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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 198683" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well, if it were me, I'd try to get there early and stake out a good spot in advance. It sounds like you don't have a tripod so you'll be shooting off-hand, correct? I'm assuming you will be. I'd take the 70-300mm, put the aperture at f/5.6 and meter the scene. If I could get away with a smaller aperture, so much the better but my point here being... I'd let the ISO go as high as it needed to keep my shots at 1/60s or faster with an aperture in the f/5.6 range (notice I said &quot;range&quot;). At 200mm your depth of field at f/2.8 is going to be miiiighty slim, probably around 6&quot; or so if I had to guess and even less at 300mm, so I'd avoid going really wide as much as possible. I'd also use a tripod if I could... Creatively speaking don't get hung up on the idea that every...single... shot... needs to have absolutely crisp stop-action; a little motion blur can be a nice dynamic for sports shots like these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 198683, member: 13090"] Well, if it were me, I'd try to get there early and stake out a good spot in advance. It sounds like you don't have a tripod so you'll be shooting off-hand, correct? I'm assuming you will be. I'd take the 70-300mm, put the aperture at f/5.6 and meter the scene. If I could get away with a smaller aperture, so much the better but my point here being... I'd let the ISO go as high as it needed to keep my shots at 1/60s or faster with an aperture in the f/5.6 range (notice I said "range"). At 200mm your depth of field at f/2.8 is going to be miiiighty slim, probably around 6" or so if I had to guess and even less at 300mm, so I'd avoid going really wide as much as possible. I'd also use a tripod if I could... Creatively speaking don't get hung up on the idea that every...single... shot... needs to have absolutely crisp stop-action; a little motion blur can be a nice dynamic for sports shots like these. [/QUOTE]

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