Sports+photography

__Sports Photography __


 * Sports photography is one of the trickiest types of photography. Mostly because of the intense action that is trying to be captured through one frame.


 * The moment happens and it is gone. You either capture it in an image or you don't.


 * Unlike sports writers and television, still photographers don't have the luxury of instant replay.


 * There are many tips and tricks pro's use to capture great shots.


 * Picking the best and most interesting view points and shooting familiar things in an unfamiliar way is probably the most challenging aspect of sports photography.


 * There are generally four categories of lenses: Everyday lenses, landscape lenses, action lenses, and creative lenses.

__Lenses __ Everyday lenses - Standard for shooting anything for a wedding to a birthday. (Very versatile to capture clear and impressive shots and not having to switch to many other lenses) Ex.) EF-S 17 - 85 mm, EF-S 18 - 200 mm, EF 24 - 105 mm

Landscape lenses - Allow you to capture more information without having to step back. (give greater width to capture more with) Ex.) EF - 14mm, EF-S 10-22mm

Action lenses - Best suitable for taking photos a a greater distance. Like in a stadium or at the beach; where the action is happening further away.(Allows you to capture great detail even at really far distances. Ex.) Ef - 70 -200mm, EF 70 - 300mm, EF-S - 55 - 250mm

Creative lenses - Give different perspectives to the way we see the world through our on eyes. Ex.) Fish eye - Gives a 180 degree view and a unique view of perspective. Ex.) Tilt Shift - Great for altering the perspective Ex.) Macro - Allows you to take great photos of really close up pictures.


 * Shutter speeds
 * 1) Faster shutter speeds will allow you to capture faster moving objects.
 * 2) For shooting a moving athlete a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second will be enough to freeze the action and prevent blurriness.

The difference shutter speeds make. You can see the setting the shutter speed is set to on the bottom right corner and the effect it has on the photograph.

Notice that the faster the shutter speed is the clearer we can see the water droplets.

=**Pro in Sports Photography**= media type="youtube" key="2tJ08oi403Y" width="425" height="350"

34 secs - shooting action 57 secs - dealing with light 2:19 min - backgrounds 2:45 min - panning 3:58 min - non-action sports 4:44 min - making it great =**Notes from presentation**= __Tips and tricks __


 * 1) Familiarize yourself with that particular sport
 * 2) You will know when something interesting is about to occur and it'll allow you to be more prepared for that shot.
 * 3) Pictures in light
 * 4) Generally if you can take photos in early morning or late afternoon the picture quality will be much better.
 * 5) If you have to shoot in the mid day sun, you will get pockets under people's eyes, you can try to shoot a backlight.
 * 6) Backlight gives a nice even light over your subject and gives you a rim of light in the background.
 * 7) What is a backlight - []
 * 8) Background
 * 9) Backgrounds are super important. A lousy background is what separates a great picture from a picture that could have been great.
 * 10) A background can really distract the viewers attention to what is happening in the foreground.
 * 11) If you are shooting somewhere that has an ugly background or just something you don't want to incorporate on the shot you can use panning to blur out the background or a special type of lens.
 * 12) Panning (super important in action sports)
 * 13) Is shooting a slower shot of speed (by changing the shutter speed) and following whatever u are trying to get a shot of. You will get a still subject but the background is blurred and gives the impression that the subject is moving. It also removes backgrounds you don't want there and isolates the viewer's attention to the subjects detail.
 * 14) A little simple demonstration is to put your finger in front of your face, close one eye and focus on the finger and move the finger and your head back and forth. You will see that the background is blurred but your finger is still in focus
 * 15) . For panning to be effective you must be:
 * 16) Shooting something moving from left to right.
 * 17) You need an action lens (typically 200mm)
 * 18) The subject must be nice and full in the frame not to small and not overfilling the frame.



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=**THURSDAY MARCH 1, 2012**=

High Angle shot - Low Angle shot (worms) - seen form a low angle, floor looking up (anywhere below the eyelevel), seems superior and bigger. Birds - Eye level shot - seen from above. Point of view - FPS, First person Neutral shot -
 * Camera angles**

Extremely wide shot wide shot - 2 ppl medium shot - half body hips-feet, hips- head medium close up close up Extreme close up cut in cut away two shot over the shoulder shot - self expalanatory point of view shot - fps weather shot headshot -
 * Shot lengths**

Ambient Lighting Task Lighting Accent Lighting
 * Types of lighting**