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Advice on improving action shots?
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New to this site. Here are a few action pictures I’ve taken and looking for any tips anyone can give me as how to improve my shots. The settings weren’t particularly great, taken at friendly 5 a side games in my home town. I used a 80-200 2.8 lens on a Nikon D90 for the shots.
Hi. I’m no expert, but I do a bit of sports myself and I’ve taken some advise along the line. Here’s my advise for what it’s worth.
Although you have stopped the action in your shots, there doesn’t seem to be much action…maybe that’s the players :D … Wait until there’s a tackle. Make sure they haven’t their backs to you. Crop tight and keep your horizons straight. Use continuous shooting mode on your camers and also AI focus.
Hope this helps and as I said I’m no expert.Pat
You seem to have a good knowledge of what to do already. My advice would be something similar to Pat’s.
Keep the horizon level
Look for action moments – headers, tackles, falls, saves etc
Watch your backgrounds, maybe the other side of the pitch might have been better??
#5 is your best shot, good action there
#3 could be cropped tighter to show the concentration on the lad’s face and also to get rid of some/all of the car
Personally, I love shots where the players have great expressions on their faces, such as this one
Hope this helps, feel free to post more
Andy
Guys,
Thanks a lot for the advice. I’ll get to a few games this week to put the new tips in practice. Thanks.
Niall
as the guys before me already said: keep the lines straight (even if you have to do it in post-proecessing), try to capture expressions on players faces and if you keep the shutter speed at over 1/320 you won’t get blur movement. try to use the light (the sun in your case) in your favour, it’s a huge help.
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