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Were you pre-focusing on an area or are these done with focus tracking? By some chance, do you have your shutter/aperture settings?



James thanks - we're not that consistent in approach, depends on the event and the light. Flyball shots are usually pre-focussed at the jump, mostly use a tripod - Paul often uses the auto Sports setting on the Nikon D50, the crossover shot was ISO 200 1000th at 4.2. But with lurecoursing you need to track as their moves aren't predictable, still mostly with the tripod/swivel-head. The shots of the rotti are ISO 400, 800th @ 5.6. Those 3 are Paul's shots - I use the Nikon D70 and prefer shutter speed 1000 but lose some under-exposed that way. Circular problem: with enough DoF to keep the dog's full length in focus, it sacrifices shutter speed so there is motion blur. Tracking is a problem with flyball except for head-on as the speed is just too fast to track and catch the action over a jump. With the box and crossover, pre-focus on the box or start gates gives the best result.

Here is a turn at the box: D70, iso200, 800 @ 4.5 hand-held and serve my right no excuse. The dog is a labrador-poodle cross.

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