Slow motion is a luxury — until it becomes your whole visual language. Here is how we plan for it.
Cricket is a game of milliseconds. The edge, the reaction, the foot barely off the ground — at 25 frames a second these moments are suggested. At 120 they are undeniable. But slow motion rewards planning and punishes instinct. Everything about a frame — shutter, light, focus, framing — gets harder the moment you slow the clock down.
Do the maths before you shoot
At 120fps you are gathering 120 exposures for every second of action. That means a shutter speed around 1/240s or faster, which means you need light — and a lot of it. We check the sun position for the whole day before locking a slow-mo camera position, and we treat every 120fps frame as a shot in its own right. If the light dies, the shot dies.
"The best slow-motion shots are found before the match starts, not during it.
Plan your shots the way a batter plans an innings. Pick two or three windows — the first delivery of an over, the run-up to a quick, the celebration arc — and wait for them. A camera parked on "everything" is a camera that captures nothing.