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But for what it is worth, when I was shooting a lot of high school soccer, better action shots came from “skating to where the puck is going.” And turning off s

But for what it is worth, when I was shooting a lot of high school soccer, better action shots came from “skating to where the puck is going.” And turning off spray and pray because there’s only one best moment to click the shutter and mechanical sympathy is the best way to get close. I unfortunately don't have a source but I remember hearing about some action photographers trying out 4K60 cameras set to a high shutter speed and basically shooting video clips instead of stills. They would emphasize proper framing, exposure, and focus instead of worrying about timing the shutter. Later the photographer would review the video clips and choose the best frames for publication. For web and newswire distribution 4K resolution was good enough for them, and they indicated that it was very unlikely that the perfect shot would fall outside of each 1/60 second frame.

pixelfarmer 1y ago
Doesn't need video anymore, high end cameras can run wild on taking picture after picture and start doing so before you even fully pressed the shutter, to account for human delays and the ones of the tech itself. I mean we are talking about a part of photography where even back in the days of film a camera would run through a roll of film in seconds for exactly this sort of thing.
- PaulHoule 1y ago
  It amazes me that I can walk out of a game with 2000 images, I just read an article by someone who shot 9000 images of a game. With film it would cost at least $10 to buy and develop film for about 30 shots, so I'd be spending upwards of $600 to develop film. It's hard to be nostalgic for film when you see it that way. (I still shoot images faster than I can process them, but it helps a lot that I got Keysticks working with lightroom so I can sit back and use an XBOX controller to scan through photos.) I am thinking about shooting short video clips instead because I think those might do even better on social and let you tell stories that photos can't.
brudgers 1y ago
Later the photographer would That’s why I prefer one-and-done. Making a photograph always creates future work…future chores. For me, I enjoy the process of making pictures. I don’t enjoy the rest nearly as much. I would rather paint. But I have always made pictures for a hobby. What makes sense when working for money doesn’t drive my process. Meaning and or expression drive what I do. Documentary photography is not so much.
anamax 1y ago
> Later the photographer would review the video clips and choose the best frames for publication. That seems like an ML problem, or rather, a problem with an ML solution.

pixelfarmer 1y ago

Doesn't need video anymore, high end cameras can run wild on taking picture after picture and start doing so before you even fully pressed the shutter, to account for human delays and the ones of the tech itself. I mean we are talking about a part of photography where even back in the days of film a camera would run through a roll of film in seconds for exactly this sort of thing.

PaulHoule 1y ago
It amazes me that I can walk out of a game with 2000 images, I just read an article by someone who shot 9000 images of a game. With film it would cost at least $10 to buy and develop film for about 30 shots, so I'd be spending upwards of $600 to develop film. It's hard to be nostalgic for film when you see it that way. (I still shoot images faster than I can process them, but it helps a lot that I got Keysticks working with lightroom so I can sit back and use an XBOX controller to scan through photos.) I am thinking about shooting short video clips instead because I think those might do even better on social and let you tell stories that photos can't.

brudgers 1y ago

Later the photographer would That’s why I prefer one-and-done. Making a photograph always creates future work…future chores. For me, I enjoy the process of making pictures. I don’t enjoy the rest nearly as much. I would rather paint. But I have always made pictures for a hobby. What makes sense when working for money doesn’t drive my process. Meaning and or expression drive what I do. Documentary photography is not so much.

anamax 1y ago

> Later the photographer would review the video clips and choose the best frames for publication. That seems like an ML problem, or rather, a problem with an ML solution.