When you are exposing towards the right for the most part at lower ISO and outdoor.maybe in a sunny day, you will see blur at 1/250s shooting fast pace action.regardless if the flash is fired or not. Please set me straight on this because I am also very interested in this.įlash would freeze any action only if the movement is slow enough AND you are underexposing the ambient light by a lot, says, 3 stops or more. Isn't that how it works? I am just thinking in terms of three pillars of photography. I guess what I am saying is that in theory if the facility was totally dark and I was shooting in bulb mode I would get no exposure per se, but if in that same situation I used a strobe, then the light duration becomes the shutter speed. Having never used studio strobes for sports I don't know, but I have used speedlites for sports. The flash duration would take the place of the shutter and flash output power would effect the area lighted. Shouldn't I be able to essentially shoot at a slow shutter speed and let the flash duration do the action stopping? If that is true then I should be able lower my ISO to control the ambient. However, would not flash duration be the deciding issue? If that is correct then shutter is less relevant. Maybe I am miss understanding strobes so forgive me if my remarks are wrong.
I believe PW hypersync must be pre-programmed before use again, Yongnuo supersync would allow you to manually change the timing in the field. For indoor venues, you don't need strobes. Correct, supersync (that's what I am using) must work consistently and must be able to keep up with your burst speed. In these day and age, I think for your sports photography to stand out the most is having the ability to use hypersync or supersync.as long as the events and venues permit you to use flash.
We only used lights back then because we had to - we didn't have the ability to shoot high ISOs and get professional grade results. If I were still shooting sports these days, I'd probably go with the available light and fast fps. But, also, there's the advantage of shooting 10fps if you shoot without dependency on the lights. But the high ISO's these days make it possible to shoot without the lights so it's going to be up to you what look you want. I do think that lighted basketball is very attractive. We had to go out on the court with flash meters to get exposure readings because we were shooting slide film and no-review digital capture.Īnyway, just reinforcing your thinking.
It helps to get your baseline for any given gym. If you were to raise your iso and bring in more ambient, you could up to a point. The "look" is that the lighted image is what stands out and the background, while it isn't black, it very much underexposed. It works and it works well but it's not 10fps. Now, for the college level play, we had ceiling rafter mounted lights, which were awesome placement.īut, still, yeah, we were shooting at regular sync and lower iso because we didn't have these higher iso available. I think I was using Lumedyne kits back then as they were lightweight and simple to clamp onto whatever in the upper level. The old school method does work, obviously, because that's what we used to do. This is what we did in the old days with slide film and early digital. Your thinking is correct about the camera sync speed and the flash freezing the action.
The Einsteins wouldn't be a first choice for hyper sync because they are IGBT and, like you said, even to get basic hyper sync, they have to be used at full power if it would even work. With no flash my ambient is 8000, 2.8, 640 shutter. Or is the old school and set the ambient 2 stops under and let the Strobe be the main light? So the settings would be 250 Shutter, Aperture 2.8, Iso whatever the difference( I will guess around 4000) and the flash would be what freezes the action?ĭoes this sound correct? What am I missing? So if go back to the camera sync speed of 250 and lower the Output of the Einstein to 1/16-1/64, I can achieve a FPS of around 10. Doesn't lend to higher FPS since you need 1.7 seconds for recovery. Going through the utility, you can Hyper sync, but the 640 needs to be on FULL power. The school just bought 2 Einstein 640's and PW MC2. I know there are threads on here that explain this better. Basically the shutter is freezing the action and the speed lights are providing a little Pop and helping w WB. You can use Hyper sync ( shutter over 250) pretty easily. I have been using my speed lights with the PW TT5 and TT1 to try and light basketball. Using Einstein Strobe and Hyper sync for Basketball ?Ī complex question.