Learn Sports Photography in 3 minutes

Learn the key skills effective sports photography in 3 minutes and then practice, practice, practice

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[nizarjiwan]

I am a 76 year-old Canadian visiting my son and grandchildren in California. I came equipped with excellent Sony A9 and Canon 5D III some pro lenses. However, during the pandemic, I have been using the equipment for the last 2 years. Memory of camera settings has gotten weaker and I have not done much sorts sooting of grandchildren in action. Last night, at the last minute, when my son asked me to capture my 10 year old grandson’s basketball game, I was panic struck. Then I found your five-minute video lesson on YouTube. Voila - no more panic! Best 5 minutes I spent on photography lesson. Now I am ready to set my camera to Fast shutter speed 1/1000 sec, use my 70-200 mm lens to get close to action, to compose the action portion of the scene and track my grandson Nichola Jiwan’s impending action using Continuous Focus (C in SONY) and (Servo in CANON). Thanks to your excellent user-friendly video - no more panic. I am feeling ready to enjoy my time with my grandson and capture the precious memory to share with the extended family all over the world. Thanks to you. By: Nizar Jiwan

[cultureddoggo]

that was very helpful. i was suddenly thrown to a role where I have to take photos for documentation on our sports week even though I am a total amateur, having so many events happening once and not enough availability of people, i would like to help even though it ain't much.

[StevenHarris-kmhj]

Nah cause this video actually improved and helped my photography. Best vid I had found!

[jg]

good tips. I will add a couple more. Where you position yourself can be a big deal. There will be days that the lighting is just not that great, so a shutter speed of 1/1000 may not be possible without under exposing your shots. For these days you can try to position yourself so that the players are coming towards you instead of side to side. That could allow you to have a 1/800 speed and get by and allow you to still stop the action. In addition, most modern cameras can shoot at higher iso when lighting is not good. Setting your iso to auto can help you get shots that you would not ordinarily be able to do

[iceman-koxi]

I'm a Canon guy here. new at that. the last tip was very helpful. thanks!!

[wilhelmw]

Great tips for sport and action photography in general.

[alanjackson]

Very handy for my U13's rugby league photography. Thanks & subscribed.

[dougmanck]

Great tips. When you crop an image do you normally keep the original aspect ratio of 3:2 or do you not restrict the cropping parameters?

[makaveli]

New to photography. What model is recommended?

[Carolinehilliard]

What camera would you recommend for someone who is just starting out?

[paulmalone]

Hi Rob:Great video as always.In this day of digital photography I find that a shutter speed of 1/2000 of a second should be chosen. Now I know that always isn't possible.But I feel that film you could choose a slower shutter.Just my opinion.

[surferdude]

Hi, I have a EOS Rebel T1i, do I need a long telephoto lens to take pictures of my kid's soccer match?

[echelon-thepanamanian_papi]

What aspect ratio should you be shooting in? Especially for prints

[squaretops]

Not sure if my alservo is working.I have it switched on and my lens sounds like it is trying to focus.My focus points do not light up or beep when i half hold down the shutter button.Please give me some advise thanks.

[naijafootballphotographer]

Nice job Rob.
I want to know what focal lens will i need to photograph a player at the mid field from behind the goal post?

[Henduro]

Hi Rob, , Could you please suggest, how to shoot a football game in flood light turf(where light source is limited) during nights?

[bakasahara]

Thanks for the vid, though me broke af have to zone focus lmao

[Technologyadvisor]

what would be a good price for a canon 300mm F2.8 is lens ?their is one i like but is in italy on ebay price just over 2k looks new apart from the end rubber with buttons on has white stuff on the rubber. I think we are still in eu for know arent we ?

[mvp_kryptonite]

Great video, it’s easy to forget one of those when shooting fast action. I’ll add to the list to use mechanical over electronic where possible unless you have a camera that minimises with rolling shutter

[tonys]

We need setup video on 1DX III for sport.