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Low perspective vs high perspective
A great way to improve your sports shots to get into a unique perspective, everyone shoots the normal pictures straight from a standing position. but try to sit down next to the sidelines. or maybe even climb up the stairs of the tribune to get a high perspective. This will change your shots a lot! …
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American Football Photography links
A while ago i discovered some great youtube videos by a guy called Scott Sewell, he photographs a lot of American Football, he made a great series of youtube movies about how to shoot football, run around fields, carrying a 400mm 2.8 lens and handle mutliple bodies. I loved the videos even when you do not shoot american football. Check our youtube channel for more cool videos! …
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Analyze before you shoot
Make it easier for yourself, and stop shooting everything that moves before your lens but analyze a bit what players give you the best shots. These game be athletes that just look great, of have awesome moving hair or great facial expressions. This way you can concentrate more on those players. …
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Flickr and greasemonkey
Getting exposure is one of the most important things for a beginning sports photographer! The best tool for getting critique and your photos simple and socially on the web is Flickr. Just uploading photos is not enough though. Adding your photos to groups, give them a geo location and discuss in the Flickr forums will help a lot. Gathering friends, and helping other will do even more success. Trough this way I’ve grown from only 5 visitors a day on my portfolio blog to more then 250. …
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Shooting in low light situations
This is one of the hardest things for a sports photographer, shooting in low light situations. For example, ice-hockey, basketball or any other indoor sport for that matter. If you are in a NHL Rink for example you have less problems, this is because of the TV lights available at such locations But the normal gyms or rinks don’t have very good lightning, trough our eyes it seems verry bright and nice, but for a camera which only captures a very small fraction of light it gets hard. …
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Getting access at sport events
Getting access at sport events is one of the most important things for a beginning sports photographer. Without a portfolio, your nowhere. shooting your kid on the sidelines of the soccer or hockey field are not going to do it. You need pro shots of pro athletes. although that’s my believe. Since the power, passion and emotion of high skilled athletes is so bigger than students or normal kids that this can give you that little bit extra to a stunning photo. …
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Field hockey positions
In this post I’d like to tell more about my experience in field hockey photography, and in particular about the shooting positions. i numbered them with 1, 2, 3, and 4. 1 being the best spot and 4th the less use (because there are no real bad spots here). Be aware there are some factors on why i choose a certain side of the field. this in case of hard sunlight, weird shadows of tries or stadium and so on. …
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Camera basics
Since in these we only shoot digital, and you don’t have to dial in everything yourself you still need to know whats it about to be a good sports photographer. This is why we like to point you out to some must reads on this one. Because we really try to focus on sports photographer we expect our viewers to know something about Aperture, Shutters and other basic elements of a camera. Here are some links if you dont. …
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