Volleyball has *got* to be the hardest sport to photograph.
When you consider that most points are scored in something like seven to eight seconds, that there's six players confined to an area about one-third the side of a basketball court, and that from just about any angle you're either shooting at the players' backs or shooting through the opponents to get to the players' faces, its a wonder that I get anything at all.
And don't get me started about focusing. Center-point auto-focus and focus lock, or manual focus on a generic distance and hope for the best? Neither one works very well.
And then we have the lighting in the Vashon High School gym, which is (let me be charitable, here) horrible.
So basically it's shooting at ISO 1600, manual at 200th, f5.6, and hope I can pull up some kind of an image with exposure compensation during post-processing.
And then after something's light enough to see what I got, maybe it'll be in focus.
