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D3000 - Advice on Shooting Football Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 3699" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>Are you shooting at night using stadium lights? Or will you be shooting in daylight? It makes a big difference with the f/3.5 lens you have. Aside from that, shooting from the bleachers with 18-55mm is not going to give you very good close up action shots of your son. It will be more like shots of a bunch of small kids running around out on a football field. At all of these kids football games that I've shot over the years no one has ever told me not to get on the side lines to get some shots. The sidelines is where you will capture the best of the action. Even then a 18-55mm is not going to get you in very close. You will have to have patience and wait for the action to come to you before shooting. Best place to be is down field in the direction to offense is running to. Then the action is moving toward you.</p><p></p><p>Shots that are too grainy is probable due to the ISO being to high or trying to enlarge small pictures too large. I would not use an ISO or more than 400. Less would be better. Some cameras can handle a higher ISO without a lot of grain but I don't think the D3000 can. For day light shots an ISO of 200 would be better. </p><p></p><p>A blurry shot is either out of focus or as you indicate camera shake. To eliminate focus blur press the shutter half way down and let the camera focus before pressing all the way down. If your camera has it, use the dynamic focusing setting. Put the focusing point on the moving subject and press the shutter button half way down. Let the camera focus and then shot. In dynamic focusing the camera should hold the focus long enough for you to get the shot. The other aspect of blurry shots is camera shake. That is solely due to slow shutter speed for the focal length of the lens. For these action shots keep the shutter speed at least 1/125. Even then you may still get some action blurring. A speed of 1/250 is better and 1/500 is even better. </p><p></p><p>For daylight shooting I would start with shutter priority and the speed set at 1/250 and let the camera determine the best f/stop. With that I would set the ISO at 200. It's a starting point. Before the game take some shots of the players warming up and see how the settings work out. </p><p></p><p>I have used monopods at football games before. I found they were more trouble than they were worth. The only thing a monopod does is eliminate camera shake. If you keep the shutter speed at or above 1/125 camera shake should not be a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 3699, member: 654"] Are you shooting at night using stadium lights? Or will you be shooting in daylight? It makes a big difference with the f/3.5 lens you have. Aside from that, shooting from the bleachers with 18-55mm is not going to give you very good close up action shots of your son. It will be more like shots of a bunch of small kids running around out on a football field. At all of these kids football games that I've shot over the years no one has ever told me not to get on the side lines to get some shots. The sidelines is where you will capture the best of the action. Even then a 18-55mm is not going to get you in very close. You will have to have patience and wait for the action to come to you before shooting. Best place to be is down field in the direction to offense is running to. Then the action is moving toward you. Shots that are too grainy is probable due to the ISO being to high or trying to enlarge small pictures too large. I would not use an ISO or more than 400. Less would be better. Some cameras can handle a higher ISO without a lot of grain but I don't think the D3000 can. For day light shots an ISO of 200 would be better. A blurry shot is either out of focus or as you indicate camera shake. To eliminate focus blur press the shutter half way down and let the camera focus before pressing all the way down. If your camera has it, use the dynamic focusing setting. Put the focusing point on the moving subject and press the shutter button half way down. Let the camera focus and then shot. In dynamic focusing the camera should hold the focus long enough for you to get the shot. The other aspect of blurry shots is camera shake. That is solely due to slow shutter speed for the focal length of the lens. For these action shots keep the shutter speed at least 1/125. Even then you may still get some action blurring. A speed of 1/250 is better and 1/500 is even better. For daylight shooting I would start with shutter priority and the speed set at 1/250 and let the camera determine the best f/stop. With that I would set the ISO at 200. It's a starting point. Before the game take some shots of the players warming up and see how the settings work out. I have used monopods at football games before. I found they were more trouble than they were worth. The only thing a monopod does is eliminate camera shake. If you keep the shutter speed at or above 1/125 camera shake should not be a problem. [/QUOTE]
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