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Brown132

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Hi everyone and sorry if this has been posted a million times before. I have an opportunity to spend a weekend photographing some muddy bicycle racing in Belgium for work so I have borrowed my son's D90 with a Tamiron 18-200mm lens. I am getting to grips with settings and have pretty much decided on shutter priority with iso 200-250 and shutter speed around 1/500. Although to many outside factors to list that can affect settings does this sound a good starting point and would anyone suggest a lens hood and monopod.all advice greatly welcomed as I have 5 days until I go.

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if shooting action photography you want stop action photo need to have shutter speed around 1/1000 to 1/2000 or so base on how bright or dark it is. i start off with 1/1000 and work my way up base on light and how fast things are moving. so that best way to go. also only one once i awhile you have to see some else will give tips i own Z6 and D7200 with two DX lenses and 6 full frame lenses too. 



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Some folks use shutter priority and let the aperture change with the light.  Others shoot the opposite way (which is OK if you know your shutter speed will be fast enough).  One- one thousandth of a second (1/1000) is as slow as I would consider and if you can get faster I would.  You may not need faster than 1/1000 but it won't hurt if you are trying to stop the action.  As far as the rest of it goes, I'd set your ISO on at least 400 to be sure you can get to 1/1000 with the available aperture.  I don't know the lens or the terrain you be shooting on, but a monopod is nice with a longer lens and will probably save some stress on your arms.  I doubt I would use a monopod if the lens didn't have a collar and my guess is that lens doesn't.  As far as the lens hood goes, I don't shoot without them.  Hope that helps and looking forward to seeing some of the images once you've shot the event!