<p>I had an assignment to shoot a High School meet for the local weekly paper Saturday. My prime camera is a d300, and I did this with an 18-200 vr. I also had a d200 with an 85 1.8.<br>
I agree with the idea of finding your spot and staying there. Trying to run around the mat just adds to the confusion. The wrestlers are constantly moving yet many of the shots will not require high speed, as they tend to hold position for a couple seconds. I found the 85 too long for most of what I wanted as I sat on the floor at the edge of the mat. I did run two storbes on sb800 on camera and one sb 800 on a gorilla pod close to the floor. The remote didn't work for every shot as I gave it a general direction and set it to widest zoom possible. To be honest I'm not in love with available in gyms when I can use flash.<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3205336477_037d4b6bd9.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></p>
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<p>I had an assignment to shoot a High School meet for the local weekly paper Saturday. My prime camera is a d300, and I did this with an 18-200 vr. I also had a d200 with an 85 1.8.<br>
I agree with the idea of finding your spot and staying there. Trying to run around the mat just adds to the confusion. The wrestlers are constantly moving yet many of the shots will not require high speed, as they tend to hold position for a couple seconds. I found the 85 too long for most of what I wanted as I sat on the floor at the edge of the mat. I did run two storbes on sb800 on camera and one sb 800 on a gorilla pod close to the floor. The remote didn't work for every shot as I gave it a general direction and set it to widest zoom possible. To be honest I'm not in love with available in gyms when I can use flash.<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3205336477_037d4b6bd9.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></p>