On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:24:44 -0400, Ken Hart
wrote:

On 09/24/2018 08:51 PM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:23:55 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

I thought that you might find this interesting. A new Fujifilm X-T3 owner
trying the new 30fps burst mode, with appropriate AF-C& tracking in the X-T3
at his son’s football game at Wheaton College over the weekend, posted this
series on Flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30161756@N00/albums/72157700104730751


I just shot part of a game Thursday night and caught middle grandson
(#9) flagrantly fouling a defensive player (#54) on a punt return.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Current/i...18-09-21-8.jpg

I'm still using my Nikon D300, so I'm very limited at weekday games.
The D300 is incapable of low-light photography at a fast shutter speed
at any ISO, and I'm done shooting about half time at a game that
starts at 5:30.

This grandson is on the (high school) freshman team, and his
year-older brother plays JV. That game starts after the freshman game
is over, so I never get photos of that game.

The punter in the Wheaton shots is a good example of 30fps series
because the photographer can isolate one player that he knows will be
a good subject, but he did miss the toe-on-the-ball shot. He got the
laces on the ball on what was probably not that good a punt. Looks
like it would go out of bounds to the right.

What that pfs would be good for is following a pass receiver and
hoping for a fingertip catch.

When I lived in Chicago, Wheaton was considered to be the Oral Roberts
University of the Midwest.


As most of you know, I have no experience with digital cameras, so you
can feel free to tell me why my old techniques won't work.

In the old days, I shot a lot of high school football with my 35mm SLR
and a fairly powerful manual strobe. I used Tri-X (ASA 400), and flash
sync shutter speed of 1/30. The strobe could light up the near side hash
mark at about f/11. This exposure combination could stop the action with
the flash, but was not enough to allow the ambient field lighting to
register. Of course, this required that I wait for the action to come to
where I was "preset", but since the newspaper (and the yearbook) only
had room for one or two photos of each game, I had no problem getting
what I needed.

The point being that it is the flash that is stopping the action, not
the shutter. Will this not work with the D300 or similar cameras?

You can't use a flash at a high school football game. Not allowed.

There are people up in the stands using P&S cameras that don't know
how to turn the flash off, but the flash from there is not really a
problem and not at all effective. Even so, they will be told to stop
using the flash.

When the boys were playing Pop Warner football, I was allowed on the
sidelines because I knew the coaches. Now that the boys are in high
school, I can't get on the sidelines or even close. I have to stay
behind a fence that is set back from the track that surrounds the
field.

Only a school photographer with a school-issued badge is allowed on
the sidelines.

There's even a new rule this year that I can't bring my camera bag
into the stadium. Any bag or knapsack must be transparent plastic.
Schools are very security conscious, and I can't blame them.


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida