Photographers, advice please.

[SkiMN]

I'm kind of a noob. I've shot skiing before, had a lot of pics come out great, but I'm still a noob. It looks like I'll be taking a lot of pics in the coming two weeks, seeing as I cant ski, but I can hike, however, most of this will be at night. I've got the lights in the park on poles to work with, but nothing great. What do I need to know? I'm shooting on a D50. I'd like to save the learning the hard way part, any advice I could get on settings, working with artificial lights, etc would be great. Thanks.

 

[Scottness]

make sure the majority of light is behind you, never frame your subject with light from behind, use a lens with like f1.8-2.4 and shoot lots of pics.

 

[Skipig25]

unless you want a silhouette. If you don't have a flash, I would recommend getting one, unless you don't want that kind of photo, then just use some fast glass and high iso. And shoot a lot, and look to see if they are coming out alright

 

[hartig]

yeah, get a flash, although i haven't gotten the chance to take skiing pictures yet this year (damn east coast), some of my favorite pics on here were made using flash in the right place

 

[LC.]

50/1.8 or 35/f2. Get a flash too though.

 

[hprychitka1242]

get a flash for sure!!!!

i have a sunpak555 for skateboardin night shots and it helps so damn much....just watch the flash placement,apprature, etc.

 

[flatspinner]

Def. flash.

Stay away from using a large zoom (ie. anything over 70mm)

Depending on what you're going for, wide angles work well with low light

 

[Snowcase]

I'm kind of in the same situation. I just got a d50 but I've been taking pictures my whole life. I need a flash and wide angle maybe 11 or 12mm not really sure which one but if anyone knows where to get one wanna point me in that direction?

 

[LC.]

Sigma 10-20. I love mine (photos below). Or a 10.5 fisheye is your other option but I don't think that's as versatile. For flash get an SB-800 for flash if you can afford it.

 

[cpas_]

If you are cheap you can get a flash and a optical slave trigger. This is a remote flash that is triggered by your on camera flash. I use one for mountain bike photography and it works alright for the price