Chapter 3: Sports and Action
In This Chapter
Chasing an F-22 Raptor
Going home
Rounding the post
Driving the lane
Taxiing out for a takeoff
Shutter speed. Shutter speed. I don’t meant to repeat myself, but shutter speed. If you want to take action shots, you must make shutter speed your top priority. All else is secondary. Use the largest aperture you can and raise the ISO as much as you need to. A blurry action shot isn’t worth printing out and framing. I know. Believe me!
The other part to keep in mind is how transitory things are: People, planes, horses, buggies — whatever you’re after is in motion. You can’t use a relaxed focusing mode. Put your camera in a continuous focus mode so that it keeps focusing as long as you have the shutter pressed halfway. Use a single AF point, unless it’s something whose motion is so random you can’t track it; in that case you can try a zone or other more advanced AF mode (if you have it). You can read more about autofocus in Book I, Chapter 5 ...
