jonnyapple said:
Bland, that's impressive for ISO 3200.
Thanks jonnyapple and adamz, I shot this event to see how my 70-300VR would do indoors at ISO 3200 on my D90. The lighting was horrible to shoot in and I had to do a lot of editing, so this was the ultimate test. If I had been closer the camera and lens would of worked quite well. I was probably 150-200 feet away when taking my pictures from the stands.
Here's the original shot so you can see how it came out of the camera: http://i56.tinypic.com/34fm98n.jpg
When I tried to denoise the picture it literally blurred the pixels. So I just removed the shadows and it saved my shots. I used Topaz Adjust4/ShadowRecovery for that and all other editing was done with Nikon Picture Project because I had a lot of pictures to edit.