Different genres of photography have their own specifics. Landscapes are best done at dawn or dusk, when the sun sinks lower and its rays seem to slide along the surface of the earth. For portraits, it is important to choose soft key lighting. Taking pictures of fast-paced sports events involves very fast shutter speeds.
It is necessary
- Camera
- Optics line
- Light meter
- Tripod
Instructions
Step 1
Choose wide-angle lenses when you want to take a long shot. Very often, such pictures are the most spectacular and compositional. But to work with such a lens, you need to find the shooting point that is as close as possible to the athletes. Unfortunately, this is not always possible.
Step 2
Opt for long lenses or even telephoto lenses when it comes to shooting individual competitions. Such lenses are especially important when you need to photograph diving or, for example, from a springboard. It is more expedient to work with long-focus lenses from a tripod, otherwise blurring of the frame may occur. In the language of professional photographers, it is called "shake".
Step 3
Take pictures of sports in different modes, only then you can get pictures that will meet all the criteria. Aperture priority is important for taking good photos of team matches. The higher the aperture number, the deeper the depth of field, and accordingly, the more “genre” the picture will be. But more often in sports photography, shutter priority is used. By setting such values as 1/250 and 1/500 sec, be sure to have time to capture the most important and crucial moment of the competition.
Step 4
Vary the aperture of the lens and so that in the future photograph the background remains, as it were, blurred. If the performances of athletes take place on a clear sunny day outside, and the time on the clock is close to noon, without the maximum aperture open, you can get too contrasting unprocessed images with overexposed or too shaded areas. Neither will there be the necessary elaboration of details to distinguish a good shot from a bad one. Of course, in this case the shutter speed should be minimal, most likely above 1/500 sec. Only then will your sports photography turn out exactly as it was intended.
