 1600 on mine in poor light, and down to 200 in good, with a good allround iso setting of 640, but, all cameras are different...Some cameras have an auto iso control, mine works great, I set the minimum to 200 and the maximum to 1600 and the camera makes a bloody good job of the rest..your camera should be ok with a maximum 400 and maybe up to 800 iso, above this you may need some noise reduction done on the images in photoshop or the the like..take the same picture at various iso settings on you camera and view them to see the difference, view them at 100% blown up..

[paulus 26]

Mine goes up to 6.400, with three extra higher settings above this, but I would never use that sort of iso, the images would be too grainy, I stick to a max of 1600 on mine in poor light, and down to 200 in good, with a good allround iso setting of 640, but, all cameras are different...Some cameras have an auto iso control, mine works great, I set the minimum to 200 and the maximum to 1600 and the camera makes a bloody good job of the rest..your camera should be ok with a maximum 400 and maybe up to 800 iso, above this you may need some noise reduction done on the images in photoshop or the the like..take the same picture at various iso settings on you camera and view them to see the difference, view them at 100% blown up..

thanks if it stops raining/snowing i will get out and give it a try ive also adjusted the focus points down to 1 centeral one as someone else said.

[Romany 1,065]

This picture was shot at 1600 iso, the bird was in a darkish wooded area, shot at 200 iso and the image would have been almost black..There has been no noise reduction done to the image..there is slight noise in the background but this is exceptible, it helps define the bird, and detail can still be seen on the bird, but if I want to I could get rid of this in photoshop, you have to get to know your camera, its settings and what they do, do test shots, lots of them..I think we are putting too much emphasis on high iso`s, digressed from what started out as increasing iso to increase shutter speed, wildlife photography is dependent on detail and sharpness, probably more so than any other type of photography, mega hight iso`s will not preserve the detail we need, if I could have shot this image at 400 iso the result would have been better for web use and for printing..I use high iso`s with the thought of "any picture is better than none", rather than, "this is going to be a competition winner"

Why not do a photography course, Ive done three over the years, and join a local camera club, these too can be helpful, I travel at times with a semi pro, good thing, he is also a Nikom man too, so has helped with settings etc..

 

Edited March 4, 2012 by Romany

[paulus 26]

This picture was shot at 1600 iso, the bird was in a darkish wooded area, shot at 200 iso and the image would have been almost black..There has been no noise reduction done to the image..there is slight noise in the background but this is exceptible, it helps define the bird, but if I want to I could get rid of this in photoshop, you have to get to know your camera, its settings and what they do, do test shots, lots of them

 

i think im getting the idea now i need to play with the camera :laugh:

[Romany 1,065]

Yip, thats right, you cant break it, unless you undi

[paulus 26]

Yip, thats right, you cant break it, unless you undi

i will test that theory my next post will be `how do reset my camera` :laugh:

[RossM 8,149]

Romany I'll send you my crappy camera, see if you can work your magic on that?!

[dytkos 17,982]

after the failure of the skylark shot yesterday i thought i would pop out this afternoon and get some practice, i seem to be able to get large objects like the dogs ok but not smaller distance ones look? any advice ladies and gents.

 

Make sure you get the subject in the frame

 

Cheers, D.

[Romany 1,065]

Paulus, your cameras main rival is probably the Canon 500d, and there are a number of guys on here that use this with good results, here is a youtube vid of what your camera can do, and there are many others to help;

[paulus 26]

after the failure of the skylark shot yesterday i thought i would pop out this afternoon and get some practice, i seem to be able to get large objects like the dogs ok but not smaller distance ones look? any advice ladies and gents.

 

Make sure you get the subject in the frame

 

Cheers, D.

looks alot like my work

[paulus 26]

stuff like this i can do

[paulus 26]

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[paulus 26]

its this what im struggling with this is a skylark

[Romany 1,065]

Romany I'll send you my crappy camera, see if you can work your magic on that?!

 

Not such a thing as a crappy camera these days matie and I cant use Canon gear anyway :laugh:

[Romany 1,065]

after the failure of the skylark shot yesterday i thought i would pop out this afternoon and get some practice, i seem to be able to get large objects like the dogs ok but not smaller distance ones look? any advice ladies and gents.

 

Make sure you get the subject in the frame

 

Cheers, D.

looks alot like my work

 

Thats what I thought, I thought it was your vid