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D3000 - Advice on Shooting Football Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 6312" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>I don't have the D3000 manual on my computer anymore so I don't know what "Guide" means. With any digital camera there is always a learning curve. It just takes practice to learn how to make changes in settings to accommodate different shooting conditions. The subject you chose to learn on, sports action, is not an easy shooting technique to begin with. Add to that you are learning to use the Nikon auto focus system and it's even more difficult. For the shot posted above you have all the right exposure settings. Once you learn to use the Nikon AF system it will be your best photo friend rather than your enemy. In sports action shooting the camera must focus right on the action you want to capture. Unfortunately and especially in football there is a lot of action going on around what you want to focus on. The point of focus in action shooting changes faster than you change it by pressing the shutter release button half way down to focus and then have to do it again to refocus. That's why you have to use the Auto Focus Continuous Mode (AF-C). In that mode with the shutter release pressed half way down the camera will continuously refocus as the action moves. Now the problem is to have the camera focus exactly on the action you are trying to capture. That's where you use the Dynamic area, AF-area Mode. The camera will then focus in a small area enclosed by the brackets in the view finder. But in the Dynamic area Mode the camera will hold the focus point even if the action is moving in and out of the focus zone. There is also a setting in the menus for Normal and Wide focusing zones. I would use the normal focus zone. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joseph Bautsch, post: 6312, member: 654"] I don't have the D3000 manual on my computer anymore so I don't know what "Guide" means. With any digital camera there is always a learning curve. It just takes practice to learn how to make changes in settings to accommodate different shooting conditions. The subject you chose to learn on, sports action, is not an easy shooting technique to begin with. Add to that you are learning to use the Nikon auto focus system and it's even more difficult. For the shot posted above you have all the right exposure settings. Once you learn to use the Nikon AF system it will be your best photo friend rather than your enemy. In sports action shooting the camera must focus right on the action you want to capture. Unfortunately and especially in football there is a lot of action going on around what you want to focus on. The point of focus in action shooting changes faster than you change it by pressing the shutter release button half way down to focus and then have to do it again to refocus. That's why you have to use the Auto Focus Continuous Mode (AF-C). In that mode with the shutter release pressed half way down the camera will continuously refocus as the action moves. Now the problem is to have the camera focus exactly on the action you are trying to capture. That's where you use the Dynamic area, AF-area Mode. The camera will then focus in a small area enclosed by the brackets in the view finder. But in the Dynamic area Mode the camera will hold the focus point even if the action is moving in and out of the focus zone. There is also a setting in the menus for Normal and Wide focusing zones. I would use the normal focus zone. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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