How to Shoot Action and Sports with Digital Camera which is field quite difficult field to master and demands high-end equipment for high quality images. Photography equipments for sports photography unfortunately requires heavy and expensive to get a good result, especially when lighting conditions are poor. Most importantly, a high end computer (read Mac Pro or MacBook Pro) with Adobe Photoshop is almost mandatory. How to Shoot Action and Sports with Digital Camera will give you some ideas, using which you can actually get better picture with a normal range DSLR.
How to Shoot Action and Sports with Digital Camera : The Basic Need
How to Shoot Action and Sports with Digital Camera – the question has two aspects of answer, first you need to master the basics of Operating a DSLR and second is to buy the required components. However, the basics of operating a DSLR can bring some success with your DSLR without the need to buy costly lens if the usage is just infrequent.
A full frame DSLR having a highly reactive autofocus (AF) and a good processing engine is essential. A good increase in ISO sensitivity is also essential, especially indoors or at night: ISO 2500-3200 for the top-level football, often 5000 or 6400 in most sports which are complex. The body must be associated with a lens with a wide aperture (f/2.8 or f / 4 minimum) and a long focal length (200 mm minimum).
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How to Shoot Action and Sports with Digital Camera
Day and with hardware input range can be as lower as 600D or 60D coupled to a 70-300mm Lens faint opening eg f/5.6), the light can easily shoot sports like football or rugby, it is a good opportunity to try hand at sports photography. Recall that for this type of photo, it is necessary to adjust the shutter speed at least to 1/500. Everything is history of compromise, based on the available light. Be preferred, especially with a low-end box, shoot at 1/500 f/5.6 ISO 500, at 1/1000 f/5.6 ISO 1000, knowing that the noise increases with increasing the ISO sensitivity.
On a high-end device, the difference in quality between ISO 500 and 1000 are not huge, much less is the annoying shutter lag. Moreover, most of the newspaper reporters and photographers uses a shutter speed at the expense of noise caused by the rise of the ISO.
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When this light is scarce, the use of an average premium DSLR (7D, D700, 1D, D3 etc.) associated with a telephoto lens (70-200, 300, 400mm and minimum f/2.8) becomes indispensable. The poor lighting in most sports complexes the photographer to push their equipment to the limit of reasonable (ISO 6400, 1/500 f/2.8) quality. The use of flash is strongly discouraged – it is also banned in many sports (including table tennis).
