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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · basketball AF point / framing technique suggestions | |
Guy,
I don't know if I understood all your questions.
I shoot vertically, and I set my focus point to one or two below center. This combination helps to assure that I don't cut off anything important at the top of the frame. I can live without the lower legs but not without the ball! If I were shooting with a 1.6x crop camera, I'd sit as close to the corner (where sideline meets baseline) as possible (assuming the 70-200).
Not sure what you're asking about the timing of the shutter capture. As with anything, you're trying to capture peak action. But you don't always know exactly when that's going to happen, so there are situations where firing off several shots in succession makes sense. Examples include a player driving to the basket (you don't know what kind of contact there might be from a defender or just where in the drive this will happen), player going up for a layup (hard to know exactly when an arm might be blocking the face), etc. Unless you're using strobes, I can't think of any good reason to limit yourself to a single shot and hope to time it perfectly. I'm not suggesting spray and pray, just knowing when it makes sense to capture a sequence.
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