Express Action Sports

If i go to the Dodgers Stadium at a night game with a Canon T2i body and a Sigma 50-200mm f/4.0-5.6 lens, would i be able to get good pictures under the bad stadium lights.
What would be the best settings for taking a picture of the player standing around?

What would be the best settings for a player in action?

Thanks. If you have a flickr with pictures of your sports photography, leave the link and ill check them out if you’d like.

Under stadium lights at night your going to have a lot of trouble taking action shots.

With that f-number you are really constricted to daylight action shots. It is still possible none the less, but the ISO is going to be so high your going to see a lot of noise in the images.

Best settings is setting the aperture as low as possible and then boost the ISO till you get at least 1/250 of a shutter speed but around 1/1000 would be ideal.

I recommend you stick to daytime action shots though.

I am looking to begin taking high quality sports action shots for my school. I would like to know what camera would be ideal for this, as well as what sort of lens. Prices would also be insanely helpful. I’d like to keep the pricing within reason, as it is a starting project.

A Nikon D3100 w/ a 55-200 or a Rebel T3 w/ a 55-250 would be a good start. There is no such thing as a camera that will guarantee you great pictures. Along with the camera, pick up a few basic photography books from your local library.