Photo Tutorial: Sports Photography
By Emily Price
It’s that time of year again when the kids start playing soccer, or the family heads out to watch the local baseball team show their stuff. If you plan on taking your digital camera out to some sporting events this summer, here are some tips on taking fabulous sport pictures.
Use a fast shutter speed
When taking pictures of sporting events, the faster your shutter speed typically the better. Sporting events tend to move fast; very fast on occasion-using a faster shutter speed will keep your pictures from becoming blurry and out of focus and help ensure you catch the shot you want.
Use the continuous mode
Along those same lines, try using the continuous mode on your camera while shooting pictures during game play. The continuous mode will typically take six or more pictures at a time rather than just one. The idea is that if you take a slew of pictures at once, then one of those pictures is more likely to be the particular moment you were hoping to capture when you pressed the shutter button in the first place.
Shoot wide
As I’ve said before, sporting events tend to move very quickly. If you’ve zoomed in on something such as a foot kicking a ball, or the basket in a basketball game, you’re likely to not only miss that shot, but also miss out on everything that’s going on around it as well. Try shooting pictures at a high resolution and a little wider that you might otherwise. Once you get home you can crop out the portion of the picture you were particularly interested in, but since you shot the photo wider you’ll have much more to choose from.
Come prepared
Make sure you’re using a large memory card, and you’ve deleted the pictures off the memory card from your last shoot before you get to the game. You’ll want to make sure you have plenty of space to save pictures so you don’t have to delete them while you’re at the game. If you have an extra set of batteries for your camera, make sure those are charged and bring them along as well. It’s always better to be safe than sorry!
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April 13th, 2009
Thanks for the tips. I’m just starting our learning the technical aspects of photography (joined a club recently). Always enjoyed photography but it’s now good to learn what I’m doing when taking a picture
April 14th, 2009
The tips are appreciated, but do you have any that stops me from feeling under scrutiny whenever I carry a camera near children, it doesn’t matter much where you go, there are always children nearby,
For most photography enthusiasts action sports events are very interesting and challenging but, read on and you’ll see what I’m getting at,
a few weeks ago I wanted a street scene, I had to walk past a kindergarten, I found myself feeling quite awkward and self conscious as I had the camera out ready to take a few shots of an intersection.
Children are most times where I want to take a few shots of a lake or an interesting scenic area, it’s got to the point that I don’t go out to do any photography during school holidays, I like to get these for my oil painting inspirations, but this makes me feel like I’m being watched by the paranoid looney people,
I know myself I have nothing to be guilty about, but I can’t help but get this feeling that people may be questioning to themselves my motives, and it should not be like this, in fact I’ll go as far as saying if I heard a child screaming I would be hesitant to get involved, and what I mean by this is mistaken identity, unless there was nobody else nearby to investigate, people are so quick to jump to conclusions these days.
My own daughter is well grown up and married, but as I understand the so called rules today I would not have been allowed to take photos of her in those years as she competed in sporting events, all I’ll say is at that period of our lives nobody would have stopped me taking photos of my own daughter,
these are the ones you look back on many years later, this world is totally paranoid crazy.
Dave .T
April 20th, 2009
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