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Originally Posted by DBall
What about quicker moving things like kickflips/tre flips/etc. where the board is whipping around... have you taken any of those?
Seeing pictures like this confirms that I have no clue what I'm doing with my camera...
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Taking action shots you have to know how to work the camera's settings and make them work for you to get the image YOU want. When I am taking action shots I usually take my camera in full auto mode and 'half-click and see what the camera is choosing' and then make my own adjustments from there to 'get what I want'. You have to know how the following work, aperture, iso, and speed, and how they work with each other.
ISO is basically film speed. The higher the number the less light you need to get a faster shutter speed. But also you get image noise as you go higher. Sometimes that is just a sacrifice you have to make.
Aperture is the setting the allows more or less light in. The lower the number 1.8 2.0 the more light is let in and the faster shutter speed you can get. But as you allow more light in with larger aperture (larger being smaller numbers...I know confusing) then the depth of field gets smaller, meaning you will have less room for error in your focusing plane.
Shutter speed is the amount of time that the shutter stays open, the longer it stays open the more movement will blur your picture.
So back to the question about flip tricks. So what I would do, is in full auto half click and get the settings for where I am going to take the picture. Lets say it puts me at ISO 100, F5, and a shutter speed of 1/80. Well shutter speed is what is going to 'Stop' the action of the flipping and twisting of the board. 1/80th of a second is NOT going to do that. You need at least 1/300th or faster.
There are a couple ways you could do this. You could goto Shutter Priority and set the shutter speed at 1/300th or even 1/500th and let the camera determine the other settings for you.
I personally do not like to let the camera make decisions for me, I try to limit the decisions the camera makes. So what I would do, is drop the ISO down to 400 or 800, aperture at 2.8 or larger depending on the lens I have and shutter speed around 1/500th.
Try shutter priority first, and then make it a point to learn how to use these setting and how they affect each other.