Express Action Sports

This question is not about routine things like travel arrangements, stay, flights, etc. which, if they go wrong, can surely affect your vacation and travel plans. This is also not about the feelings of goodness, greatness, thrill, etc.

This question is about the kind of specific vacation experience you eagerly want to have while on your trip, and its memories you want to carry back home. Things like seeing historically significant places, massage, Action Sports, sun bathing, and the like.

1. The food. I like to eat where the locals do, and shop in the local grocery stores for new things to try.

2. The architecture. I want to know about the buildings. How old they are, are they still used for their original purpose, did someone famous design them, or live there…..

3. The people. I would rather spend a week in one place getting to know the people around me than seven days in seven different countries.

I am starting off in the world of sports photography and am looking at how to improve my technique? Any Ideas?

to get (im going to use the term) magazine quality images, you have to have a few items.
1) zoom lens with a big aperature; ie: F2.8, F1.8 and at least a 200mm if not 300mm or 400mm. tele-zoom combo lens are great. but its still hard to beat the image quality of a prime lens.

2) you must have a camera capable of AI Servo mode. which is the camara’s ability to hold focus of an object while it moves foward/backward/sideways/any which way while the object is in it focus screen.

3) you got to have a lot of film or a lot of memory cards. sports photography is very much a mash the button and hope scenerio. the better you get you will of course learn to recognize when to shoot and when not to. but that will take you down from maybe 600 images of an event to 250.

i said these 3 things you need because you are probably frustrated with your present efforts because the images are blurred and seriously OOF and or in focus but the DOF is so huge you are looking at a scene of everything with no COI.

now to technique.
1) shoot low as you can to the action. usually on your knee is best.
2) use whatever ISO you need to get to a speed of no slower than 1/250. any slower and you will have the beginnings of a blurred image.
3) focus on waist as the center of your focus screen. its easier to track movement looking at the waist.
4) learn the sport. if you dont know it then learn what the players are doing. that way you will know when something important is going to happen and be ready for it.
5) get as close to the action as you can. within reason of course. thats why you still have that big zoom lens strapped up.
6) shoot vertically and landscape.
7) look for the shoots that are happening away from the "action". everyone has a story out there dont miss it because you are stuck following a ball around.

thats the basics. good luck

I really need 3 things about extreme sports. it is about "Extreme Sports are risky but worth it" And I need to defend why i chose it. PLEASE HELP!

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