What are the skills of sports photography?

Lead: The most important thing in sports photography is preparation. If you are not prepared enough, you are likely to miss the wonderful moment. Let's take a look at the skills of sports photography!

Preparation before sports shooting:

1. Learn about the game, take sports photos, and most importantly, know the details of the game you took. Because any moment in the game is fleeting. In order to take powerful photos, we must be able to predict the behavior and manners of athletes. If you don't know the rules, you can't keep up with the rhythm of the game.

2. Need to find inspiration. The most important thing is to find inspiration before stealing the camera. Whether reading magazines, browsing online galleries or looking at the works of other photographers, it will be a very effective way. Of course, seeking inspiration does not mean copying other people's works. Simply put, looking at other works is to understand other people's creativity. Look at the work before shooting, clear your mind and make clear the effect you want to shoot.

Choose the right lens, and pay attention to the sideline when watching the ball game in front of the TV next time, where a lot of photographers are busy. Although you may not be able to afford their cameras? Cannon? But you really need a suitable lens.

The first thing to consider is whether the game is played indoors/at night or outdoors/during the day. If it is the former, then there must be a lens with a maximum aperture of at least f/4. If it is the latter, then ordinary lenses can do it.

For most competitions, a lens of at least 200mm is required. You also need a 35mm or 50mm lens. But if there is only a standard or wide-angle lens, it may be boring to wait for the athletes to come here most of the time.

4. Install a camera. The lighting environment of indoor and outdoor sports is completely different, so it is necessary to judge the lighting conditions to be faced first. Well-lit sports include tennis, baseball, track and field, football and so on. And sports with poor lighting include basketball, table tennis and volleyball.

5. Looking for the best shooting position, the angle determines the composition, and it is naturally easier to capture key images in favorable shooting positions. For example, in this competition, a profile photo formed an interesting reflection.

Start shooting:

1. prediction, as mentioned above, the ability to predict athletes' behavior is needed, and predicting what will happen next is another equally important aspect. Always stare at the camera and pay attention to every move on the field. When you realize that something is going to happen. Crazy? Press the shutter slowly. At this time, the continuous shooting mode of the camera is very advantageous. When a scene is over, don't rush to play back the photos on the camera and continue to pay attention to the scene. Get into the habit of looking at the camera immediately and you will miss some rare opportunities.

2. Control the shutter speed, almost all games are about speed. The athletes run fast, throw fast and hit fast. You need a high-speed shutter to freeze these moments. The ideal shutter speed is above 1/400s, but in dark environment, 1/250s is also acceptable.

In some cases, a slower shutter speed is more interesting. Try 1/30s or115, and then use the subsequent shooting technique. In any case, you should pay attention to the shutter you use. In a fast-paced game, choosing the wrong shutter will ruin your shooting plan.

3. Concentrate as much as possible. In some competitions, you can know in advance where things will happen, but you don't know when. For example, in softball, cricket or volleyball, you know that the key moment will happen at home plate or online. What needs to be done is to pay attention to these positions in advance and then wait.

If you know the exact shooting location, you must ambush in advance. You don't have to follow the athletes, just wait to enter the pre-focus range. Sometimes it is better to use manual focusing or autofocus locking.

4. Shutter and aperture settings, whether indoors or outdoors, should at least ensure that the shutter speed is above 1/250 seconds (except for special effects). Under the outdoor conditions with good lighting environment, using the ISO200 sensitivity of F8-F 1 1 aperture will bring photos with ideal depth of field. If the shutter can be raised to 1/50, it is often necessary to use F2.8-F4 aperture with high ISO value to obtain higher shutter speed in indoor sports shooting.

5. Composition, in sports photography, composition has a direct and obvious effect on dynamic performance. A good composition method can fully show the light and heavy relationship, primary and secondary relationship, perspective relationship and spatial proportion relationship of sports pictures, so as to better reflect the photographer's creative intention, show the fierce competition of sports pictures and show a strong dynamic effect.

6. How to shoot track events? Track events are a part of competitive sports, and track events are not only field events. Therefore, shooting should also focus on track events. Race against time? 、? Fight for the top? Describe a race. Track events are divided into sprint, middle and long distance running, long distance running, relay running and hurdle running. Different races have different shooting points.