SkinnyFats wrote:You may not be able to adjust your current equipment to get the job done.
Look at it this way - the camera needs a certain amount of light to take the picture. The amount of light required depends on the ISO setting - the ISO tradeoff being that less light required (higher ISO) equals grainier, noisier pictures. Note that DSLRs can take far better pictures at high ISO than can point-and-shoot type cameras.
So you pick your ISO (thus setting the amount of light you need). Now you have to get that amount of light to the sensor. A short shutter speed means less blur in the pic, but also less light to the sensor. A large aperture means more light on the sensor, but the lens has a certain physical maximum it can be set to, and cheaper lenses tend to not be sharp at these settings.
In other words, it may not be physically possible to take the pictures you want with the equipment you have. To get the shutter speed high enough to remove blur, the amount of light entering the camera may result in a black picture. Raising the ISO way up may result in such a grainy crappy picture that you may not be satisfied anyway, etc. etc. That's why most point-and-shoot cameras take really nice pictures outside on sunny days - it's easy to get the light you need. Night games and indoor shots are much more challenging, and require different equipment to pull off what you want.
? and you didn't even mention the difference between Paramount lighting and Rembrandt lighting. You forgot to mention lens flair, oh and yes, remove the lens cap.
