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Anonymous
im going to help you because I weep for the poor newspaper that was stupid enough to hire you.
don't "think" about upgrading to the 70-300, the 70-300 in and of itself is a piece of shit for sports.
think about grabbing a 70-200 2.8, non-IS. It will run you about a grand, less used. buy used. this is not me being a gear elitist, this is what you physically need to properly shoot sports.
IS is not needed at all for sports and will not help you in the least. It is actually physically impossible for image stabilization to compensate for subject motion. Its meant to compensate for camera motion, which won't be a factor anyways because any shutter speed that will stop subject motion will easily stop camera motion. get it?
The Canon XT is a piece of shit for sports. I shot sports with an xt when it was first out, trust me on this.
Grab a used 20D, at the least. A 40D is the most you could ever realistically need. The 1Ds are nice, but if you're just doing part time shit you don't need one.
If you're doing basketball look at a 580ex. You need one. You absolutely need one. Shoot M at 2.8/250/iso1600, leave flash on ttl. You can bring it down all the way to 400 but only if the lighting is great. Normal gym lighting needs 1600.
But thats just gear. That's the least of your problems.
Don't just randomly fire away. Get faces, get the ball, and get it all in frame. Make sure you're focused dead on before taking the shot. Your keeper rate will be shit when you first start out - like 50 out of 400. This helps that. Shoot vertical 75% of the time. Get under the net. Don't shoot them running towards you, the af system can't keep up. Get them when they're stopped, shooting, or running sideways towards the net. Get the crowd, cheerleaders, that stuff too. Good luck
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