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[Nothing2SeeHere]

Any advice for most useful positioning of a camera and what camera angles are most useful when filming yourself batting in the nets?I tried clipping a gopro style camera onto the bowling machine last session and although that was interesting, the machine shakes too much during the delivery to be worth a second attempt.

I assume centrally located but is it best to be zoomed out to show the line of the ball? Or zoomed as close as possible to just capture the batsman?

I notice that the pitchvision folks often set up a camera part way down the lane to help with the zoom. Is this a worthwhile practice?

Only asking as my team could do with another batsman and if I'm going to go for it I'd rather get as much from my training as I can - practice makes permanent, only perfect practice makes perfect.

Cheers

[uknsaunders]

I try to balance it:-

Show the width of the pitch
Show maybe 50% of the track
Minimise the side view of the netting, otherwise you end up cropping it

Here's not a bad example after 20 seconds, bit too much of the legside netting.

https://youtu.be/ai-c4TrAljs

Also add if you can do it at 60fps then it will be more useful on the slow mo, or pausing mid shot.

[smilley792]

If your on a bowling machine make a mount to attach to a set of stumps(or something else) and place it about 12 yards down the pitch.

Unless your bowling really short you shouldn't touch it with machine and if you play a straight enough drive to take it out then Compliment yourself on a great drive.

[Nothing2SeeHere]

Thanks for the advice. I have a zoom camera and a tripod so set it at a similar angle to your example. Had a bit more pitch showing (wanted to make sure I could get the pitch of the ball in). I'm using a bowling machine as I am looking to learn some orthodox looking shots.

Only thing I might change is to increase the frame rate next time. Had it at 60fps which worked but I think increasing that would be better for freezing the video at the point of impact to check balance/alignment/head position etc.