28.10.2016
Sports photography is a special and very interesting genre of photography. However, the photographer must have a certain skill in order to be able to capture the necessary moment that most fully shows the intensity of the struggle or the delight of victory in the photo.
Sports photography is especially dynamic. Even if we are talking about filming a chess game, the photograph will carry powerful emotions, moods, and tension. The photographs are not only aesthetic, they convey the real sports spirit, lively and intense: the joys of victory, the bitterness of losses, dramatic moments, struggle. Most photographers dream of being at the biggest sports competitions, where big sports stars are born.
The process of sports photography
The main difference between this type of photography is its dynamism. It is obtained due to the instantaneous “registration” of what is happening. The photographer has only a split second for each shot.
To get excellent shots, you need not only to love and understand the sport, but also to know it. A good knowledge of the rules and techniques of various sports helps create spectacular and amazing photographs. If you are going to photograph any sporting event, you need to become familiar with the basic principles of this sport in advance, take care of the equipment and select the necessary photographic accessories.
A large amount of equipment can only hinder your work, and the speed of what is happening does not leave time to change the lens or change the shooting location.
Technology itself plays a very important role here. Fast autofocus is very important (a suitable subject for photography very often arises spontaneously), tracking focus (our subjects are almost always in motion), good and fast optics (necessary for blurring the background or reducing shutter speed), high-speed shooting mode (helps to capture the most successful phase of movement), the speed of the shutter (thanks to it we do not miss the moment we need).
Features of sports photography
Sports are not just what happens on the court. Sports also mean team and individual training for both athletes and cycling clubs, for example. These include various games and extreme sports, such as kiting, alpine skiing, skydiving or rope jumping.
Of course, there are sports where skill is not necessary at all, but they still require that the photographer understands what is happening in front of him. It is impossible to make a high-quality photo report without understanding the essence of what is happening, and most importantly, it will be difficult for the photographer to navigate where it is better to be, and where, on the contrary, it is impossible to stand.
Most of all, every photographer is interested in the athlete himself, and only then - everything else. “Everything else” here means judges and numerous spectators, emotions, which are often much more interesting than the sporting action itself, and also the surrounding reality (landscapes and scoreboards, stadium stands and athletes waiting their turn).
The most difficult subjects to photograph are athletes. They require maximum effort from the photographer. Competitors can move very quickly around the stadium or sports field; they hardly stand still and do not give the photographer the opportunity to “take aim” properly. Competition photography is a constant search for the optimal balance between aperture and shutter speed, a constant battle for the best sharpness.
Each sport is rich in unique moments. There is a general principle here: the photographer must be in the right place at the right time, and in addition, have time to press the shutter button. Everything is decided in thousandths of a second. It is important to photograph genuine, lively, vivid emotions. Nowhere else, except, perhaps, reportage photography, can you find so many emotional, interesting and rich shots.
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Sports have always been and will be one of the most interesting subjects for photography. Living, genuine emotions, team spirit and competitive struggle, experiences on the verge of a breakdown, the bitterness of defeat and the dizzying joy of victories - all this makes sports photographs clear examples of the most powerful human emotions. Today, especially for the XXII Winter Olympic Games, we present a review of the best sports photographers in Russia.
Alexander Zemlyanichenko
Alexander Zemlyanichenko is one of the most famous modern Russian photojournalists, head of the photography department of the Moscow bureau of the Associated Press agency. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: once as part of a team of five Associated Press photographers for his coverage of the 1991 coup, and again for his photographs of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert in 1996.
- I consciously started filming in high school, but I think back then it was all a game, nothing more.- Alexander recalls. - Then, while already studying at the university, I began to collaborate first with the student newspaper, then with the regional one, and after graduating from college, the very next day I went to work as a photojournalist.
Alexander himself counts himself among “a small number of professionals who claim to be called photojournalists”: “I would highlight the conscious following of the news and the desire to talk about what you see in your own language, the language of a photograph. A photographer, photojournalist must always be on topic,”- he says.
As a true news photographer, Alexander has also photographed sporting events throughout his career. In one of his interviews, he spoke about the features of this type of shooting:
- A large number of shots are taken here, because sport is movement, and it is better to have a choice than not to have one. But editing experience is, first of all, just experience, and then, during any shooting you need to know what you want, be it a press conference or a football match; again, you need to know the background. If this is a press conference, for example, of a Syrian opposition leader, you need to know for what purposes he came, what is the result of the negotiations that he has already held, and based on this, shoot and select pictures. It’s the same in sports: if Spartak plays with Dynamo, then maybe it’s not the action itself that is important, but the coach’s reaction is interesting, you also need to know this in advance. Why are you going to film this match and what is the sports journalist going to write? You will film the wonderful flight of a football player with the ball, but in fact, no one needs it: yes, it will be great to hang on the wall, but no one will write about it, but they will write about such and such a striker, because tomorrow they will resell him; This is our specificity.
According to Alexander, he is always interested first of all in the person:
- With its help I can show the event. If you are photographing an athlete who has just won a hundred-meter race, then, if possible, also include in the frame the one who took second place, although he was counting on the first: they will have different facial expressions, this will create depth and volume of the event, so any topic I try to solve with the help of a hero,- he emphasizes.
Alexander Nemenov
Alexander Nemenov, one of the most prominent photographers of our time, talks about himself like this:
- He served in the border troops of the KGB of the USSR in 1987–1989 as a senior MEP at the outpost, but the most interesting things began later. How is it possible to serve in the border troops and not be the coolest? Something struck a chord when I saw the guys who had come from Afghanistan to serve in a tank regiment, in the rear, with us. They sat at the bus stop in Afghan cotton - a strange thing in the Union at that time - and smiled as they saw off our GAZ-66 with an alarming group looking out from the back in the same cotton, only camouflage. My war lasted throughout the nineties and continues to this day, fortunately, less and less often. Since 1990 I have been a photojournalist for TASS, since 1997 - for the France Presse agency, and have traveled a lot. I wanted to tell something not only in pictures.
His photographs taken during the Chechen war were most famous, but he also reached a very influential level in sports.
Photo: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images. Tennis tournament "Kremlin Cup - 2010", final, Viktor Troicki vs. Marcos Baghdatis
Yuri Kadobnov
Yuri Kadobnov is the head of the photo service of the Russian bureau of Agence France Presse, a multiple winner of sports photojournalism competitions, and has held dozens of competitions in all sports.
Grigory Dukor
Grigory Dukor is the chief editor of the Reuters photo service in Russia and the CIS countries. He doesn’t like to talk about himself personally; for him it is inseparable from talking about his work:
I have been running the Reuters agency for a long time, and I love filming. The volume of work is increasing, competition is intensifying. Now we are changing, like the whole world, we want to continue to be recognizable. If previously the task was to tell a story with one picture, now we are doing more and more photo reports.
Gregory speaks unequivocally about the photographer’s work. This is what he answered in an interview with the Chelyabinsk branch of the Russian Union of Photographers when asked about the photographer’s civic position:
- You should have this position: come home and say what you want. But when filming, you must be absolutely impartial, otherwise you won’t be able to work, there is a lot of evidence of this. Sometimes sports photographers, taking advantage of the fact that they have accreditation, come to sporting events to cheer, and they do not take pictures, but cheer. I’m not saying this to condemn them, but you can’t do these two things at the same time, it won’t work. In the same way, if you go to any event, for example, a meeting of communists or someone else whom you personally do not like, you will not get a good photo. If you are a supporter of what is happening, you will again miss everything interesting, so you need to leave your emotions aside. If you can't be impartial, ask someone else to take the photo.
Gregory loves filming sports, “because there is always something going on in it, there is action all the time. There are good photographs, and there are simply successful ones because we were lucky,” he said in an interview with the Rostov.ru portal. Grigory is sure that luck is important in sports photography:
- There will be no take, no one will repeat the encore, so the photographer is prepared for everything to happen very quickly. And of course, you need luck: something can happen that will make the shot good. Let's say people are just running - there will be a photograph of people running; if one ran and the other jumped, it would be funny; one ran, and the second fell - a completely different story, not everyone can film this, some are lucky, some are not. But if this doesn’t happen, then no one will take a picture of it, no one will be lucky, and the results will be ordinary photographs.
Alexander Fedorov
Alexander Fedorov is a special photojournalist for the Sport-Express newspaper, who has devoted more than 20 years of his life to sports photojournalism. Devoted to his profession, he spends all holidays and weekends at work.
So, in 2012, on his 50th anniversary, Alexander went to his fifth European championship. Football is his favorite sport, but he has filmed a wide variety of competitions throughout his career. The gallery of Fedorov's works contains emotional, bright, memorable shots of football, hockey and other sports competitions.
Evgeny Tumashov
Evgeny Tumashov is a recognized professional in biathlon photography. He started taking photographs while still in school. His career began with the newspaper “Evening Moscow”, where he was hired first as a laboratory assistant, and a year later he was transferred to photographers. Since 2001, he has worked at biathlon competitions as a photojournalist for the Soviet Sport newspaper, and since 2011 as a photographer for the Russian Biathlon Union. For 10 years, he followed the races and their heroes through the lens of a camera and collected a unique collection of photographs. In the fall of 2012, on the eve of the start of the pre-Olympic season, Evgeny Tumashov’s personal exhibition “Biathlon. 10 years in the lens."
- I always wanted to take beautiful pictures,- Evgeniy told the Moscow Sports portal, - and biathlon provides such an opportunity, because competitions usually take place in the mountains. No other sport, in my opinion, is surrounded by such beauty. I don’t know where else you can find such a variety of colors and shades... Lights are installed along the route, so you can shoot in the evening and in the fog.
Sergei Ilnitsky is one of the best modern reporters. His photographs are published by leading publications not only in Russia, and in 2013 he entered the golden fund of world photojournalism, becoming one of the winners of the competition.
- More and more people have good photographic equipment,- he shared his thoughts with a correspondent from the portal Colta.ru. - Everyone can now make a technically competent shot, that is, technical skill is no longer a criterion for success. You need to be very fast, be able to put into a picture, preferably one, the whole essence of what is happening, and here you need an address plan, and that very decisive moment, and a thought, then you will get that same photo icon - an icon picture. And this is no longer so easy to do, very few people know this now, and for a photo agency such a skill is the most important thing.
The World Press Photo Award was awarded to Sergei for a series of photographs of fencers.
- I was very surprised by the emotionality of this sport when I was filming,- recalls Sergei. - There were foreign colleagues with me, more experienced in filming fencing, and I asked: “And these guys, are they always so emotional? Are they screaming, crying, jumping, throwing masks?” And the photographers made some joke, like: “So this is good for you, bro,” and laughed. The athlete sitting next to me and who did not participate in the competition that day reacted to our conversation. He explained that he had been preparing for these Games all his life: since childhood he dreamed of winning an Olympic award, even if not gold - it doesn’t matter, the main thing for him was to get on the podium. And he trained continuously for 15 years. Of course, he won European and World Cups, but he was preparing specifically for the Olympic Games. And now he has the only chance, one for his entire life: he may not participate in the next Games, since the peak of his physical and mental form will pass, hence the emotions. I understood him so much at that moment that it became much easier for me to shoot. I just felt everything that was happening in this sport. Once you were distracted, a blade was stabbed into you. Your whole life is focused on the tip of this sword. One touch, one injection - and you are either a winner or a loser. That's why the series is called The Golden Touch.
Dmitry Azarov
Dmitry Azarov is a photojournalist for the Kommersant newspaper, part of the so-called Kremlin pool, and a student of Vladimir Gurgenovich Musaelyan, Brezhnev’s personal photographer, who later wrote the book “The Secretary General and the Photographer.” Dmitry's most famous projects are devoted to a critical understanding of the political situation in Russia. Some of his most famous works are the “Double Personality” and “Four Seasons of Vladimir Putin” series. The photo book about the Olympians “Okolokolets, or Canadian Lessons,” published by Dmitry together with journalist Andrei Kolesnikov, gained great popularity.
Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko (left) and Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi (right) / Photo by Dmitry Azarov
Ivan Sekretarev
Ivan Sekretaryov is an Associated Press photographer. During his creative career, he took a huge number of reportage photographs - sporting events, hot spots, political and cultural events.
Ivan Sekretaryov began his career as a photojournalist in 1991 in the children's newspaper "Glagol", and later worked in "Moskovskaya Pravda", "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Izvestia". His father explained to him how to use the camera. “This is a lens, and this is a button,” he said, “and you have to press it like this,” Ivan recalled.
- In my development as a photographer,- he noted in an interview with the Moscow Sports portal, - Two of my father’s friends played a big role: Alexander Grigorievich Kurbatov, who was a role model for me when I worked in newspapers, and the chief photographer of the Associated Press agency, Alexander Vladimirovich Zemlyanichenko. It was he who later picked me up, taught me and nurtured me under his wing. And in May 1998, I became a photographer at the Moscow bureau of this news agency.
While photographing sports, Ivan feels “involved in the gameplay,” and therefore cannot “objectively evaluate these pictures”:
- I only wish that, looking at them, I could remember and feel the surge of emotions that once struck me a year later. Sports have drama, beauty, and a variety of feelings. I enjoy it both as a viewer and as a photographer. I try not just to capture some phase of a sports action, but to capture a moment in the story unfolding in front of me that can become decisive or reveal to us something that we cannot even guess about,- he says.
Oleg Naumov
Oleg Naumov is called one of the most sought-after sports photographers. He collaborates with the Russian Olympic Committee, Bosco Sport, Forward and Ice Symphony companies, LED and Olympic Panorama magazines, Russian sports federations - rhythmic and artistic gymnastics, figure skating, hockey and synchronized swimming.
Oleg is a graduate of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, he himself was engaged in wrestling and sambo. He became interested in photography as a child.
- When the children appeared and I wanted to capture their every step, I picked up the camera again,- he said in an interview with Nikon. - I showed the resulting photographs to my friends, and when I began to hear more and more enthusiastic responses to my work, I became interested in how one becomes a professional photographer. Combining my sports background with my newfound hobby, I dedicated myself to sports photography.
According to Oleg, this cannot be done without luck, an instinct for a good shot and skill.
- A sports photographer must work according to the rules of the sport he is photographing.- says Oleg. - The most interesting thing on a hockey rink happens in the goal area, where players fight, push, the puck flies in or, conversely, the goalkeeper makes a beautiful save. Good shots can also be taken near the substitutes' bench - only there you can convey through photography the real emotions of the players and coaches, everything that is so interesting to the fan. These moments need to be felt, the sports photographer needs to be half a step ahead of the action.
Robert Maximov
Robert Maksimov is a member of the International Association of Sports Journalists, a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, one of the authors and developers of a program for training qualified specialists to ensure high-quality photography of sporting events, a laureate of international, all-Union and all-Russian sports photography exhibitions and competitions. He has devoted more than 40 years to sports photojournalism.
- Over the years I have taken part in 14 Olympic Games and most of the World and European Championships in athletics and other sports,- he says. - My archive contains hundreds of thousands of photographs of these events.
Robert Maksimov took part in the preparation of the final album “Moscow-80”, the official three-volume report of the organizing committee of the XXII Summer Olympic Games of 1980 in Moscow, albums and books on Olympic topics, in particular, the illustrated two-volume “Olympic Century”, published in 2002.
Andrey Golovanov and Sergey Kivrin
Photojournalists Andrey Golovanov and Sergey Kivrin have been working together for more than 25 years. During this time, they managed to receive awards at the most prestigious photo competitions in Russia and abroad: World Press Photo, Adidas AIPS Canon, Inter Photo, Nikon and others. They collaborated with the magazines Newsweek, Ogonyok, Cosmopolitan, Burda, PROSPORT, TV Park, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Now their photographs are happily continued to be published by the publications “Russian Reporter”, “Sport-Express”, “Soviet Sport”, “Itogi”. They cooperate with news agencies Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, IMAGO, AFLO.
Andrey and Sergey cannot imagine working alone. Here's how they commented on their decision to work together in Itogi magazine:
- This is due to the specifics of working at sports competitions,- said Sergei. - It is very difficult for one person to run around the entire stadium and catch the desired shot. In general, we began to use collaboration tactics long before we created a common brand: it’s just that when we were still working at the Soviet Union magazine, the three of us, Andrei and our good friend Evgeniy Miransky began to be accredited for all sporting events, and then When submitting a topic to a magazine, sign the photographs with three names. Such a collective report always turned out to be more interesting than if everyone worked alone. We occupied different positions, filmed from different points and were able to cover the competition as fully as possible. But soon the Soviet Union collapsed and the magazine too, we worked separately for some time: Andrei - in Kommersant, in "Faces", I - in the American editions of the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, and Zhenya stopped working professionally in photography altogether .
- In 1996, we met at the Atlanta Olympics and decided not only to work together, but also to create a common brand,- Andrey added. - We have developed a certain shooting style that we like, and together we get more done.
Alexander Vilf
Correspondent for RIA Novosti agency.
He began his career at the Sport Express newspaper, became actively involved in photography during Soviet times - he photographed banned opposition rallies for Western publications, after which he became interested in photographing sports.
Follow our news! Exclusive interviews with the best sports photographers in Russia, materials about their work and the best photographs from the Olympics in Sochi await you!
And we want to end the material with the words of Sergei Kivrin: “For me in sports, the main thing is to give 100% and perform honestly and with dignity. Whether there will be medals or not is a second matter.”
We wish our athletes worthy performances!We are cheering for ours!
For assistance in preparing the material, the editors express special gratitude to the curator-coordinator of the All-Russian annual open project Best of Russia,postgraduate student of the Department of Photojournalism at Moscow State UniversityMaria Vashchuk.
Are you going to learn how to shoot sporting events better and create spectacular shots? Sports photography gives you many opportunities to capture dramatic and powerful images that will stay with you for a lifetime. No other medium provides you with so much heart-pounding action, so much rich color, and so many unique shooting opportunities.
By following these 8 tips, you can dramatically improve your photography that will make all your friends jealous. The key, beyond these eight tips, is to keep shooting! Practice makes perfect, ensuring you have a steady hand and are ready when the big game comes around.
1. Be prepared to use high ISOs
Are you planning to take the perfect shot, but the lighting leaves much to be desired? Trying to stop motion in a small league game and need a faster shutter speed? Increasing your camera's ISO will allow you to shoot at faster shutter speeds, giving you a better chance of getting your perfect shot.
Professional sports photographers use a shutter speed of around 1/1000 of a second to freeze action. During the day it's easy. However, at night you may need to open the aperture wider than your lens is capable of. As a compromise, increase the ISO (what used to be called film speed) on your camera. This will allow the device to detect more light.
So how high do you need the values? If you're shooting with the latest and greatest cameras like the Nikon D700 or Canon 5d Mark II, you can use ISO settings all the way up to the maximum level (3200 ISO) and your images will still look good. In the past, higher ISO settings meant more noise in photos. However, with the latest systems, photos look great at any value.
With that said, I usually shoot at 1600 ISO. This is the sweet spot between ISO 800 and ISO 3200 and allows me to photograph sporting events at much faster shutter speeds.
Depending on your camera's capabilities, you might also want to try using Auto ISO to let your camera automatically select the best ISO value for you. This feature has one unique feature: the automatic system does not change ISO in full increments, for example from 400 ISO to 800 ISO, but instead it can change the value from 200 ISO to 210 ISO. Take note of this setting if you're just starting to work with ISO settings to improve night photography.
2. Try something new
All sports footage should not look the same. A few years ago, photographers from a small American magazine decided to try something new to cover football matches. Instead of shooting at eye level, they lay as low to the ground in the end zone as they could with a wide-angle lens. What did this do to their images? This provided them with a new angle to help tell the story. Who were these people, you ask? Sports Illustrated Photographers. Now everyone does it.
When shooting, be original and try something different. At every event I cover, I try to find as many new approaches as possible. I primarily work as a professional motorsports photographer, shooting mostly NASCAR, but every event has a different situation. This allows me to try new backgrounds, new angles, new shooting positions.
You don't have to shoot professional sports to try something new. Even when I was photographing football games in high school, I was always looking for new angles and ideas.
By trying to create something different, you allow your creativity to flourish and create something that no one has shot before. In the picture below, I was photographing through the windshield of a race car and caught the driver getting ready to take to the track.
3. Be aware of your surroundings
This may sound like nonsense, but be aware of your surroundings. Whether it's a stadium full of cheering fans or tailgating outside the stadium, the environment gives you unique opportunities to capture the spirit of the game without capturing the action.
Before the match begins, tailgating is a great place to capture real fans before the game.
Before a basketball game starts, the referees' side is also a good place to take shots that reflect the team's spirit.
Even after the game has started, be aware of your surroundings. If you have a wide-angle lens, such as a 10.5mm or 14mm, get as high as you can and capture the overall view of the stadium filled with cheering fans.
4. Prepare a gear strap or camera bag
Ever wondered why sports photographers carry so much equipment with them? This is because we want to flex our muscles while we walk.
Jokes aside, when you are on the sidelines or in the thick of things, it will be hard to run somewhere to your bag and change equipment. Many sports photographers use one of three items to carry equipment when working on the sideline: a fanny pack, a harness system, or a camera vest.
Photo vests were cool a few years ago (I had one), but now they're impractical given the number of lenses you need to have in your easy reach. I prefer to use a good waist belt system. In this system I have 6 holsters that can be used at any given time, ranging from large lens holsters to one dedicated specifically for flash.
This system allows me to quickly change lenses and keep all my memory cards in one safe place. On the sidelines, this allows me to remain ready for action with a set of lenses, and since each holster has a protective coating, it also keeps the equipment safe in the rain in outdoor sports shooting environments.
Some companies offer special bags for sports photographers.
The key to choosing a good system is to find one that is comfortable for you and suits your specific needs. Visit your local photo store, try different options, and see what works best.
5. Long glasses will go far
Capturing the perfect shot in sports comes down to relatively few things. One of the most important points is glass. Sports photography, unlike any other type of photography, sometimes requires the largest and most expensive equipment available on the market. This will allow you to shoot from anywhere in and around the stadium, including the American football end zone, creating beautiful shots.
I say all this for one simple reason. As we mentioned earlier, cameras can now do wonders with high ISO settings. This allows people to use slower sports lenses such as f/4.
When you're looking for a good glass for sports photography, consider the following factors:
- Get 300mm or 400mm telephoto lenses if you can afford them. If not, take 70-200 mm.
- Choose lenses with an aperture number of f/2.8 or f/4. Try to pick one up and avoid f/5.6 like the plague.
- Typically, the larger and heavier the lens, the better it is.
- Make sure the lens has a tripod socket.
- Look for lenses that have stood the test of time: this is the reason why Nikon and Canon rarely change their lens lineup.
Buying good glass is not the same as buying a new carcass. Good glass will last you at least 10 years with proper care and maintenance.
6. Let's go without the "chimp", please.
Every sports photographer suffers from “chimping”. If you're not familiar with the term, it's definition will clear everything up.
Essentially, champing is when you check each frame on the LCD immediately after shooting. Why is that bad? This distracts you from the action because... All your attention is focused on the camera. This is bad for two reasons: (1) you may get injured, and (2) you may miss a good shot.
When you do this, you take your eyes off the field and the action. If you're filming football, you could easily get knocked down on the sideline while your attention is elsewhere.
There is a time and place for viewing your photos. During sporting events, there is no second chance after the shutter clicks. Move on to the next game.
7. Use a slow shutter speed
Long exposure? I used to use 1/1000th of a second to capture the action and stop it...
When trying to create something new and interesting, you can sometimes try different shutter speeds. If you're shooting baseball and want to capture the hit in perfect silhouette, I don't suggest you shoot at 1/60th of a second. But if you want a shot with a cool blurred background, this works great.
Many professional photographers from Getty Images and Reuters use this technique to add energy to their images and create luxurious-looking clean backgrounds. Shooting at 1/100 or 1/80 of a second will allow the player to be in focus while the background is very, very effectively blurred.
8. Avoid using flash
When filming professional or student competitions, flash photography is strictly prohibited. Flash can distract players and drive coaches crazy. There are a few exceptions, including basketball and indoor sporting events, but on-camera flashes generally cannot be used.
For indoor events, schools typically have very powerful strobes (or strobes) mounted on the beams of the hall to ensure the ideal amount of light hits the playing field. These flashes can be synchronized with your camera using Pocket Wizard.
When you're shooting outdoors, such as football or baseball, you should never use flash on your camera. This is why ISO settings are so important.
If you are photographing a local event, or a lower level event such as a high school football tournament, flash is usually acceptable. I always check with the coaches or school athletic director first to make sure the flashes won't interfere with anyone.
Many sanctioning bodies have specific rules for photographers, so before photographing an event, make sure you read them so you know what is and isn't allowed.
Hello, on this page a sports photographer will tell and show how a sports photo shoot is done. Here you can see photos from sporting events, extreme photography and sports-style photo shoots.
Sports photographer
A sports photographer is always an interesting, but often extreme way of life with a high speed of events.
Filming sporting events
Extreme photography
Photographing extreme sports requires as much courage from a photographer as it does from extreme sports athletes, because all the vantage points for shooting are in the most inaccessible places.
Photographic equipment is subjected to the same serious test in extreme conditions, so you need to be mentally prepared for material and psychological sacrifices. Photographic equipment for extreme photography must be reliable, compact and redundant. My travel kit, for sports photography events or for a small extreme expedition, includes:
- Professional photo backpack with protective compartments for lenses and cameras;
- Lenses 12, 24-70 and 70-200 mm;
- Two Nikon SLR digital cameras;
- External flash with synchronizer;
- Folding tripod;
- Double set of batteries, accumulators, chargers and flash drives;
- Matrix and lens cleaning kit;
- Sometimes a laptop for storing photos and quick processing.