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**29clepayJainync** · 01-30-2009, 02:10 PM

Not a bad start. I especially like this one.

It looks like you're underexposed by a stop or two. I suspect that when you meter, your camera is using the white walls. Metering works by assuming the average value for a scene is 18% gray. When the majority of your frame is the white wall (say 5% gray), then the auto-metering darkens it to 18% gray, making your whole scene darker, including the already dark indigo kenshi.

As mentioned earlier. Using the palm of your hand to meter is a good suggestion. It would probably return something like F2.0, 1/250 in that dojo. If your lens limit is F3.5 as noted below, that equates to a shutterspeed somewhere around 1/60. Set exposure to manual, lock it there and shoot some more, checking once in a while if lighting changes.

So now that you know gear and venue limits, shoot appropriately. If 1/60 is your top speed, there are plenty of great things to shoot for rather than spending the day (getting frustrated) trying to get a crisp, well-exposed ippon shot.

-Michael

Thanks for all the information, though my apologies, I'm probably going to have to learn a bit more to understand quite a bit of it.

I've taken some "test pics" and put them at

http://flickr.com/photos/scout3801/s...7613092879643/

Took them at ISO 1600, f3.5, 1/250 exposure time. Originals were raw, ran them through photoshop and saved them as jpgs. Anything with "auto" in the name has been modified to some extent in photoshop.

If anyone has the time to take a look, and help me tie in the advice I'm getting here to how I should be taking the pictures, I'd appreciate it.

-Charles

01-30-2009, 02:10 PM	#7
29clepayJainync Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	Not a bad start. I especially like this one. It looks like you're underexposed by a stop or two. I suspect that when you meter, your camera is using the white walls. Metering works by assuming the average value for a scene is 18% gray. When the majority of your frame is the white wall (say 5% gray), then the auto-metering darkens it to 18% gray, making your whole scene darker, including the already dark indigo kenshi. As mentioned earlier. Using the palm of your hand to meter is a good suggestion. It would probably return something like F2.0, 1/250 in that dojo. If your lens limit is F3.5 as noted below, that equates to a shutterspeed somewhere around 1/60. Set exposure to manual, lock it there and shoot some more, checking once in a while if lighting changes. So now that you know gear and venue limits, shoot appropriately. If 1/60 is your top speed, there are plenty of great things to shoot for rather than spending the day (getting frustrated) trying to get a crisp, well-exposed ippon shot. -Michael Thanks for all the information, though my apologies, I'm probably going to have to learn a bit more to understand quite a bit of it. I've taken some "test pics" and put them at http://flickr.com/photos/scout3801/s...7613092879643/ Took them at ISO 1600, f3.5, 1/250 exposure time. Originals were raw, ran them through photoshop and saved them as jpgs. Anything with "auto" in the name has been modified to some extent in photoshop. If anyone has the time to take a look, and help me tie in the advice I'm getting here to how I should be taking the pictures, I'd appreciate it. -Charles
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