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Tennis photos
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Howdy
The first one is nice action shot. It seems to suffer a little from motion blur so I’d try and use a higher shutter speed if you can next time. Also, in sports photography, the general rule is to crop tight so you can highlight the action. There are loads of exceptoins to this of course but I don’t think this is one!The second one is severly underexposed or else a silhouette gone wrong. :)
thanks for the advice. It’s much appreciated.
I don’t have the fastest sports lens ; 55-250 f4-5.6 which is not going to be ideal .
I’d love to own a 70-200 F2.8 IS but can’t quite afford one. :D
just checked the EXIF on my first shot. Very surprised there’s motion blur.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 100 mm2nd shot
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 84 mmIt may not be motion blur. It may just be slightly out of focus. I presumed it was motion blur as the subject was moving.
What were you trying to achieve with the second shot? Was it just underexposed or were you trying a silhouette?
I was actually trying to achieve a silhouette but it didn’t quite work out the way I wanted.
Just as a matter of interest, is Servo focus mode always used in sports photos?
Pretty much.
In sport you need to focus on a moving subject so AI servo is the way to go.
Sometimes you would use One Shot, for example if you were shooting Show Jumping then you could pre-focus on the fence and fire the shutter as the horse clears the fence. There are other occasions also where you would use One Shot but I would imagine in 99% of cases it would be AI servo.Personally, I use AI servo regardless of what I was shooting unless I was 100% certain that the subject isn’t moving, such as a landscape.
For a Silhouette to work, you need much brighter light in the background than the subject. In your example, the light in the background isn’t much brighter than the subject and there is also a hedge in the way. You really need the background to be a few stops brighter and have no dark objects, like the hedge, in the background.
that’s great advice.
One more question. My camera is a 20D and it has 9 AF points. I tend to just use the centre point for focusing.
Would it be useful to use Auto AF point selector for sports?
Sorry for the questions but I’m not very good at shooting sports and I would love to get better.
For sport I use:
Centre Point Focusing
High ISO
High Shutter
Low Aperture
AI Servo
High FPS
Large Jpeg
Either Manual Exposure or Tv with spot metering. 99% of the time it would be Manual only.I would definitely try to get a hold of a 70-200mm f2.8 if I were you! You might get one on one of the 2nd hand sites easy enough. I know having the IS is a nice touch but if you are using High Shutter speeds and are relatively steady handed (or using a monopod) you should be able to achieve nice results. The difference between the f2.8 and dealing with f4-5.6 is quite big and you wont regret spending for it!!
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