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how do you take photos for for inside winter sports/hockey? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Dpler77@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I will be taking some hockey/wrestling photos again this winter but I will not be using auto settings all of the time this year.

For hockey, do you think I should be up at the top of the stands or rink side? I’m relatively new to sports photography (almost 1 1/2 years) so any feedback is appreciated.

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[–] taspleb@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I shoot outdoor sports but in terms of manual settings my process is:

Set shutter speed to something that will freeze fastest action (for me 1/1000), set aperture to something that will have a decent DOF and image quality (f/8), then set iso to auto.

If the light gets bad I'll reduce the aperture first and then the shutter speed but I leave the iso on auto because if it goes too high with my minimum settings I wouldn't have got a workable photo anyway.