Rugby under floodlights any tips?

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Hi guys i'll be shooting my first match under floodlights tomorrow and just wondered if there are any things i need to look out for in my camera settings.

The match will start at 7 so I guess the floodlights will come on in the second half, so would you suggest manual exposure for this?

At the moment I have been shooting using aperture priority, but was thinking of using the Auto ISO feature on the 1D mark 3.

My plan was to set the aperture at 2.8 and the shutter speed at around 1/1000 and let the camera pick the best ISO, would this work?

Also what should i do regarding WB?

Any tips greatly appreciated:thumbs:
 
redmonkee said:
My plan was to set the aperture at 2.8 and the shutter speed at around 1/1000 and let the camera pick the best ISO, would this work?
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That's what I do for daytime shooting too. :thumbs:
Shoot RAW and worry about WB later.
 
Depending on how rubbish the lights are you don't need to be aiming for shutter of 1000. I tend to photograph football or rugby at a min 640 shutter as that freezes the action more than enough. If the lights are so bad then selecting 1000 shutter with auto iso will probably give you high iso speeds in order to get that shutter resulting in slight grain in photos from noisey iso.

I would select 640 shutter speed and just leave it on auto iso at f2.8 aperture.
 
Keep checking your exposure in whatever way you like! You'll be amazed how easy it is to completely blow the players (no innuendo please :lol:) if there's a dark background.

I went for f/2.8, ISO 3200, and had a look at what shutter speeds I could get away with. If the SS is high enough, lower the ISO a little, or stop down.

That worked for me, but it might be different for you!

Chris
 
awp said:
That's what I do for daytime shooting too. :thumbs:
Shoot RAW and worry about WB later.
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This is an option...if you want to shoot in JPEG (and I'M NOT GETTING INTO AN ARGUMENT OVER RAW v JPEG)...then I take along a piece of white paper/card and do a custom WB when the floodlights are on.

Up to you, it can be difficult if the light is changing as I expect it will be! Sometimes AWB gets it right.

If you're PPing the way you did with your last RL shots then you should be OK as it would generally sort any major problems.
 
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