I am a 76 year-old Canadian visiting my son and grandchildren in California. I came equipped with excellent Sony A9 and Canon 5D III some pro lenses. However, during the pandemic, I have been using the equipment for the last 2 years. Memory of camera settings has gotten weaker and I have not done much sorts sooting of grandchildren in action. Last night, at the last minute, when my son asked me to capture my 10 year old grandson’s basketball game, I was panic struck. Then I found your five-minute video lesson on UA-cam. Voila - no more panic! Best 5 minutes I spent on photography lesson. Now I am ready to set my camera to Fast shutter speed 1/1000 sec, use my 70-200 mm lens to get close to action, to compose the action portion of the scene and track my grandson Nichola Jiwan’s impending action using Continuous Focus (C in SONY) and (Servo in CANON). Thanks to your excellent user-friendly video - no more panic. I am feeling ready to enjoy my time with my grandson and capture the precious memory to share with the extended family all over the world. Thanks to you. By: Nizar Jiwan
good tips. I will add a couple more. Where you position yourself can be a big deal. There will be days that the lighting is just not that great, so a shutter speed of 1/1000 may not be possible without under exposing your shots. For these days you can try to position yourself so that the players are coming towards you instead of side to side. That could allow you to have a 1/800 speed and get by and allow you to still stop the action. In addition, most modern cameras can shoot at higher iso when lighting is not good. Setting your iso to auto can help you get shots that you would not ordinarily be able to do
that was very helpful. i was suddenly thrown to a role where I have to take photos for documentation on our sports week even though I am a total amateur, having so many events happening once and not enough availability of people, i would like to help even though it ain't much.
Hi Rob:Great video as always.In this day of digital photography I find that a shutter speed of 1/2000 of a second should be chosen. Now I know that always isn't possible.But I feel that film you could choose a slower shutter.Just my opinion.
Not sure if my alservo is working.I have it switched on and my lens sounds like it is trying to focus.My focus points do not light up or beep when i half hold down the shutter button.Please give me some advise thanks.
Hey man. Get your aperture as wide open as your lens allows (lowest f number you can) then shutter to about 1/800th, then iso to whatever number you need to get a good exposure. If that leaves your images too grainy (due to too high iso) then lower that shutter to 1/640th and see how you get on. If you're not comfortable with manual with just use shutter priority mode (Tv for Canon) and set it to 1/800th, the camera will do the rest but you'll have less control.
@@RobSambles I am watching your part 2 right now. Only one thing that I want to make sure that I have the right set up on mk 3 is face and head detection.
what would be a good price for a canon 300mm F2.8 is lens ?their is one i like but is in italy on ebay price just over 2k looks new apart from the end rubber with buttons on has white stuff on the rubber. I think we are still in eu for know arent we ?
Great video, it’s easy to forget one of those when shooting fast action. I’ll add to the list to use mechanical over electronic where possible unless you have a camera that minimises with rolling shutter
This was excellent, I’m a complete beginner and this was very informative, thank you so much for showing examples on how to set the camera on the actual camera too!
Or increase your ISO, depending on your brand and the camera you are using you might not want to reach like 2000/3000 iso though, noise becomes a pain in the behind after those numbers
This is clickbait the title is so misleading and then he does say this later on. Some of the stuff he has a point but when you talk about shutter speed you have to talk about stadiums and ISO and a lot more about noise. When you say that you're going to have some extra noise you need a higher-end camera to reduce that noise down and let's talk about lenses the lens you showed was probably a thousand-dollar lens those big old Honkers
I am a 76 year-old Canadian visiting my son and grandchildren in California. I came equipped with excellent Sony A9 and Canon 5D III some pro lenses. However, during the pandemic, I have been using the equipment for the last 2 years. Memory of camera settings has gotten weaker and I have not done much sorts sooting of grandchildren in action. Last night, at the last minute, when my son asked me to capture my 10 year old grandson’s basketball game, I was panic struck. Then I found your five-minute video lesson on UA-cam. Voila - no more panic! Best 5 minutes I spent on photography lesson. Now I am ready to set my camera to Fast shutter speed 1/1000 sec, use my 70-200 mm lens to get close to action, to compose the action portion of the scene and track my grandson Nichola Jiwan’s impending action using Continuous Focus (C in SONY) and (Servo in CANON). Thanks to your excellent user-friendly video - no more panic. I am feeling ready to enjoy my time with my grandson and capture the precious memory to share with the extended family all over the world. Thanks to you. By: Nizar Jiwan
Thank you for being an amazing grandparent
good tips. I will add a couple more. Where you position yourself can be a big deal. There will be days that the lighting is just not that great, so a shutter speed of 1/1000 may not be possible without under exposing your shots. For these days you can try to position yourself so that the players are coming towards you instead of side to side. That could allow you to have a 1/800 speed and get by and allow you to still stop the action. In addition, most modern cameras can shoot at higher iso when lighting is not good. Setting your iso to auto can help you get shots that you would not ordinarily be able to do
that was very helpful. i was suddenly thrown to a role where I have to take photos for documentation on our sports week even though I am a total amateur, having so many events happening once and not enough availability of people, i would like to help even though it ain't much.
I'm a Canon guy here. new at that. the last tip was very helpful. thanks!!
Welcome!
Great tips. When you crop an image do you normally keep the original aspect ratio of 3:2 or do you not restrict the cropping parameters?
Great tips for sport and action photography in general.
Yeah absolutely - any action
New to photography. What model is recommended?
What camera would you recommend for someone who is just starting out?
Nice job Rob.
I want to know what focal lens will i need to photograph a player at the mid field from behind the goal post?
At mid field 300mm would reach on a full frame easily enough. 200mm with a little crop.
Hi Rob:Great video as always.In this day of digital photography I find that a shutter speed of 1/2000 of a second should be chosen. Now I know that always isn't possible.But I feel that film you could choose a slower shutter.Just my opinion.
Thanks Paul. If you can get to 1/2000 then great, I rarely find a problem with 1/1250 or even 1/1000 though
@@RobSambles Thanks Rob.I look forward to more videos.Would tennis be something you would consider doing.Be safe.
Very handy for my U13's rugby league photography. Thanks & subscribed.
Awesome thanks!
What aspect ratio should you be shooting in? Especially for prints
That depends a lot on what you're shooting for
Hi, I have a EOS Rebel T1i, do I need a long telephoto lens to take pictures of my kid's soccer match?
Nah cause this video actually improved and helped my photography. Best vid I had found!
Not sure if my alservo is working.I have it switched on and my lens sounds like it is trying to focus.My focus points do not light up or beep when i half hold down the shutter button.Please give me some advise thanks.
Thank you so much!!!
Hi Rob,,Could you please suggest , how to shoot a football game in flood light turf(where light source is limited) during nights?
Hey man. Get your aperture as wide open as your lens allows (lowest f number you can) then shutter to about 1/800th, then iso to whatever number you need to get a good exposure. If that leaves your images too grainy (due to too high iso) then lower that shutter to 1/640th and see how you get on. If you're not comfortable with manual with just use shutter priority mode (Tv for Canon) and set it to 1/800th, the camera will do the rest but you'll have less control.
Thank you
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Nice one Rob. Good, concise video.
Thank you mate
Thanks a lot, man
We need setup video on 1DX III for sport.
I wish I had a Mark iii to make the video. I could do one on my Mark i
@@RobSambles I am watching your part 2 right now. Only one thing that I want to make sure that I have the right set up on mk 3 is face and head detection.
@@tonys9731 Great stuff thank you
Thanks for the vid, though me broke af have to zone focus lmao
I love it.. ❤
Love the advice 🙌
Thanks Chloe
what would be a good price for a canon 300mm F2.8 is lens ?their is one i like but is in italy on ebay price just over 2k looks new apart from the end rubber with buttons on has white stuff on the rubber. I think we are still in eu for know arent we ?
It would depend a lot on the details of the condition but 2k seems a bit steep. I sold mine for about 1.5k
Great video, it’s easy to forget one of those when shooting fast action. I’ll add to the list to use mechanical over electronic where possible unless you have a camera that minimises with rolling shutter
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Make a video of how to transfer photos to a computer, and upload photos to social networks in real time
This vid is so good thank you very much!
Awesome
Awesome tips as always. We need a a Nikon version of this for settings haha maybe I should do that
Yeah go for it mate! I need to get more familiar with the names for the Nikon modes actually
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This was excellent, I’m a complete beginner and this was very informative, thank you so much for showing examples on how to set the camera on the actual camera too!
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Whenever I use fast shutter speed my photos come out super dark... what should I do to solve this?
Lower your f stop
Or increase your ISO, depending on your brand and the camera you are using you might not want to reach like 2000/3000 iso though, noise becomes a pain in the behind after those numbers
Found you!
Awesome - I'm glad to have you here!
This is clickbait the title is so misleading and then he does say this later on. Some of the stuff he has a point but when you talk about shutter speed you have to talk about stadiums and ISO and a lot more about noise. When you say that you're going to have some extra noise you need a higher-end camera to reduce that noise down and let's talk about lenses the lens you showed was probably a thousand-dollar lens those big old Honkers