Shoot a table tennis match.

Sports shooting requires high equipment, and amateurs should make good use of the machines in their hands. In view of the upcoming China Table Tennis Open, I will provide you with some information about shooting table tennis matches, hoping to help you.

Table tennis match shooting equipment

1, fuselage: Try to choose a fuselage with fast speed, strong focusing ability and good noise control in continuous shooting (do we have so many fuselage choices? ), such as: Canon's 7D, 1D Mark IV, 60D, Nikon's D3S, D700, D300S, D7000, Pentax K-5 and so on.

2. Lens:

Fixed focus has the advantage of fixed focus, and zoom is convenient; Try to choose a lens with large aperture and anti-shake function (large aperture above F2.8).

Characteristics of table tennis shooting competition

Whenever possible, shoot at 1/500 seconds or faster.

Newspapers, magazines and websites all want to get clear photos, that is, freeze-frame photos.

How about using a slower shutter speed to emphasize movement? This is a good way to take art photos, but it is not suitable for taking pictures of magazines. The reason is that if you aim at the expression of action, you reduce the importance of the subject? Athletes, movements and the game itself.

News is about people and things? As we said before, who, what, when, where and how it happened has nothing to do with the photographer's artistic level, so the speed at which the action can be stopped is used for the photos to be released. 1/500 seconds or faster? To shoot.

Use high sensitivity.

It is necessary to use high sensitivity to shoot table tennis matches, which is related to the use of high shutter confidentiality. When shooting with the shutter speed of 1/500 seconds or faster, very high sensitivity is needed to ensure good exposure of photos. Thanks to modern technology, we can shoot with ISO 1000, ISO 1600, ISO3200 or even faster shutter speed.

If you want to take a clear picture, you have no reason to use a sensitivity lower than ISO400.

Show the ball

You should try to show the ball in the picture. For table tennis, if we see an athlete swing, then we also want to see what he wants to play.

Let the action fill the picture.

People want to see close-ups of the action. We know what gymnasiums and sports fields are like, and we don't need to look at their photos. We want to see the photos of athletes in fierce battles, so you should enlarge and emphasize the athletes.

Close-up action.

Playing table tennis is an exciting activity. Like fishing, always regret it? The one who ran away from home? . Too many photographers waste time and opportunities to take pictures that are far away from themselves, and as a result, they take many pictures with small action range and long distance.

You should concentrate on taking photos that you can see clearly and are close to your position. Therefore, you should choose your position carefully. If you can walk back and forth, you should predict where the next move may take place, and if possible, get close to this place.

Shoot the action in your direction.

When you are filming a table tennis match, you should pay attention to preparing to shoot the scene facing you. Readers and editors are interested in the front of athletes, not their back.

Familiar with the rules of the game.

If you are familiar with the rules of the game, you can choose your position more wisely and predict your actions. This will give you a better chance to take first-class photos. If you don't know the rules of table tennis, do your homework? For example, when you shoot a table tennis match for the first time, you must look at some wonderful photos of the table tennis match, study the angle and style of the photos, and learn the rules and standing strategies of the game, so as to predict the action.

Matters needing attention in shooting table tennis match

1, camera settings: it is recommended to use the shutter first. Because table tennis is fast, set the shutter as soon as possible; Shutters below 1/640 are difficult to shoot a clear ball successfully, except, of course, the artistic effect of creating a combination of reality and reality; Within the acceptable range, the ISO should be as high as possible, or try to use automatic ISO (set a certain range); It is recommended to open the aperture from half to first gear. Continuous shooting mode is used to track the focus mode; Most of the stadiums are mixed light sources, and the color temperature is difficult to grasp. Automatic white balance is a compromise choice.

2. Shooting format: JPG format. Many people like shooting in RAW format, but the amount of data shot is large, which affects the writing speed. Often continuous shooting can't take a few photos, and the cache is covered.