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Ross999
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Date Posted:
Jun/25/2010 12:49 AM
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Hi
Just wondering if someone can help out with some advice on how to get the correct exposure in this situation......
We are shooting 300 kids for a sport club. My wife take their portraits in shade. It's early morning...not a lot of light about.
She is using a 40D with a Canon 70-200 2.8 L series lens..stabalizer on. She is using a 580II Ex flash for fill..set to ETTL.
We need to use 5.6f to avoid blurry shots. We need a shutter speed of at least 125 to avoid blur (shooting hand-held). Under those setting, it was wanting me to shoot around 800 ISO. On a 40D and for a portrait I didnt want to go over 400. So I set it to 5.6,125,400 and adjusted the flash according to how it looked on the back of the camera. My wife took the shots while I took teams and action with a 1D. The 1D and the 40D have very different LCD's (tried but cant match them). I have jut spent 8 hours photoshopping 300 portraits as most were slightly overexposed.
I can't afford to do that every time as time is money.
Can anyone suggest a way I can get it right in camera?
Also, only about 1 in 10 of her shots was tack sharp in the eyes.
We have had this problem before so this time we thought we had it licked by doing the following.....
Firstly using 5.6 so we have more room for error, she puts the lens out of focus... then focuses on the eye using autofocus...switches to manual and takes the shot....we are relatively new to photography (2 years) but are frustrated that we cant seem to nail this basic thing. Looking about no one else seems to be having the same problem.
How do you get consistent sharp shots? We cant use tripod as we have to rush and with kids heights varying it is too restrictive...would a monopod help?
If anyone can offer any advice on either of those two problems itb be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ross
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E.
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Date Posted:
Jun/25/2010 3:34 PM
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Hand held at 125 shot be fine. Take a breath, push shutter, count to three, then breath and move the camera. Some people tend to start to drop the camera the exact moment their finger starts to twitch to press the shutter button. Thus the camera is in motion when the shutter is open.
Next don't use full auto mode. Use you apature priority and let the camera pick shutter speed. But be sure its fast enough.
If you feel it takes to long to adjust a tripod it will take just as long to set a mono pod. I'd think the kids would be about the same height so it should'nt take but a second to move a tripod up/done using the center post adjustment, not adjusting the legs.
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Ross999
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Date Posted:
Jun/25/2010 4:54 PM
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Hey mate
Thanks for taking the time to reply. We are shooting again today and i'll give your suggestions a go.
Cheers
Ross
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