Help on Indoor Eventing

Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 47

Hi all,

I have a job covering the show jumping in a couple of weeks time but it's indoors.

Has anyone got any hints for the lighting problem as it tends to be quite dark in these places and the obvious lack of a flash will make things tricky keeping the shutter sheed at the necessary level to avoid blur.

I'm using a Canon 20D with a sigma28-300mm lens. I can get the ISO up to 3200 but that brings obvious noise to the picture.

Any helpful pointers would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Paul.

Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 350 Location: Ontario, Canada

For a situations as you describe, a f/2.8 or faster lens is needed. IMHO, three fast primes and two bodies will give better results than a zoom and ISO 3200.

When using high ISO, use a product such as NeatImage or Noise Ninja to reduce the noise to a tolerable level but with the risk of lost detail.