So I finally had time to go to that circus earlier this evening and the main reason I went there was to take some pictures and see how hard it really is to take low light action photos with crappy equipment lol. I am not really disappointed with the results because I knew there would be a lot of motion blur but I was surprised by the low noise level in some of the photos course they were all taken at ISO 1600 and 3200 lol. I am also surprised to see over saturation in many of the photos to so I had to cheat and desaturate some of them in PS lol. I took over 160 pictures at that circus but only those below are half good enough to be posted in here

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4. This is the only picture that I had to use NoiseNinja.


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Wow. Nice ISO handling as you say.
Nice to see you got some action in your photos.The last one is great with the diabolic theme. xD

11. cute horsies ^^


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14. Stupid motion blur


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16. Doggies!!


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20. It was a nice evening

Yeah I could almost imagine Diablo the lord of terror rising behind those guys lmao xD

21. MORE PICTURES!!!


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25. and I took this one on my way home lol.


This post was edited by Futurama on May 31 2009 12:56am

Ah sorry I interrupted your photo posting. xD
Those horse are..... ehm.. "AD! De er jo vamle!".

What was the guy at 12 and 13 doing ?

Wow. The bottle photo is amazing. I really like the bokeh and the different angle + the stars!

This post was edited by Qhotex on May 31 2009 12:58am

haha it's ok I am sure you didn't expect me to post 6545645 pictures this time course usually I only post like 65456 xD
hmm what does "vamle" mean? adorable?

Well that clown or more like a joker was dragging people from the audience so they would play some random instrument and of course usually they would make some random crappy noise and if they do he would drag them to the backstage and "shoot" them lol after he was done shooting the person who failed the test he would come back and blow out a candle but at the end he got "shot" by a lil kid. It's quite a silly show and you have to be there to actually find it some what amusing and funny

This post was edited by Futurama on May 31 2009 01:08am

Damn, those are good futu. It's friggin' hard to take low-light action shots =( I've tried taking shots of my friends band at every one of their gigs this past month and they've all came out bad. I've never dared go over iso 1000 either though.

Thanks, buddy!
As I mentioned those are the more acceptable photos I took at the circus the others have just waaay too much motion blur. I believe I would have needed a faster lens for low light action photos like those probably the EF 70-200 f/2.8 or EF 85 f/1.8
I am sure Nikon has similar lenses. hmm have you actually tried to go higher than ISO 1000? There is no way you could get any decent shot below ISO 1600 with the lens you have now

Nope! I did however take a pretty cool iso 1600 shot with my sister's boyfriend's wide-angle lens a few secs ago. I'll post it in a sec if it looks decent on the comp.

The bottle is my favorite.