Can anyone offer any tips, pointers or advice on improving my sports action photography?
I started doing sports photography for the first time yesterday. I’m usually a landscape and architecture photographer, shooting things that generally don’t move a lot, so this was a real challenge to me.
The photos I took can be found here…
Can anyone offer me any constructive criticism or advice on things I could have done differently or better, so I can improve next week?
Thanks.
These are good for working with a point and shoot. I notice you were using aperture priority, try using shutter priority, also I notice you were using an iso of 100, for sports you want to use an iso that is a bit faster. I would start at iso 400. and set the camera on shutter priority and start at 1/250. For sports you really need an slr and a telephoto lens. You can get so much closer with a telephoto lens-This was taken from midway up in the stands.
I think they’re pretty good, maybe try some different angles. Get on the ground…take pics from an inanimate object point of view.
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I think you did a fine job! I would like to see less details in the background…how about using the lens on a more telephoto than wide?
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Overall I think they’re good but some of them have too much depth of field, you have players in the background who are too sharp when they’re not the subject of the photo.
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These are good for working with a point and shoot. I notice you were using aperture priority, try using shutter priority, also I notice you were using an iso of 100, for sports you want to use an iso that is a bit faster. I would start at iso 400. and set the camera on shutter priority and start at 1/250. For sports you really need an slr and a telephoto lens. You can get so much closer with a telephoto lens-This was taken from midway up in the stands.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21125021@N05/2813103497/
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I think they are great. Given the focal length they were shot at, you must have been on the field!
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