The subject says it.

What I am trying to do. Take picture of baseball, my son and the team. We are in League ball State Championship right now. If we win we will go to the World series

I am not having trouble during the day taking photos.

I am having trouble taking photos at night. I can not use the flash. What do my setting need to be in order to achieve the best photo possible.

I need help and I have to leave for the road in about 4 hours to get to the game.

Example of night shot below:

Is it digital? Or film

Edit- sorry I bet you have already left, and I have been out all day.

Sorry I missed this too, I was out all yesterday. Night shots are always the worst for me too. A good lens with a nice f-stop will do a lot though. Action the dark, that's asking for a hard photo, LOL.

Yes digital. Canon Rebel XTi

I ened up using an ISO of 6000, shutter speed of 200, and F4.5. Crazy setting, the pictures were a little dark, and seem to have like a tanish tint to them last night but the parents were happy to pay for anything.

I have a Nikon D40x with a 18-55MM lens. I tried shooting fireworks on the 4th of July and they came out terrible. I took it off auto, of course, but with the camera on manual I had no idea what to do.

If anyone who answers Jeff knows how to shoot fireworks at night with this particular camera please let me know.

NT50 wrote:

Yes digital. Canon Rebel XTi I ened up using an ISO of 6000, shutter speed of 200, and F4.5. Crazy setting, the pictures were a little dark, and seem to have like a tanish tint to them last night but the parents were happy to pay for anything.

Low light photography comes at a price, the higher iso, usually comes with color shifts (in film) so I would assume your seeing the digital equiv. of that.
I dunno, however, honestly the only digital I have ever used is my point and shoot..... Well I did use a digital 4x5 view camera for quite some time, but that would have been the ancient days of digital photography (guess you could say I was riding around in a covered wagon processing tintypes for the people)...
Glad you got something worked out, sorry this time of year I am usually out on the road on Sundays and Saturdays in the mornings till early afternoon (oh is it hot this time of year here, lol).
Believe it or not, I still use only film for anything I deem important or plan to sell. But then thats just my preferences... (well that and I have yet to invest in a real digital camera... cant justify the cost.)

phileysmiley wrote:

I have a Nikon D40x with a 18-55MM lens. I tried shooting fireworks on the 4th of July and they came out terrible. I took it off auto, of course, but with the camera on manual I had no idea what to do. If anyone who answers Jeff knows how to shoot fireworks at night with this particular camera please let me know.

I had a Professional tell me once with a D200 that fireworks were "difficult" to say the least. I was dumb enough to try and photograph lightning once (from a far of course). If you looked at my photos you'd have thought I was taking dark room photos, LOL. Lightning it just a tad too fast for me and my camera.

I imagine a tripod, quick shutter speed, and real good f-stop are all required. Might be cool to just open up the lens a bit and watch the result. I did that with the stars in Hawaii once and it looked pretty cool. Amazing how much they moved in just 2 min time.

Yea I did all mentioned and I can get the picture just "tinted" wrong. Everybody looks like they have a savage tan almost lolololol

example below.............



edit:

BTW I also had my AV set to -2 so xi coudl concentrate on the subject and blur the backgroung............ That coudl also be why my pics are darker..........

Don't suppose they're the Indians? LOL

I don't mess with the ISO or AV much myself. Maybe that's a good thing though. Sometimes I figure the camera is just smarter than my n00bness. I like shooting in Manual now, but only to the degree I'm controlling the Aperture and Shutter speed.

Photography is one of those things that either:

a.) You get really darn lucky and get the perfect shot with the perfect conditions the first try. OR, more likely...
b.) You wait 3 hours for the right light, weather, and general conditions, etc and you still end up with 35 photos that look like crap and one good one (sorta).

But hey, it was fun

Its not about the camera but the glass attached.
I have taken sports pictures at night under the lights and they came out great. Stopped action with nice light and color. You will need a lens with an aperature if at least 2.8.
Shooting with an XTI The best lens you could get for baseball IMO wqould be the EF 70-200 f2.8L IS.
As already mentioned this comes with a price tag. Lens retails for around $1800 and they only go up from there. Too high of an ISO might get a picture but it wont get "the shot"