In my ventures photographing rugby I found it very helpful to keep both eyes open, that way you can do a better job anticipating when you're going to start taking the picture. I get so many fewer decent pictures when I'm watching the game through the camera because the lag time between the button press and the actual taking of the picture can be quite problematic,especially if you aren't used to it(and sometimes even if you are). The best thing you can do to practice this is take lots of picture, even of the mundane(think about that intense strike 3 call
), it doesn't matter with a digital because you can delete them later, and all that practice will pay off when the shot you
have to get(of the hubby sliding into home for the game winner) comes along. On that same note, take TONS of pictures, with a digital it doesn't cost you any more to take 100 pictures an inning and delete the 90 that didn't turn out the way you wanted than it does to take 10 per inning, and risk half of them being undesirable.