Photography Tips: Shooting Sports Photography

In the video i go over the settings that i use for shooting sports photography on a Nikon D3000 with a 70-300 VR Lens.

Sample Pictures with this setup:
http://nerdish.co.uk/?page=MCFC/Training%2027-08-2010

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[lmf1479]

HI! I have the 3000 with the lens it came with. What would i set my camera to for cheer leading? My pics come out very blurry. Also, my normal pictures are sometimes blurry.

Thanks!

[nerdishcouk]

@lmf1479 You need to set your camera to aperture priority and ISO 800, with those settings the camera should choose you a fast enough shutter speed to capture the motion.

[Redwan46]

Awesome picture you got there.

Btw what photo editing doftware are you using?

[nerdishcouk]

@Redwan46 Hi, thanks for the comment, I use Adobe Lightroom.

[JC040696]

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[extraMAYYO]

Im going to be taking photos of skateboarding with my canon 60d . what settings should i have my camera on? im going to need my full fps potential

[TheHipocritus]

And i say on any Good Camera set it to S (Shutter Priority) then set the shutter spped to 500 -1000

[AdamW582]

Why would you shoot at an ISO of 800 in broad daylight? Last I checked you should be shooting with a ISO of a 800-1600 at night or shooting indoors with a 70-200mm f/2.8

[spirg]

I used the 70/300 nikkor , along with my d90 , at a recent air show in NJ , what a Sweet lens !!!!

[boxy95]

why not use manual mode? You can manually set the aperture, shutter speed and ISO . Then you can eliminate accidental action blur .

[MadmanDKDK]

How is that low-rate FPS working for ya ? :P

[kevinwong530]

If your pictures have a lot of motion blur try turning up your shutter speed above 1/200th. Make sure there is plenty of light on the subject your shooting or your picture will be dark or your camera will decide to slow your shutter speed to compensate with the lighting.

[henryyparkinsonn]

awsome man :D really helped :)

[qqstar999]

When your shooting sports

Tv = God Mode

Av = Newbie