Digital photography - indor photography - best settings?

Question

What are the best settings to photograph athletes in an indoor environment (digital camera)- for example gymnasts.

Answer 1

You can see some ideas on this very difficult problem here,
http://www.sportsflashtech.com/
If your camera can advance the ISO setting to 800 or higher, then you have a chance of good photos. This will probably take a SLR (changeable lens, through the lens viewfinder) type of camera, such as the Canon Rebel.
The smaller camers simply do not have the light sensitivity to operate at a fast enough shutter (to freeze the action!) and get enough light to make a decent image.
For gymnasts, I think you want at least 1/250 sec shutter, or
better 1/500. If the camera is not light sensitive enough, then
this speed results in a nearly black image. See some
examples of the problems here:
http://www.sportsflashtech.com/gym.html

Answer 2

Indoor usually means poor light and gymnastics usually means you want a fast shutter time. Flash photography won't be appreciated, so the obvious solution is to crank up the ISO (preferably not so high that the image quality deteriorates) and use aperture-priority to open up the lens.
If you're using a more advanced camera, you can also consider the white balance. If you leave it on automatic, your pictures can end up with a color cast that you'll have to correct in post-processing. Some cameras have presets, and with others you can set a Kelvin temperature.
And a fourth setting you might consider is to spot meter for the gymnast's faces (check the histogram to make sure you don't lose too much other information).

Answer 3

can you use flash?

how are the light levels inside? if it's bright, then just photo away. if the light level is poor, then ideally you need a fast lens (f/2.5 or faster) and you need to set the iso to 400+ if you are gonna handhold the camera and not expect too much blur.

if you can't use these settings, or if you have a slow lens (f/4, f/5.6) and/or you get blurry photos, then you gotta go get a tripod, set the iso to 400+, stop down to the widest apeture you can get f/4+, and hope for the best.

Answer 4

When u take indoor shot (less) decreas ur contrast lavel from camera, if u gain up ur contrast when u taking pic lots of noise will come into ur shot!

When u take outdoor shot do opposite!