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Old 14-12-2008, 11:22 AM
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g__day (Matthew)
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How does one correctly photograph at medium distance indoors without a flash?

Nothing to do with astrophotography here, last night I went to photograph my daughter in her gynamistics show last night using a Canon DSLR and 28-135mm macro lens. I have only really run this camera from my PC! I couldn't find settings that worked well.

The distance was about 30 metres from the action - some slow and some fast. They turned the lights quite low (annoyingly). When I set it to full auto it kept popping up the flash - which is useless for shots beyond 3 metres - so they were all very dark.

I was trying to work out a setting for low light, fast action and moderate distance. Maybe there isn't any setting for this combination that works. I ended up going manual using settings: cloudy colour temperature, 1/6 of a second shots at ISO 800.

Needless to say I got alot of blurs!

What should / could I have done to get a better result?

thanks,

Matthew
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