Shooting Sports Like a Pro
SCOTT KELBY
SCOTT KELBY
Another Reason to Keep Shooting After the Play
If you’re shooting a team sport like football, it’s easy to have the player you just shot carrying the ball, lost in a big pile of jerseys. Who was that player? Was it #22 or #37? If you keep shooting for a few moments after the play is whistled dead, you’ll be able to see who finally comes up with the ball, and you’ll have a reference photo with their number on it, so you can figure out later who the ball carrier on that play actually was. In the example shown here, when the player started getting up (shown on the right), I could see his number on the top of his shoulder pad (#34).
Add a Battery Grip for More Frames Per Second You can get more frames per second with certain Nikon cameras (like the D300 or D700) by adding a battery grip. Adding one (and using the proper battery configuration) increases your fps rate, sometimes pretty significantly. For example, adding a battery grip to a Nikon D700 increases the fps from five frames per second to eight frames per second. That’s a 60% increase in frame rate (not to mention that with a battery grip, you now have a shutter button on top for shooting vertical, which believe me, makes all the difference in the world).
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