When the home team plays the #2 ranked team in the state.

It's harder to get good shots of your home team when they are skunked.  Loving my D500 anyway.

With my D500 I can shoot in shutter priority and auto-ISO all night long and still get all excellent exposures. I think the anti-flicker tech is a large part of it. Also I accidentally a shot with pattern instead of spot metering and I got away with it just barely.  Spot metering can be problematic when the camera gets pointed at the ceiling lights in baskeball games, but that is not a problem with stadium lights.   ev +3 almost always, sometimes ev+7.   

Tonight I will try 75 point focus, I have also set my camera to focus priority over release priority.  So much to learn about my new camera.

My side camera caught a bunch of blurry shots.  I'm working to try to find out what the problem is.  I think I need to hold it more steady, I've also tweaked the focus settings a little bit.  I was thinking it was a problem with the lens and camera in the dark, but I now think I can make it work with a bit of tweaking.

side line shots ƒ/2.8

 

160.0 mm

1/250

 

6400

ƒ/2.8 

 200.0 mm

1/1000 

 2500 for daylight shots

ƒ/2.8 

 200.0 mm

1/750 

 12800  for darkest field shots 

ƒ/2.8

 

160.0 mm

1/250

 

6400

ƒ/2.8

 

200.0 mm

1/750

 

12800