Understand the game

The most important thing of sports photography is to know the details of the game that you photograph. Because any time in the process of the game is fleeting.

In order to photograph effective photos, you must be able to predict the athletes' performance and behavior ability.

2. Choose the right lens What needs your first consideration is whether the game is in the indoor or outdoor or in the day or at night. If it is the former, then you must have a lens with the maximum aperture at least f / 4, if it's the latter, then the general lens is available.

For most of the games, you will need a lens at least 200 mm. You also need 35 mm or 50 mm lens at the same time.

3. Control the shutter speed

You need to use high speed shutter to frame every moment of the game. The ideal shutter speed is above 1/400 s, but 1/250 s is also available in the dark environment.

In some cases, the slower shutter speed is more interesting. Anyway, you should always pay attention to your own shutter. The choice of a wrong shutter will destroy your photographing plan in the fast-paced game.

4. Prefocus as far as possible

In some game, what you need to do is to focus these locations in advance and then wait for the critical moment. Don't follow the athletes, you should only need to wait for them into your prefoucs range.

5. Prediction You need to have the ability to predict the behavior of the athletes, your eyes need to be kept on the camera and pay attention to every move in the field. When you realize that there is something happen, then press the shutter "crazily". When a scene is finished, don't try so hard to playback the photos on the camera and continue to focus on the field. The habit of seeing the camera immediately will let you miss some rare opportunities.

6. The critical moment

The critical moment is the moment that can perform the conflict and sport. The defenders' action and sprinters' glance at the rivals on the left are all the scene that the photographers yearn for something day and night. Sometimes they will tell about the game or the background of the season, the athletes' career and so on, but only the fleeting moment of heated confrontation is their eternal pursuit.

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