Sports Photography Tips

There is a useful article by Steve Johnson over at Nikonians about how to shoot sports scenes like a professional.

Camera Settings

  • Continuous servo autofocus
  • Lock the center focus sensor
  • Center-weighted metering
  • Aperture priority (usually wide open)
  • Possibly some negative exposure value (EV) to avoid blowing out white jerseys. Hopefully not more than -1.0.

Worth a look if you are interested in trying this sort of thing. I thought sports photography was all about shutter priority, so it was useful to see some tips pointing more towards shooting with the lens wide open and using a slighlty negative exposure to prevent the highlights blowing out.

Via Nikonians


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