5 Great Tips for Shooting Sports in the Best Way

Shooting sports is an enchanting affair because you capture all the action and it should look the most impactful, captivating and amazing, in short the best, when people will watch it later. It should capture the action so much that viewers should feel that it’s happening actually in front f them, whether you are shooting live or are recording to watch later. SJCAM Australia is believed to be one of the best sports shooting cameras. Their experts share tips about how to make the most of a sports camera to capture sports in the best way.

1. Camera Settings – Focal Points, Burst Mode and Aperture Priority

While shooting any sport, be sure that your camera is set to continuous/burst mode so as to keep pace with players’ movements. This will eliminate the errors you may make while manually pressing the button for every shot.

Make focus mode of your camera to AI servo mode which is meant for shooting continuous movements and for panning.

Another thing to remember is that all your focal points should be active. This will ensure that you get an optimum chance to focus on the player with the ball. It’s okay while capturing sports to keep the camera in Aperture Priority mode since you are indeed dealing with extremely fast game and you should be focused on the ball with exposure and not on always having to manually toggle the speed of shutter.

2. Shoot in JPG

Shooting in JPG is advisable for many sports photographers than RAW. While capturing so many shots one after the other continuously you will want the buffer speed to be the maximum. You will notice that the parents who purchase shots at netball/soccer tournaments don’t make a fuss about the quality of the photo as long as you shoot something at just the right moment. Shooting a tournament can become a blunder when you have to come out and go back to the field to download CF cards and wait for the download of the RAW files.

3. 2.8 Lens Setting is Almost Necessary

A fast telephoto zoom lens will be needed while shooting sports, though indoor sports shooting such as bowling may need a 2.8 lens since you get one more full stop of light in.

 

4. Focus Mode and Image Stabilizer

Having IS on your lens is absolutely a must while shooting sports. Your lens should be set to IS Mode 2 because Mode 1 is meant only for still subjects and portraits and won’t give performance as good as the panning mode 2 in the situations in the sports events.

Let the range of your focusing distance set to 3m to infinity mode rather than 1.2m to Infinity. With this it will be made sure that you have optimum fastest focus.

5. Consider What Time of the Day it is

Soccer games normally are played in the morning; so, if you want to sell prints of individual players after the match, don’t forget to spread out the collection of shots. Some players like to step back more; you should remember this and record every player and his special characteristics or choices so as to maximize your profit.

Also make sure that the sun is on your back while shooting. This will enable you to keep your shutter speed to maximum with no worries about exposing for the players’ faces if you were photographing in the sun.

Focus for the first half on shooting of one team because they will be in a position where the sun will illuminate their faces/fronts. After the half time, focus on the other team as they will take up the other side of the field.

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