EOS Rebel T5 Settings for night baseball games

[jburch921]

Hello I'm new to this forum.  I have been using my Canon EOS T-5 for several years now and have literally taken 1,000's of pictures for travel baseball for years.  Most of these games have been during the day time and I would use the TV mode and for the most part, these pictures came out awesome.

Now my son is playing college ball and most of his games are at night.  I took some pictures using the same mode and some were ok, but just not great.  I have been reading some of the comments on your forum for settings. 

Can someone please give me easy settings to take actions shots? (my son is a pitcher, so fast moving action) on top of stadium lighting. 

Would "AV" be my best option or "P" for an action shot in the dim lighting?

Also what setting should I use for people in the stands in the dark.  Again I'm new to the night time picture taking, so any advice would be very much appreciated. 

[Waddizzle]

Here is a screenshot from the T7 User Guide on entering an ISO value.  Notice that settings are whole stops.

You get similar behavior when you set Tv and Av.  

This really isn't a major issue as long as at least one leg is being set automatically.  By not presenting the user with a plethora of values to enter, the user is presented with only a small handful of values.  Most users never know there is a difference.  For them, this is how a camera works.

It is not even an issue an M mode because you would use the Auto Lighting Optimizer to make a final correction for you.

[wq9nsc]

Thanks for the info Waddizzle.  Although it would be useful to fine tune the shutter speed in 1/3 stop steps to optimize for sport type/behavior and lighting, full shutter speed stops aren't a huge performance penalty.

Probably a choice made by Canon to simplify the user interface for the primary target market for that body.

Rodger

[ebiggs1]

Here is my main reasoning for usually recommending Av mode. The top is, a new photographer. Usually totally new to photography.  Second is, the gear  that beginners have is usually the relatively slow kit lenses.  This means the camera is basically in M anyway because the lens will be wide open all the time. But the advantage of auto SS selection by the camera.

If you fix the SS as in M or Tv you lose that and it forces the lens wide open.

When you teach beginners to use, usually new unfamiliar gear, you need to think about the person you are teaching. Not very often you find a new person using 1 series cameras and big "L" primes lenses. 

IMHO, I see 1/3 stpo adjustment at this point a non-issue. Better to have them learn Raw and post edting from the get go. That's an easy fix there.