5DM3 ISO 1600/3200 bad technique, or broken camera?

[Marsu42]

I never use micro adjust and shoot at F/2.8 or faster nearly all the time.

I guess that means that you're only Canon lenses - 3rd party manufacturers are said to have more variance in their lenses, thus requiring af adjustment more often. And that would be one of the reasons Canon cut afma from the 60d, other than increasing the difference to the 7d of course.

 

[AJ]

Yes you could work with ambient and crank up the exposure another stop or two.

Or - you could do the strobist thing. Keep background exposure the same, and place a flash off-camera to the side. You could set it on the boards. Shoot direct or through an umbrella. Press the shutter when your daughter faces in the same direction as the flash. Play with flash power and see what happens. Good luck!

i don't think flash is allowed at the rink

Did you ask them? Or are you assuming?

 

[agierke]

i'm pretty sure flash during ice skating is generally frowned upon. i have shot diving and flash was completely prohibited. reason behind it was they didn't want the athletes to be distracted or disoriented during a critical moment that may result in them crashing and injuring themselves.

i could be wrong with ice skating but i wouldn't be surprised if they said no.

 

[AJ]

This is a skating practice. Read the original post. Just the OP and his daughter getting some ice time. It's not a competition with officials and rules and such.

 

[cpsico]

Thanks again

Re sarcasm, wasn't really serious, should have put smiley.

Re metering, I was in manual.

Re plexiglass, sadly no, I wish I could blame that, but no glass of any sort

Re 60D, this was my first time shooting ice skating, my 5D3 is new but it's not my first camera. Started with Fuji bridge camera, then 30D then 5D2 then 5D3. My first good lenses where Sigma. And the reason for my post was exactly as you mentioned, we're the images typical and I was expecting too much, or did I have a faulty camera.

You guys have convinced me camera is fine, and it's all down to user error/difficult scene.


Re 600rt, can't afford it, but is its only 2m better than 580 can it be that much brighter ?

Learning how to read a histogram will greatly improve your exposure accuracy , if there is a lot of white there should a big spike almost all the way to but not touching the right, grey, light blue like sky dead in the middle black just like white but way to the left. Any mid tone should have a nice hump in the middle. If blacks, whites and mid tones are all in the shot you would have a hump in the middle with spikes on both sides.

 

[photokid]

Thanks for all your replies guys, will take your advice on board and try again next week.