Shooting at Night or Indoors? Raise Your ISO!

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The biggest challenge of shooting sports happens when you shoot at night, or if you shoot indoors. That’s because, without that bright sunlight, your shutter speed will drop like a rock. There’s really only one way around this—you’ll have to raise your ISO like crazy to get your shutter speed back up to 1/1000 of a second to freeze sports action. So, why do we worry so much about raising the ISO? Well, it’s because the higher you raise your ISO, the more noise (grain) you’ll see in your photos. Today’s high-end sports cameras have very low noise, even at very high ISOs, but it’s still sometimes visible. ...

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