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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Get out there and start doing it. Volunteer for high school or less sought after sports initially. Use the highest shutter speed you are capable of with a reasonable ISO. I shoot soccer at 1/5000 in daytime at an ISO of 250-500. I start lowering shutter as needed to keep ISO under 2000 and start ti be more picky about shots that don’t require the faster speeds. Makes for a great game catalogue. You can have much higher ISO and get away with it but lower is always better when possible.





  • I ordered the 400 2.8 from Nikon at its release. Months later, they couldn’t ship or provide updates so I moved to Sony. Not sure if Nikon is better now. I actually shoot RAW to maintain more control of the light and run about 1-2 minutes per photo processing on the long side. If I’m particular about the shot and don’t have to crop I can run them in 30 seconds. This requires a super fast laptop that ran the same price as my cameras.


  • Honestly the in-game shots are mostly for preset graphics which are sent each quarter online. The teams will use old photos if they have to, and you can generally get the feel of the game’s situation to limit the risk. It is generally understood you won’t catch every moment, and, the games are televised so they can revert to video as well. I’ve heard many crowd eruptions when in the team room processing photos and not lost sleep over it.