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Hello again, just some more advice needed if you wouldn't mind.

I'm involved in a charity golf event next weekend and I was going to take my brand spanking shiny new Sony A300 along with me to get some photos of the team before teeing off etc. I then thought I might take a few photos of some of the team actually teeing off using the continuous shutter mode. Given it will be outside and (hopefully) a nice sunny day what kind of settings do you think would provide the best picture eg ISO, shutter speed etc? The golf swing can be quite fast at times so I'm not sure what kind of settings to use whilst trying to take exposures of it (I've just started reading "Understanding Exposure" so what I used to call 'pics' I now call 'exposures'......I'm trying :) )

Any help much appreciated as always.
 
Hi Villegas,

You've got a few options really, depending on what you want to achieve. Most people when shooting fast moving objects instantly want to 'freeze' the action, which is fine and appears to be what you are after. In which case you want a nice high shutter speed, assuming you're reasonably close to the action you might be looking at 1/1000 upwards depending on how much light there is.A large aperture (small f number) will help on the light front and may give a pleasing spearation between golfer and background audience.

Another option is to go with something a little more artsy and allow some motion blur to creep in to emphasize the action. Try a slower shutter speed (1/40 for example) and capture a swing with a single expsoure whilst keeping your camera extremely steady. Experimenting with differing sspeeds will give different results. A nice blurred club/arms combined with sharp legs/background would be my aim.

Hope that helps.
 
kalibre said:
Hi Villegas,

You've got a few options really, depending on what you want to achieve. Most people when shooting fast moving objects instantly want to 'freeze' the action, which is fine and appears to be what you are after. In which case you want a nice high shutter speed, assuming you're reasonably close to the action you might be looking at 1/1000 upwards depending on how much light there is.A large aperture (small f number) will help on the light front and may give a pleasing spearation between golfer and background audience.

Another option is to go with something a little more artsy and allow some motion blur to creep in to emphasize the action. Try a slower shutter speed (1/40 for example) and capture a swing with a single expsoure whilst keeping your camera extremely steady. Experimenting with differing sspeeds will give different results. A nice blurred club/arms combined with sharp legs/background would be my aim.

Hope that helps.
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That is SO helpful, thank you very much. What I might do is get the wife to take a few shots of me swinging a club in the garden one evening this week using the different settings you've suggested there (I've cut, pasted, printed!). I'll then take a couple of different ones next weekend and post them up if they're any good. I still haven't posted any pictures up yet so bear with me if they're rubbish!
 
Glad to help, don't be disheartened if they don't come out as intended; this game is all about practice and you could do it 50 years and still learn something new each day.
 
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