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Volleyball Photography, a tutorial
How to shoot volleyball action shots. I put this together for my
daughter's volleyball club. I'd appreciate reviews, additions, corrections... The target audience is primarily parents with point and shoot digitals (Christmas... heh.). But the concepts applt to DSLR as well. (My current weapon is a Canon 300D...). Here's the link: http://www.pearlandjrs.com/prep/phototutor.htm Here's an example of the tutorial in practice: http://www.pearlandjrs.com/team/resu...m/TCSQ15m.html |
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I didn't notice any mention of White Board settings at all. They're a pretty
important factor in taking indoor shots in a gym. Eddy "Steve Cutchen" wrote in message ... How to shoot volleyball action shots. I put this together for my daughter's volleyball club. I'd appreciate reviews, additions, corrections... The target audience is primarily parents with point and shoot digitals (Christmas... heh.). But the concepts applt to DSLR as well. (My current weapon is a Canon 300D...). Here's the link: http://www.pearlandjrs.com/prep/phototutor.htm Here's an example of the tutorial in practice: http://www.pearlandjrs.com/team/resu...m/TCSQ15m.html |
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["Followup-To:" header set to rec.photo.digital.]
Steve Cutchen wrote: How to shoot volleyball action shots. I put this together for my daughter's volleyball club. I'd appreciate reviews, additions, corrections... Couple of points: - Megapixel: The difference between a 2 and 4 MP camera is ... just a 20% border round the image. It doesn't even double the size --- that would need a 8 MP camera (and 4 times the memory for the pictures!) Oh, a 1024x786 monitor is 0.8 MPs, a *huge* 1600x1200 monitor shows less than 2 MPs! A 1600x1200 (2MP) image printed will have photo quality (300dpi) @ 5x4", and good quality (200dpi) at 8x6". Compare to 4MP (8x6", 11x9") --- not that much difference. = Do not fret over MPs. Fret over optic quality, low light autofocus capability, low high-ISO noise and fast AF/fast shutter instead. - "Set [ISO] as high as your camera will let you." Some cameras give unusable images at high ISO values. So some testing should be done beforehand. - If your camera supports it, set the apperture to f/2.8 (or whatever the largest apperture is). Let the camera set the speed --- unless you drop below, say 1/80th, then you have to force the camera. So you need a camera that will allow you to override it on time and apperture --- not all point&shoot cameras do that! - I don't think you'll need much of a monopod, not at 1/80 or 1/125, unless you have a 35mm equivalent of 80 or 120mm zoom. The problem is more the rapid movement of the players, where a monopod won't help. (neither will an image stabilizer --- it can dampen _your_ movements, not _players_ moving). - Use wide angle. Most cameras have no fixed appertu what starts at f/2.8 is f/4.7 at the tele end, 1.3 stops higher. Were you to shoot at 1/80s at the tele end, you could do 1/200 at the wide end --- or drop down one ISO step (if your camera is extra-noisy) and still use 1/100s. You might need to get closer to the field, but since most P&S cameras don't have a wide 'wide angle' (and even the DSLRs strain against the non-full-sensor sizes), this should be OK. - Additionally, "wide angle" reduces the impact of camera shake and can sometimes reduce the impact of player movements. - pre-squeeze basically lets the autofocus run (very slow) and does the light metering (extremely fast). Some cameras allow manual focussing, focussing with a pre-set range (fixed focus) or prefocussing by setting a distance, so the autofocus is deactivated. Doing this can help, if you can set the focus easily and exact enough. - some P&S cameras (and most DSLRs) can shoot series of images. If the series has 3 or more frames/second, you can get lucky and get that exceptional shot. But it eats memory (and battery --- always bring spare batteries and more memory) and you'll have to sort out many mediocre pictures. This can be a problem since it's less fun than shooting and wading through 500 pics to get the 20 really good ones is time consuming. But it _can_ give you the one very special picture, if you are lucky. -Wolfgang |
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