Photographing Cricket – DPS Community Workshop

In this post I’m going to ask you to help a DPS reader improve their photography.

I’m Looking forward to your answers!

One of the reasons I started Digital Photography School was because I wanted to see what would happen when digital photographers of all levels of expertise came together to share what they know and learn together.

For this reason – today I’d like to try a new type of post here on the DPS blog – a DPS Community Workshop.

In this post I’m going to share a real life photography question from a reader and then open it up to you the wider DPS community to share your tips and suggestions for the reader.

Here’s this week’s question:

“I’ve been asked to photograph my Son’s cricket team’s first match in a few weeks and I was wondering if you had any tips for me? What size lens will I need? What settings should I use? Any other tips?” – submitted by Sean T.

(note: for those of you from non Cricket playing countries – it’s an Summer sport, played outdoors on a large field. It has some similarities to Baseball in that there is a team that fields and a team that bats).

So what advice would you give Sean? What gear would you recommend? What settings and techniques would you recommend he experiments with?

I’m looking forward to seeing your responses.

PS: if you have a question that you’d like us to workshop as a community please get in touch via our contact form with your question. If you’d like us to workshop a particular image please include a link to it in your Flickr/Zoomr/photosharing account.