The professionals only show us the keepers.

Volleyball isn’t easy. Try focusing through the net, ha ha. Tip- focus on the legs under the net.

Floating ISO as someone else mentioned can be help or hinder. The place I shoot has those LED video boards at the sideline tables. Get one of those in a shot and everything goes dark.

When you shoot, ask yourself what you are shooting. Faces? Bold action shots? One particular player? Your why doesn’t have to stay the same for the whole game. You can mix it up the entire game. If you want to get everything you’ll get nothing.

Keep shooting and you’ll get better.

On my Nikon I experience sensor dust when I stop down to f/14 or more and shoot something that is a single color.

Other than that I don’t notice it. I don’t clean the sensor more than every year or so.

I don’t remember. Perhaps I was born with the interest.

When I was around 10 or so I would read books on photography. Books with pictures, books on how to take pictures, books on how cameras and darkrooms worked. I was 15 or so when I picked up my first camera, an Instamatic.

You can use a lower ISO or a higher shutter speed.

I’ve shot volleyball indoors with both lenses. I’d rather use the f/4 because it’s lighter. The shutter or ISO difference wasn’t worth it.

Congrats!