Skiing Photography Tips

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I'm off Skiing this Friday, taking with me:

Canon 550D
Tamron 17-55 f2.8
Canon 50mm 1.8

Does anyone have any tips for taking action shots? I don't tend to use f2.8 because unless it's bright sunshine the lens fails to autofocus properly. More specifically, what settings should I have switched on for Point-and-shoot mode?

Cheers
 
Excellent, cheers guys as I've said before on here I'm fairly new to photography.

When you say 2/3 of a stop on the camera exposure compensation it has something like this:

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4

I take it they are referring to the 'stops' each one has several dots in between so at the moment I have set it to roughly 2/3 of the way between 0 and +1. I'm using AV mode at f4.0 and ISO400. It is setting the exposure (today in cloudy poor light) to about 1/40. What sort of exposure do I want to be aiming for? I appreciate in bright snowy conditions it will be significantly faster than this.

Last question: I'm assuming for portrait shots I am safe to use ISO 100 and a longer exposure. I'll probably just use auto mode for this as the camera gets passed around etc.

Thank you very much for the advice.
 
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