hi guys welcome and welcome back thanks so much for joining me today we're
going to cover action photography indoors inside not out in the open
whilst we're here to do a commercial shoot at the ogilvie dogs training centre
okay so for action photography indoors you want to go and revisit the previous action resources so
there is the original settings video which i will link above now and then after you've done
that go ahead and watch the other action video which we shot about a year later
very useful i'll link that above now and then what we're going to do today basically is just focus on
specific things that you might need to put in place when you're photographing action photography
indoors inside a venue if you're new here then hi i'm jess i'm a portrait photographer
and apparently i also do commercial work that's what we're doing today if you want to keep up
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than that if i feel like it so when it comes to the settings of what we're working with today
i'm just going to be using my sony a7r iii but really any any camera body any system is going
to be able to do this what you need to bear in mind though is that your iso is going to be
relatively high now i personally if i'm shooting indoors usually it's because i'm at an event
or there is some form of fast action happening and therefore i don't want to risk having a crappy
exposure therefore i do usually set my iso to auto in this situation and i will be shooting with auto
iso here today now just because you've got your iso on auto doesn't mean that that's going to
fix everything you also still need to have all of your other action photography settings in place
so on my screen right now you can see the floor good floor and you could also see the settings
so i've got my iso on auto i'm going to pop my exposure compensation back to zero i'm going to
be shooting on a 70 to 200 2.8 gm lens or the sony 135 1.8 gm because it is super fast it's faster
than this is for action so i'm shooting at 2.8 now i'll probably shoot a 2.8 even on the 135 and then
my shutter speed needs to be up at a safe speed for dog sports which is what we're photographing
today so i know i need to be probably 1 1000th of a second or 1250 or above so i'm going to go to
1 1250th of a second just in this instance then remembering all of our other action photography
settings i'm going to also go ahead and switch my drive mode to high probably high plus in this
instance i've got my iaf set to animal on subject detection but i'm also using single point flexible
spots small so i'm on the smallest one there and i'll probably retain on that if you're using
a canon mirrorless then definitely go ahead and use the wide on animal iaf or if you're finding
that it's struggling to pick up certain subjects such as black dogs or super dark objects and it's
just really not doing a very good job switch to a single point the smallest single point you can
get and really have control over where that focus is going so when you're on that you want to make
sure that you're on auto focus continuous or ai servo if you're on a cannon and when you've
got all of those things in place realistically you're ready to shoot so for us in this situation
really all i would need to do now is have a dog and then shoot because that's kind of all there
is to it so throughout the day we're going to be shooting action all sorts of different things
happening in here i'm going to be shooting on these settings nothing's going to change
it's very straightforward stuff and yeah i mean that's really it for action photography indoors
you just need to make sure you've got your shutter speed as high as it possibly can be
and you're going to have to rely on your iso to lift up everything else