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<blockquote data-quote="btrotter" data-source="post: 49831" data-attributes="member: 9206">Eye-level: I like having having a really shallow depth of field so that she is in focus but the crowd behind her is blurry. I thought the only way to really get that is to keep the aperture at 2.8. I am also really new at photography and am just getting past the basics. I like driving a standard transmission myself, but for me, I am just graduating up from a bicycle to a car, so an auto transmission is still advanced for me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />DW: The hardest problem with AF-C and the specific event I have the most problems with (Gymnastics uneven bars) is that she is spinning around on the bars and I am standing 75-100 feet away trying to hold the focus dot of a camera with a heavy lens steady on her. Small object with quick suddens motions, but all just spinning on a series of bars the same distance from you.I am going to get set up early and shoot a bunch of pictures while the girls are warming up and see how they look with the different focus settings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="btrotter, post: 49831, member: 9206"] Eye-level: I like having having a really shallow depth of field so that she is in focus but the crowd behind her is blurry. I thought the only way to really get that is to keep the aperture at 2.8. I am also really new at photography and am just getting past the basics. I like driving a standard transmission myself, but for me, I am just graduating up from a bicycle to a car, so an auto transmission is still advanced for me :) DW: The hardest problem with AF-C and the specific event I have the most problems with (Gymnastics uneven bars) is that she is spinning around on the bars and I am standing 75-100 feet away trying to hold the focus dot of a camera with a heavy lens steady on her. Small object with quick suddens motions, but all just spinning on a series of bars the same distance from you. I am going to get set up early and shoot a bunch of pictures while the girls are warming up and see how they look with the different focus settings. [/QUOTE]

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