I will be taking some hockey/wrestling photos again this winter but I will not be using auto settings all of the time this year.

For hockey, do you think I should be up at the top of the stands or rink side? I’m relatively new to sports photography (almost 1 1/2 years) so any feedback is appreciated.

  • taspleb@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I shoot outdoor sports but in terms of manual settings my process is:

    Set shutter speed to something that will freeze fastest action (for me 1/1000), set aperture to something that will have a decent DOF and image quality (f/8), then set iso to auto.

    If the light gets bad I’ll reduce the aperture first and then the shutter speed but I leave the iso on auto because if it goes too high with my minimum settings I wouldn’t have got a workable photo anyway.