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John Masterson (DOGBYTE) 0 pts

June 24, 2009 12:25 PM

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what is the best setting for outside sports shootin, baseball

I live in Orlando Fl. Very sunny in most cases. Looking for rapid fire action shots with my D40x Nikon. Thinking set on "A" for aperture to get action. Make sense?
Also, should I use a polorized filter?
Thanks in advance .
John

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by James DeRuvo (byjamesderuvo) 58446 pts

June 26, 2009 1:35 AM

A quick Google search yields a ton of result on sports photography. One in particular:

[i[Apertures like f/2.8 and f/4 will not only result in faster shutter speeds, but will isolate your subject from the rest of the objects in the picture due to their shallower depth of field. But you'll have to keep an eye on the shutter speed.

For small kids 1/125s or 1/250s may be fine. For larger, faster kids, and faster athletes in general, 1/250 is often the absolute minimum, and 1/500 is great if you can get it. If you can get 1/1000 you'll freeze them like stone.

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