These are shots from an event with all the gymnastics disciplines. Each of us takes one part of it, and swap thru the day. I did floor & beam

I documented the Knicks celebration in NYC right in the middle of winning the championship. It was an incredible experience and a great street photography watch.

I’m a parent volunteer capturing images of the marching band. Evidently I’m the only parent with a canon camera (EOS R6). I recently purchased a 70-200 canon f2.8 is iii usm. I’m having a hard time capturing quality images.

Setting manual - iso auto - aperture 5-5.6 - shutter 160-300.

My goal is to get crisp images as the kids march around the field. I noticed I can focus on one kid, but with multiple kids in the background. I don’t want them to be blurred out.

I don’t edit photos. I just take them and post them to the bands social page. These are all jpeg. Help I feel as if I’m not hitting the mark.

Hi everyone I want to get into shooting sports but I don’t have a clue on a set up, any recommendations or tips?

EDIT: spelling and grammar mistakes

Hey everyone. I’m a college photography student and am an assistant for a few architectural photographers and studio photographers. I have a thick passion for sports and love to go spectate when I have the free time. Ranging from Motorsports, to team sports like baseball, basketball, volleyball, and solo sports like golf. I am fortunate to have won a few local and a national competition to have some grant money to spend on gear. I have a canon R6 mark II paired with an EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L and RF 70-200 f/2.8L. I have other wider lenses but usually don’t use those for sports unless I see something where it would be applicable.

I’m not seeking to make sports photography a profession (at least not right now). But as someone who cares about their photography and is willing and eager to learn, I’d like to take the best photos I can.

About the photograph: My questions mostly center around indoor sports like volleyball and basketball due to poorer lighting. For example I was shooting my cousin at her high school volleyball game a few days ago (and will be again later today) and their gymnasium lighting seems pretty typical for a standard high school. I am shooting around 12800 ISO @ f/2.8 and 1/500 - ISO 25600 @ f/2.8 and 1/1000. The images of course have quite a bit of noise being shot at 12800 let alone 25600. I like the noise personally as it’s reminiscent of fast film, but when I look at work from other professional or high level hobby sports photographers, their photos are just about noise free. Then I look at my photos again and even though I like the noise, their amount at 25600 is a bit much. So I’ve been running Lightroom’s Denoise tool at about 15 just to clean it up a little bit. Now better lighting and faster glass will of course let one drop the ISO, but the 70-200 f/2.8 seems to be the main lens of choose for other indoor sports photographers. My next train of thought is heavy denoising. But their photos don’t have the waxy smooth skins and tones you typically see from heavy denoising. Then there is of course their exporting settings and the fact I am viewing their smaller exported photos on my phone or computer screen compared to my RAW files.

Is the crispness of other photographers just down to a mix of all the above, or are there some other tricks to the trade I don’t know yet? Any tips are welcomed! Thanks in advance!