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How to take indoor low light pictures and freeze motion with Nikon D60?

Dec 09, 2008 by screwucarissa | Posted in Photography

I have a Nikon D60 and a crony of mine wants me to take photos of her daughter who is a cheerleader. I want to get some photos of her doing jumps and I don't want them to be blurry. What quake speed should I use and I can't seem to get my flash to work when I have my camera set at a fast shudder speed. It's like all dark and you can't see anything in the photo. I don't be familiar with what i'm doing wrong. I've looked over my manual and can't seem to find a solution. Also, it's really cold outside so it's not like I can zap outside. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Look on summon forth 179 of your owner's manual for a helpful chart.

I will assume that you are using the kit lens.

In order to have enough working footage to get your cheerleader's entire body in the frame, you will have to go towards the wide ened of your lens. You will also have to work "wide free," so set your camera on "A" for aperture priority. Crank it open to f/3.5 and let the camera set the shutter speed. Looking at the plot (accept f/4.0 as "pretty close"), you will see that your flash range is going to be limited to (about) 10 ft, 14 ft, or 20 ft, for ISO settings of 100, 200 or 400. Have a place out how far away your subject needs to be in order to fit in the frame and choose the lowest ISO that you can. You may be concerned about the speed being minimal to 1/200, but the actual burst of the flash is of much shorter duration than that, so the flash itself and not the shutter speed will ostracize the motion.

Will these be flattering pictures? Probably not. You will be forced to use a wider angle focal length from a relatively complete range, so there will be some distortion. You are using a single, relatively low power flash without diffusion or bounce capabilities, so there will be rather cruel shadows, unless you can throw a lot of light on the wall behind your subject. Try doing this with a couple of table lamps without the shades on them, set low and off to either side of the source.

When it warms up, go outside in diffused light as you would have on a slightly overcast day or under some trees. Use the continuous shooting mode and a shutter boost of 1/500 or 1/1000. Say, "Jump!" and press the shutter button in as soon as you tell her to jump. You'll get 5 or 6 frames per take a crack at at this and one will be just what you want. You can't use flash when you are using continuous mode, so you can't do this indoors.

What is a good inexpensive D40 lens for indoor shooting.?

Nov 30, 2008 by timyarb | Posted in Cameras

I take pictures of my daughters PeeWee football teams and cheerleaders. Does anyone distinguish of a decent lens that will give me good shots indoors. I normally shoot at 1/250 or faster to lay off the motion and the indoor lighting is typical of a School gym.

the 50mm f/1.8 is one of the superior lenses you can buy, it has a fixed focal length, no zoom, but it's great for low light, indoors and the sharpness is excellent.

What is the best canon low light lens to use for indoor music photography?

Jan 15, 2009 by Laura132 | Posted in Cameras

I currently have a canon eos 450d and pattern kit lens.
I'm finding that this is increasingly insufficient; my photos are coming out with large amount of motion blur and are a little too dark even on the most extreme settings :(

i'd appreciate it loads if someone could recommend a good low light lense for a sane price (i've not exactly got the biggest of buggets to work with) and perhaps even outline why this is the best lense

thankyou! x

Most qualified budget lens for low light imo, is the 85mm f/1.8. Its very solid, has fast AF, and takes really sharp pictures even at f/1.8. The ultimately is pretty decent for concerts, but you wont get anything longer for any less than $600 more. You can always go wit the 50 f/1.8, but really that centred length is not long enough. My favorite lens is the 70-200 f/2.8 but obviously that runs for either $1100 or $1700, where as the 85mm f/1.8 goes for scarcely over $400.