First, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first.
Different from other categories, sports photography has extremely strict requirements on the collocation of cameras and lenses. Only the right body and lens group can capture the fleeting images in the ever-changing arena. Engaged in sports photography, in the choice of equipment, not only requires the high pixel of the machine, but also requires accurate focusing and high-speed continuous shooting function. In recent years, it is not difficult to find that the photographic equipment of Canon Factory has quietly become the main model of the Olympic Games, and white guns can often be seen in the press gallery. Commonly used cameras are Canon EOS- 1DX, 1D Mark IV and 5D Mark III. Of course, the new 5D Mark IV is also a good choice.
White guns gathered at the Olympic shooting scene.
A good camera naturally needs to be matched with a good lens in order to exert its maximum combat effectiveness. In view of the particularity of sports photography, general photographers often need to complete all the shots from super wide angle to super telephoto in order to cope with the ever-changing competition situation on the field. Therefore, the three major elements (taking Canon lens group as an example: EF 1 1-24mm f/4L USM, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM) are necessary for professional sports photographers, and a 70-2000 for ordinary photographers. Of course, professional sports photographers will also prepare several monster-level fixed-focus lenses (EF 300mm f/2.8 is USM, EF 400mm f/2.8 is USM, EF 500mm f/4L is II USM, and EF 600mm f/4L is II USM), because sports photography requires fast focusing speed and precise and sharp focusing control, which are often difficult for zoom lenses to achieve.
In addition, for sports photography, there is an important accessory monopod. Because of the heavy weight of sports photographic equipment, photographers should be flexible and stable when shooting. Monopod is almost a must-have item for sports photographers. At present, carbon fiber materials are popular, which are light, durable and expensive. If you don't want to invest too much on a tripod, an alloy tripod is also a good choice.
Second, the shooting skills of ball games
1. Basketball shooting skills
Because the author is a basketball fan, although the men's basketball team didn't play satisfactorily at the Rio Olympic Games, Yi Jianlian proved himself with stable and excellent performance at the Olympic Games and challenged the NBA again. So let's take a look at some basic skills about basketball shooting first. Then, the problem is coming! How can we distinguish what is good basketball photography?
(1) in the air: For basketball shooting, the first thing is aerial work, so the work should reflect? Flying? This feeling.
Performance of air gap in attack
② Confrontation: Modern basketball is an antagonistic sport, so this feature should also be reflected in our works.
The moment of confrontation under the basket
③ Ensure that the front of the subject is not disturbed: choose a suitable angle to shoot. On the basketball court, you can generally choose the position where the bottom lines on both sides are 3-5 meters away from the basket. Is this posture okay? Is it easy? Capture the moment when the player breaks through.
The moment of holding the ball and breaking through
④ Position of the ball: When shooting basketball, make sure that the ball never leaves your hand. Such photos are often more spiritual, ensuring the dynamic picture.
⑤ Special moment: How to grasp the lore or special events when shooting? Do two things at the same time? In addition to paying attention to the pictures in the camera, we should also know everything that happens on the field like the palm of our hand, so as to grasp the key people at the critical moment and seize the fleeting moment.
The picture shows the wonderful moment of Beijing's victory over Guangdong in the semi-final of 2065 438+05 CBA.
2. Tennis shooting skills
① Choice of shooting position: Like the general audience, some professional sports photographers will choose to shoot in the stands when shooting competitions, and of course they will choose a lower position to shoot. Shooting in the stands really needs a longer focal length. If not, consider shooting with a magnifying glass, such as 5D3 with white (EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L is USM). Shooting in the stands is no problem. It doesn't matter without a full-frame camera. Now even the truncated camera has good focusing ability, so you don't have to worry about missing the beautiful moment on the field. On behalf of the camera, EOS 80D has cross focus.
Game pictures taken from the stands.
So you don't have to be obsessed with the choice of shooting location. In addition to the photos in the stands, let's take a look at the photos from a plane perspective.
The hitting moment in tennis match.
As mentioned above, we often use a monopod to assist in shooting sports games, so please turn off the anti-shake system of the lens or camera. At a certain shutter speed, it will adversely affect the picture definition. Anti-shake is good, but be careful! As for what anti-shake function to use? Just remember one principle: if the enemy does not move, I will not move. In the case of using a tripod, the camera is relatively stable and will not be affected by breathing, heartbeat, tension and other factors, and there is no need for anti-shake function for motion compensation.
② The position of the ball: In order to shoot a good tennis match, we need to pay attention to the position of the ball. A good work needs to include racket and tennis, and pay attention to the relationship between reality and reality. Those high-definition photos often lack agility.
Third, the shooting skills of racing cars and sports bicycles
1. Racing: Different from ball shooting, racing is a regular competition, and it has a specific track to pursue, which will facilitate our shooting to some extent. We need to show the agility of the car when shooting it.
Take a sporty racing photo.
Let's take a look at the camera settings when shooting the game:
① Shutter speed,110-1/30 seconds is the best (under the condition of ensuring correct photo exposure).
② Don't shoot with too long focal length, because the closer you push, the faster the shutter time is required.
③ Focus on the central store and start to follow the shooting.
When shooting, when the car enters from the left side of the picture and reaches the central focus position, focus and press the shutter, and then the camera moves to the right by a sector corresponding to the speed of the car. When the reflector rises and the exposure is over, you find that the car basically coincides with your central focus, so a smart car picture is completed.
2. Shooting skills of outdoor cycling: Many friends may not be exposed to racing in their daily lives, so let's take a look at how to shoot outdoor cycling that has become more and more popular in recent years.
1) Composition: You must learn to observe the scene and surrounding environment through the lens and choose the best shooting point to get the most satisfactory composition. You should pay attention to the following points in framing and composition.
(1) Highlight the theme: Before shooting, do you want your heart to be the same as before painting? Ideas? Think about what the screen mainly shows and where the main body is arranged. Then through light, color, line, shape and other modeling means, to achieve the purpose of highlighting the main body.
② Visual balance: A photo with balanced composition can give people a sense of stability and harmony. There are two kinds of balance: symmetric balance and asymmetric balance. Asymmetric balanced combinations are usually more dynamic than symmetric balanced combinations. The size, shape, weight and direction of the scene, as well as the color, have an important influence on the visual balance.
The ingenious use of composition reflects the visual balance.
(3) Contrast between virtual and real: virtual and real refer to the clarity and fuzziness of the subject and the spatial foreground background. The technique used is nothing more than hiding the virtual and showing the real, alternating the virtual and the real, and supporting the real with the virtual. The purpose is to highlight the main body, render the atmosphere and enhance the sense of space depth. Reality mainly shows the subject of the subject; Imagination, which mainly expresses the companion of the subject and sets off the subject, is the main link of the artistic conception of the picture.
The combination of reality and reality highlights the theme of shooting.
Pay attention to the composition of rhythm and melody photography, and the subjects appear alternately in the same or similar form and repeat in order, thus forming rhythm; If the rhythm shows dynamic changes such as lines, comfort, harmony and ups and downs, it becomes a melody, thus making the picture beautiful, lyrical and smooth. Rhythm and melody are important links to deepen the theme, which are included in the contrast and tone of lines, colors and light.
2) light
① Sunward lighting: The light comes from the front of the scene, and there is no shadow on the scene, so the contrast is small, which can truly show its color, lines, shape and atmosphere.
② Side light: When the light comes from one side of the photographed scene, the scene will produce shadows and contrasts, which will make the shape, lines and texture stand out, thus producing a changeable composition. This is often used in photography.
③ Backlight: The light comes from the back of the shooting scene, and most of the scene is in shadow, while the strong contour light can homogenize the clear shape of the object, thus creating a bright and concise picture.
3) Line application: Line is the skeleton of composition. Any visual work is inseparable from lines. There are usually trees, grass, telephone poles, rivers, waves and so on. Different lines can give people different visual images, for example, horizontal lines can express stability and tranquility, vertical lines can express solemnity and strength, diagonal lines have vitality, vitality and movement, and curves and wavy lines appear weak, leisurely and attractive; Thick line is heavy, thin line is light, thick line is strong, thin line is weak, solid line is static and dotted line is moving, which is used incisively and vividly in composition.
Backlight shooting uses silhouette to outline people's lines.
When shooting outdoor cycling equipment, we don't need to chase top equipment. An EOS 80D is enough to meet the general shooting conditions, which is useful for cross focusing, with little difference in accuracy and easy focusing.
Fourth, sports lead the fashion and let your pictures speak.
Compared with the above-mentioned racing and ball games, I believe that running is the sport that people contact the most, and it is undoubtedly the sport closest to our lives. We will see all kinds of interesting running groups and marathons sponsored by various manufacturers.
Nowadays, we are in an era of rapid development of science and technology. Besides living and studying, is there one thing that people spend more time here? Share? . Will we go? Friends circle? In it, you can see all kinds of living conditions of friends around you. So, here's the question? ! How do we tell everyone? Share? What about your healthy self? How to influence friends around you to fall in love with sports through their own behavior?
At this time, you need a professional photographer to record the moment of movement for you. Of course, behind every smiling face, it is the hard result of photographers getting up early and getting greedy for the dark.
? Color running shooting scene
We can see that there are many captured color running sub-images here, all taken by Canon 1DX. Although 1DX has good noise resistance, in order to better protect the camera, we still need to wrap the camera in a plastic bag when shooting, otherwise the later cleaning project will be too troublesome.
Camera noise refers to any bright spot on the photosensitive material except normal exposure, which will affect the imaging quality of the photo. Noise immunity means that the noise of the camera can be well controlled, thus improving the imaging quality. That is, what is commonly said in Beijing dialect? Leather durable? , which allows the camera to face various extreme environments and shoot in bad weather.
A little more professional marathon, because the race is longer, needs a thorough study of the route before shooting. Shooting competitions are also on. First, the starting point is to shoot big scenes from a high angle, and second, to run during shooting. You can choose buildings with local characteristics and spectators as the background to shoot in advance. Finally, we should catch the picture of sprinting to the finish line. At this time, we can choose to shoot the picture with the finish line sign at a low angle when shooting.
Athletes sprint pictures
The role of the camera is to freeze the moment and record the decisive moment of the event. Still that sentence? * * * If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first? As a sports news photographer, the most regrettable thing is that things happened and you didn't catch them. The focal lengths commonly used in shooting are 24-70 and 70-200. With the guarantee of equipment, what we need to exercise is the sensitivity to the environment and on-site emergencies. The ability to deal with emergencies cannot be cultivated overnight. It needs long-term shooting accumulation, grasping the overall environment of the stadium, and always grasping the position, dynamics and behavior of key people on the stadium and the overall mood of the audience. What we need to do is to find the key things and key people at the first time and record them in time. So that the photos you take will be. Live broadcast? People who see it at the same time can interpret what the author wants to express through pictures at the first time.