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\"Volleyball<\/a>
One of the last shots I took with Canon. It looks good, but this is after a lot of editing and it is not quite sharp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ever had a blog and then did not write anything for five years? Here is how it happened in my case.<\/p>\n

Kids got bigger, got into volleyball<\/a>, and one day I found myself trying to take pictures of fast moving subjects in badly lit gyms with no flash allowed. Phone cameras are not designed for that, and even a decent digital camera can not handle that situation with a kit lens (I had Canon Rebel T3i at the time.)<\/p>\n

After some research I got a Canon 70d with 85mm f\/1.8 lens and that worked quite well for a while, but then we were getting into high school and I wanted to find something with a little more reach and faster focus.<\/p>\n

Canon did not seem to have anything significantly better in my price range, so I switched to a Nikon D500 (refurbished, of course.) At first I used Nikkor 85mm f\/1.8G lens because I still needed a fast aperture, but that did not give me any additional reach (and I still had to switch lenses to take a team photo…)<\/p>\n

\"Nikon<\/a>
One of my favorite early shots with Nikon D500 and Sigma Art 50-100mm. This looked sharp even when printed on a large poster<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then I found out that Sigma actually designed a lens specifically for indoor volleyball! OK, that is not true but almost… Sigma 50-100mm f\/1.8 Art lens has it all – fast aperture and zoom that covers just the right distances for me. It is quite heavy but I love it. See my instagram account<\/a> for some more volleyball shots I got with it. One of them even got published in a local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once I figured out how to use the camera in difficult settings – and I had to go all manual and all raw to get as much quality as possible – it seemed easy to try other types of photography. I was right in some ways, but I also learned there is much more to learn, so I kept my day job after all. Some of those other photos are available on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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