What are the skills of sports photography?

Lead: Photography can shoot static scenery or dynamic scenes, among which sports photography or competitive photography is typical. The main feature is that the subject is moving fast, and the speed, direction and distance are not fixed. It's much more difficult than still photography. In addition, most competitions will be held indoors or at night, and the difficulty can be imagined. It is precisely because of this that the wonderful works of sports photography will often be paid attention to and praised.

I. Sports photographic equipment

Of course, a large-caliber lens is preferred. Increase the ISO as much as possible. Don't forget to bring a flash and take photos in RAW format. Although the tripod is heavy, take it with you.

Second, choose the shooting position and shooting point

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.

When choosing the shooting position, we should consider the following aspects as needed, and give priority to one or two factors:

1. The photos taken from this position should be clear about what the athletes are doing.

2. Get as close as possible to the athletes.

3, this position can try to avoid messy background.

4. Try to choose the position of the light instead of the backlight.

The shooting point is where the athletes are. In sports photography, choosing a reasonable and suitable shooting point plays an important role. A suitable shooting point plays a great role in expressing the theme and grasping the moment of key action.

When choosing a shooting point, look for places where action climaxes often appear, and find places where they can definitely appear.

If you are shooting while running, it is best to capture everyone's instantaneous expression as much as possible as the crowd captures fear.

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.

Third, the camera parameter settings

Indoor and outdoor sports have completely different lighting environments, so you need to judge the lighting conditions you will face first, and then set your camera parameters specifically.

Shutter: Whether indoors or outdoors, at least ensure that the shutter speed is above 1/250 seconds.

Aperture: Under outdoor conditions with good light 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 above 1/500s, it is enough to capture the fastest moment of the athlete; In indoor sports shooting, it is often necessary to use F2.8-F4 aperture with high ISO value to obtain higher shutter speed.

Save format: Sports often use continuous shooting mode, so you need to weigh whether to save RAW or JPEG format, the former will quickly fill the internal cache.

Special introduction: shooting method of horizontal follow-up

The shooting method of lateral following is that the photographer's camera lens follows the moving object and moves in one direction at the same speed as the moving object. When the moving body enters the ideal shooting point and shooting opportunity, gently press the shutter. The camera should always move at the same speed as the moving object while pressing the shutter and after pressing the shutter.

Because the camera moves in the opposite direction to the background with the moving object, there are many flowing lines in the photo. The slower the shutter speed, the more obvious the flowing lines are. The moving object in the photo is basically the same as the moving direction and speed of the camera, so a clear image is formed. The picture of the whole photo gives a strong dynamic effect.

When shooting with lateral following method, we should pay attention to the following problems:

1, the moving speed of the camera must always be consistent with the moving object and moving speed.

2. The camera should follow the moving body on a horizontal line, and can't shake back and forth.

Press the shutter gently, neither too early nor too late. Generally speaking, it is advisable for the moving body to press the shutter between 75 degrees and 85 degrees when following in parallel.

The time to press the shutter should be the climax of the action.

5. The shutter speed depends on the moving speed of the moving object and the shooting effect you want to pursue. Generally, it should be between115 seconds 1/60 seconds, and the fastest time should not exceed1125 seconds.

6. To make full use of the lighting effect of the scene, the photo will be better with side backlight and darker background.