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Volunteered at the rock n rock marathon in San Diego this morning and managed to get in some shooting before the main wave rolled in. I have a LOT to learn with action photography!!! Focusing properly is a major challenge as ridicules as that sounds: the distances are constantly changing, and your options are to either manually focus - close to impossible to get right on a consistent basis - or go with the SLR's continuous focus function. The Nikon D200's is supposed to be above average with that, but who knows what that means. You also pretty much have to keep the subject centered for that to work (when it does work) so you can't do any artistic composing, unless you select a different focus grid location, which maybe I should have done. Another problem is that a good scene may only last for a millisecond and if you hesitate, you missed it.
Most shots were taken at ISO 320, f-8.0, with a shutter speed of about 1/600 sec, at 135 mm focal length. Most were significantly sharpened to get them to what you see.
Any comments and suggestions would definitely be considered -
Gb
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