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**amusaasyday** · 07-21-2006, 03:25 PM

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I'm looking for some opinions and tips regarding photographing kendo. I tried doing some photography for our club at the Austin Taikai in 2004, but wasn't too happy with the outcome. I have a rather old Olympus C2500L DSLR, and I was using a tripod, but couldn't get rid of motion blur. Does anyone have any ideas regarding the appropriate shutter speed, especially for indoor lighting (the tournament was at their Rec Center, and I think it was an indoor basketball court).

And does anyone know how one might compensate for fluorescent lighting?

I use an Olympus E-300 DSLR myself and I'm a wannabe amateur photographer, so the following advice is bsed on my own limited experience:

A fast lens (max. aperture of f3.5 or bigger at full zoom) is recommended. For most of my shots, I use a 50-200mm lens, f2.8-f3.5 max. aperture. Depending on the light level and your tolerance for noise at the higher ISO settings of your camera, my shutter speed will range between 1/30 to 1/60. I may be able to push it to 1/80 or even 1/100 in rare cases. Try adjusting your ISO to 400. Depending on your camera, the pictures may come out a bit grainy. If your pictures still come out a bit dark, you can do some post-processing with Photoshop or some other software. I like using Picasa (download from Google) myself for simple post-processing.

Check out my Flickr site for some samples:

http://flickr.com/photos/ocbpictures...7594163255729/

There's EXIF data for each picture, so you'll be able to see what settings I used on my camera to take the shot.

I hope this helps and good shooting!

07-21-2006, 03:25 PM	#5
amusaasyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 566 Senior Member	All I'm looking for some opinions and tips regarding photographing kendo. I tried doing some photography for our club at the Austin Taikai in 2004, but wasn't too happy with the outcome. I have a rather old Olympus C2500L DSLR, and I was using a tripod, but couldn't get rid of motion blur. Does anyone have any ideas regarding the appropriate shutter speed, especially for indoor lighting (the tournament was at their Rec Center, and I think it was an indoor basketball court). And does anyone know how one might compensate for fluorescent lighting? I use an Olympus E-300 DSLR myself and I'm a wannabe amateur photographer, so the following advice is bsed on my own limited experience: A fast lens (max. aperture of f3.5 or bigger at full zoom) is recommended. For most of my shots, I use a 50-200mm lens, f2.8-f3.5 max. aperture. Depending on the light level and your tolerance for noise at the higher ISO settings of your camera, my shutter speed will range between 1/30 to 1/60. I may be able to push it to 1/80 or even 1/100 in rare cases. Try adjusting your ISO to 400. Depending on your camera, the pictures may come out a bit grainy. If your pictures still come out a bit dark, you can do some post-processing with Photoshop or some other software. I like using Picasa (download from Google) myself for simple post-processing. Check out my Flickr site for some samples: http://flickr.com/photos/ocbpictures...7594163255729/ There's EXIF data for each picture, so you'll be able to see what settings I used on my camera to take the shot. I hope this helps and good shooting!
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