SergioSpain

A sealed aluminum tube high up in the atmosphere is about the worst place to experience an eclipse. You need to be down on the ground, in a field and feel the air cool, watch the flowers close,...

It benefits Shirley and other people as well!

You should just be able to pre-focus, or even focus manually. It's not like someone on the pitcher's mound is going to be moving very fast toward or away from you.

Guys, please take the Nikon v Canon discussion somewhere else. The fact that people who rely on their gear for a living use both says all that needs to be said about that pointless argument. TYVM.

I would really recommend the 1.4x TC for sports. I find that 98-280mm f4 is much more versatile in the daytime than 70-200 f2.8 with virtually no drop in IQ. Also, if you're going the Nikon route ...

Conventional wisdom says you should spend more on a good lens than on a good body, and since a 70-200 f2.8 is a must for anyone who is even remotely serious about sports photography, I would start ...

I've used this technique myself but on one shot in a set of 30. If you use it on every single shot it looks like you're trying to cover up some flaw or highlight your editing skills over your ...

Another reason I suggested not using a monopod is that if you're sitting on the ground (which you should be if at all possible to give your pics a more dramatic impact), you can just rest your ...

Why is a "scanning" shutter necessary? Is it because there would be too much data to process if it recorded every pixel at once?

No, maybe if you had a 300 f4 or a100-400. A monopod will limit the number of shots you can get. You can move the camera much faster without one.

Considering how fast AF systems are now, why would you need to pre-focus? And how would you even go about doing that in a rugby game?

Actually the grand prize winner looks like it's the least post-processed shot of the bunch.

I can't comment on the quality of the Tamron, but everything I've read indicates that the latest version of the Nikon 70-200 is a very minor improvement over the older model, especially if money ...

I've never had any complaints when I've taken pictures from behind the goal. The only problem is that the net can throw off the auto focus. As for flash, even though I've never used it, I've read ...

Wide open means put the mode dial in aperture priority and the f stop on the lens at the smallest number possible for that particular  lens, which will probably be  f4. Remember to shoot raw and ...

Auto ISO is fine, but you need to specify how high the ISO can go before the camera starts dropping the speed. Depending on your camera a good setting for that may be 6400. But if you let the ...

I'm guessing the player who complained was probably losing at that point and he wanted to vent his frustration at an easy target so he picked the photographers. Basically the players can make as ...

There may be fewer full-time sports photographers, and none on staff at the average newspaper, but all that means is that there are more freelancers, because the number of photographers on the ...

Something I forgot to mention is that it's better to have a handful of good pictures than hundreds of bad ones. Don't even bother taking the shot if the action is at the other side of the field. ...

f16 and f20 are way too high. Until you find your own technique, try these settings: aperture priority, wide open, auto ISO (set a minimum speed of about 1/1000), image stabilization off, no EV (it ...