Capturing the action of a thrilling sports event, whether it's football, rugby, soccer, or tennis is a wonderful feeling. Here are a few of our choicest tips on sports photography that can hopefully improve your sports snapshots.

1. SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY

2. INTRODUCTION - THE ART OF
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
Capturing the action of a thrilling sports event, whether it's
football, rugby, soccer, or tennis is a wonderful feeling.
Here are a few of our choicest tips on sports photography
that can hopefully improve your sports snapshots.

3. SEVEN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
TIPS FOR BEGINNER
PHOTOGRAPHERS

4. 1. HAVE A ZOOM RANGE OF 200MM
A focal length greater than 200mm is obviously better as it will allow you to get close to the
action without being able to zoom in.
Recommended beginner lenses are the Nikkon AF-S DX 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR or
the Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM.

5. 2. AVOID USING AUTOMATIC MODE
This is a common mistake made by most amateur photographers.
They will usually set their camera in full automatic mode.
While these may work on occasions, but if you want to take your
skills to the next level you must use a semi-manual mode.

6. 3. USE A FAST SHUTTER SPEED
In sports photography, you'd want to ensure that the shutter speed of your
camera is quick enough to capture the moving bodies of the athletes.
A shutter speed of at least 1/500th of a second is required to freeze movement.

7. 4. WATCH YOUR ISO
ISO is very important.
For a bright sunny daytime soccer match, for example, a low ISO of 400 will be
perfect. On a darker day, however, you will need to increase your ISO, usually to
around the
800-1200 mark.

8. 5. POSITION YOURSELF RIGHT
The best thing you can do is to position yourself with the sun behind your back.
That way you can ensure that a lot of light is hitting your subject out on the
field of play, which reverts back to letting as much light in as possible.

9. 6. SHOOT FROM A LOW ANGLE
By shooting from your knees you are capturing much more
of a dramatic angle as well as letting in more of a clear
background rather than other athletes and grass.
The lower perspective also gives the photo excellent depth.

10. 7. USE APERTURE PRIORITY
When we set the camera’s aperture in aperture priority mode we're allowing
the camera to determine its shutter speed.
On a bright sunny day, this is usually the best setting to use. Many
professional sports photographer use the aperture priority mode to take
breathtaking photographs.

11. CONCLUSION
Last but never the least, always remember that once you've taken the perfect shot, you
need the perfect edit too. You can find a wide range of popular, affordable photo editing
services on the internet that may come in exceptionally handy for this purpose.
So that more or less sums up this presentation. We hope that with these tips you can
capture some awesome sports photographs.

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