Have you ever tried taking action shots without having lots of light available. If you have then you probably know how it feels to have a lot of photos come out bad and getting very frustrated. I remember when I didn't know how to do this right I was always looking for the answer yet could never find it. But taking action photos in low light is not that hard and I will show you how to do it right.

First off, in order to take photos of motion without a lot of light you will need a somewhat quality camera. It needs to let you have control over some settings. If it is a fully automatic camera you will have a very difficult time to get it right and may never at all. Most likely you probably have either a point and shoot or an SLR. If you've got an SLR then you will have much more control over your images.

You're probably wondering why so many action shots end up to be blurry. The reason is mostly because of the automatic mood or the shutter speed that you set. Because there isn't lots of light the automatic mode will adjust the shutter speed to expose the image longer. Because of this the camera is moved during this exposure resulting in blur. Low levels of light require more time to be exposed and blur can be a big problem.

The first thing you are going to want to do to remedy this problem is make the shutter speed settings faster. One of the drawbacks to doing this is that your picture can have some more noise. However, this is better than having blur and not seeing the picture at all.

When taking action shots it most likely will be very difficult if not impossible to provide more light to the scene. Your flash will usually be useless since the action taking place will be too far for the light to hit.

When speeding up the exposure time try increasing it in a few settings and then increasing it some more. Do this until you reach the desired exposure you want to have.