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Sport photography (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Johnako123@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello everyone. Yesterday it was the first time for me shooting sports. It was Volleyball. How the *** do professionals get solid photos with all the faces, people running around, athletes getting in your shot while you are focused on a subject, limited space etc? I took around 1300 photos. Only like 300 of them are usable. It was extremely tough anticipating the ball and trying to capture the action. And when I did... the faces... Oh my god. And not only that.. it was women playing...you can imagine how many of the photos they will like. Some are pretty good athletic photos not gonna lie. And to my defense I had only one lens a 24-105 f/4. I am waiting for the new Sigma for Sony mount. I think it will help a lot. Anyway I would love some advice. Thank you.

Edit: By saying it was women I wasnt trying to be sexist at all. But my girlfriend was playing and when see saw the photos she would look at every minute detail of her body.

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[–] pwar02@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

As with all things, practice makes perfect. It's impossible to expect to be great your first time doing anything. Even seasoned sports photogs still have a learning curve when shooting a new sport. The more you cover a specific sport (and it helps tremendously to already have an understanding on how it's played) the better you can anticipate the action and you know what you want to get pictures of instead of just trying to shoot any random action happening in front of you.

As far as keepers, as already mentioned that's a lot. Obviously different people have different definitions of what makes a keeper (for some it's as long as it's in focus, others are much more specific like peak action/ball/face/no body part cut off). I'd say 10% is a great ratio to be at, and like mentioned above when you get to know a sport and know what kinds of photos you want, your overall shot count goes down and your keeper rate goes up.