This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karl--
Wednesday, May 9, 2007, you wrote: > Taking pictures inside an arena is a real hassle. You are usually > too far away for the flash to be any good, and that results in a > really dark picture - does anyone have any ideas or tips for doing > this well? The built-in flashes on cameras are a joke once your subject is much more than ten feet away; not much good in a arena. Boosting the ISO is one solution, but it comes with the drawback of additional noise (grain) with both digital and film. When I reviewed the pictures I shot at Winona, I was pleased with the exposure but disappointed with the blurring from the relatively low shutter speed even with a higher ISO. So I searched ebay until I found a good price on a Sunpak 544, a separate hammer-head flash unit that will pump sufficient light out up to 100 feet and more. Although I haven't yet had a chance to try it in a situation like a large indoor arena, I know that I used a similar flash to shoot basketball games, when I was in the Army, with great success. -- Steve McIlree - Pferd, Skipper & Clust - Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA It's never the horse, it's always the rider. --Old Cavalry Adage The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
