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Essential Tips for Capturing Dynamic Sports Photography

Discover key techniques for dynamic sports photography that emphasize struggle and conflict. Learn where to shoot from, including the importance of getting faces and capturing the play from various angles. Take advantage of lighting by positioning yourself with the sun on your side to illuminate subjects effectively. Focus on clean backgrounds, tight shots, and including the ball for context. Understand panning techniques and shutter speeds to convey motion while avoiding awkward compositions. Elevate your sports photography with these essential tips!

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Essential Tips for Capturing Dynamic Sports Photography

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  1. !!SPOOORTS!! Are these photos any good?

  2. What about these?

  3. Sports is about STRUGGLE and CONFLICT

  4. Where to shoot from • Shooting from the end of the field: • Always get faces • Capture the play no matter where it comes from • Longer distance to background = better bokeh • Not all fun and roses! • Cannot follow along with action • Less useful with short focal lengths

  5. Where to shoot from • Shooting from the end of the field: • Always get faces • Capture the play no matter where it comes from • Longer distance to background = better bokeh • Not all fun and roses! • Cannot follow along with action • Less useful with short focal lengths

  6. Sun! Hard to see dark stuff Human vision is naturally drawn to brightest stuff Ideally, shoot with the sun on "your side" with respect to the player, so subjects are directly illuminated Bad AWESOME

  7. http://shuttersounds.thedailynathan.com/2008/09/27/football-photography-xs-and-os-part-3-lighting-situations/http://shuttersounds.thedailynathan.com/2008/09/27/football-photography-xs-and-os-part-3-lighting-situations/

  8. Vantage Point Like most photos, avoid standing-level vantage point! Usually, get lower (getting higher isn't physically possible usually)

  9. Clean Backgrounds

  10. Clean Backgrounds

  11. Clean Backgrounds

  12. Clean Backgrounds

  13. Clean Backgrounds

  14. General Sports Photography Tips • Shoot tight, crop tighter • Many sports photos are too wide. The viewer cares about the athlete, not the area around him/her. Bad Good

  15. General Sports Photography Tips • Be sure to include the ball • The photo is much less interesting if people are running around without any context Bad Better

  16. General Sports Photography Tips • Have the subject facing into the scene • The image is compositionally better if the subject is not looking out of the frame. Bad Good

  17. General Sports Photography Tips • Don’t cut off arms/legs • It’s just awkward Good Bad

  18. Panning A useful technique that can be used to convey motion within a scene. Shutter speed is critical for the effect. Slow shutter speed (1/50) Subject is blurred Fast shutter speed (1/1000) Subject is frozen

  19. Slower shutter speed + moving the camera with the subject = panning effect. Shutter speeds around 1/60 to 1/250 are common, depending on the subject and its speed. Take bursts of photos, since the subject will often be blurred. Panning usually results in a lower “keeper rate” than just freezing the subject. Some cameras have different image stabilization modes. Depending on the camera/lens model, one of the modes may be intended for panning. This stabilizes up/down camera movement, but not side-side.

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