Sports Photography

[Stradawhovious]

Yes an Escort would be a good car especially if it has a rally history, one that has been driven by a top driver is worth £100,000

My point is that an Escort would be the perfect car for someone who needs an Escort. Whereas for a family of 8, a Suburban might be more suitable.

 

[gsgary]

Yes an Escort would be a good car especially if it has a rally history, one that has been driven by a top driver is worth £100,000

My point is that an Escort would be the perfect car for someone who needs an Escort. Whereas for a family of 8, a Suburban might be more suitable.

Just googled Suburban and that is one pig ugly car

 

[DerekSalem]

Fast lens would be best in this scenario. Putting your camera on sports mode would mean shooting at 3 to 4 frames per second and that would fill up your memory card faster that usual and subjecting your camera to punishment, unless you have a pro body. If you have a consumer or prosumer body, I suggest you keep it at shutter priority as suggested by Rockstar. Shutter speed at 1/500 to still capture the swinging bat.

lol what? First of all Sports mode doesn't automatically switch to high-speed mode, that I'm aware of. Usually Sports mode will just prefer higher shutter speed over lower ISO/smaller aperture.

Either way...you're saying don't use high-speed mode because it will damage the body unless it's pro? What kind of terrible advice is that? The camera is *MEANT* to operate in the function that is available. They wouldn't make the camera able to shoot 3-4 fps unless it wouldn't put any undue stress on the body. It's completely safe to use high-speed mode for every actuation of your shutter...for the life of the camera body.

 

[imagemaker46]

Shoot with whatever you can afford to shoot with, but realize that a shorter lens put limits on where you can shoot from, if you shoot short get a spot behind the fence at home plate and shoot action there, you can shoot through the fences without too much trouble. Shutter speed is more important than f stop, if you can shoot around 5.6-6.3 that's where you should aim for, baseball is a sport of no motion, some motion and little fast motion, but working at 500th sec should be where you want to aim for. The rule that I have always followed is that "you do what you can, with what you have, from where you are" Baseball is boring to shoot, little happens, but most happens at 2nd base and homeplate, cover those two and you should do alright.