Sports photography skills What are the sports photography skills?

1, Tip 1: Choose the right shooting position: For sports photographers, the shooting position is very important. A favorable shooting position and wonderful photos are often closely linked, which directly affects the quality and effect of photos. We should give full consideration to the lighting effect and background of the shooting scene to set off the theme. When choosing a shooting position, look for places where action climax often occurs and places where it can definitely appear. For example, the shooting point of basketball, under the backboard, the shooting point of football, in the restricted area, above the hurdle, etc. Are the best points to show the characteristics of the project and the climax of the sport.

2. Tip 2: Choice of body and lens: Sports photography may be the most difficult and unpredictable subject in the field of photography. Canon is the main camera brand with the highest exposure rate of photographic equipment in the sports field, because it has a complete ultra-telephoto lens group and a digital SLR body with superior speed, which is almost the only choice in sports photography, and there are crowds of white gun scenes. The selected machine is not only high in pixels, but also has the functions of precise focusing and high-speed continuous shooting. Commonly used cameras include canon EOS- 1D X, 1D Mark IV, 5D Mark III, etc.

3. A good camera naturally needs to be matched with a good lens in order to exert its maximum combat effectiveness. In view of the particularity of sports photography, sports photographers often have to complete all the shots from super wide angle to super telephoto in order to cope with the ever-changing competition situation on the field. Big three yuan is necessary for professional sports photographers, and 70-200mm may be more suitable for ordinary photographers; As for the super telephoto world, various monster-level fixed-focus lenses are often used. Because sports photography requires fast focusing speed, accurate and sharp focusing, zoom lens is often difficult to do.

4. Tip 3: Choose a monopod: Because of the heavy weight of sports photography equipment, photographers should be flexible and stable when shooting. Monopod is almost a must-have item for sports photographers. At present, carbon fiber materials are popular, which are light, durable and expensive. If you don't want to invest too much on a tripod, an alloy tripod is also a good choice.

5. Tip 4: Choose the correct shooting mode-shutter priority mode: For sports photography, shutter speed is the most important, so shooting in shutter priority mode is a good start. In the case of poor lighting conditions, first set the sensitivity to the maximum acceptable image quality, and set the shutter to high speed, and the camera will automatically adjust the aperture according to the exposure, so that the image will be clear anyway. Shutter priority mode can also use slow shutter to shoot special effects, which is an advantage that other modes do not have. Shooting with a high-speed shutter is inevitably a bit monotonous. It is better to shoot a dynamic picture with a slow shutter. More suitable for shooting with slow shutter are sprinting, cycling, racing and so on. Ball games with physical contact are not suitable for this skill because of their variable speed. There are two ways to use slow shutter in sports photography: one is to fix the camera and shoot the trajectory of moving objects; Second, the camera moves with the subject, making the subject clear and the background blurred. It should be noted that successful slow shutter photography must have a very clear part, and the whole picture must not be blurred.

6. Tip 5: Use the auto-sensitivity function: With the auto-sensitivity Auto ISO function, you can automatically select the most appropriate sensitivity and get the best picture quality under the condition of customizing the most appropriate aperture and shutter. This subtle difference may affect the imaging quality at a critical moment.

7. Tip 6: Choose the correct focusing method: You must use the artificial intelligence servo focusing method to shoot moving objects. When shooting, you must concentrate, follow the subject at any time, and press the shutter half-way to keep in focus. When the incident happens, continuous shooting will capture the whole incident to ensure the highest success rate. Take Canon EOS- 1D X as an example, its core advantage lies in providing us with a top-level focusing experience, which is not only reflected in the nearly crazy 6 1 focusing points, but more importantly, the intelligent subject recognition system with 1 pixel and 1 DIGIC 4 processors is additionally integrated inside the machine.

8. Tip 7: Prediction: Another important skill of sports photographers is to predict the upcoming scene, grasp a certain amount of advance, and press the shutter at the moment before the wonderful moment, which is also said by Master Bresson. "decisive moment." This is also necessary for photographers in other fields. Sports photography needs a certain degree of pre-judgment time, which is so short that it can hardly be measured by numerical value, but grasping the action moment is the key. The more familiar you are with the motion you are shooting, the more you can predict the occurrence of moments such as actions and improve the probability of accurately shooting the desired picture.