إرشادات عامةلتصوير الألعاب الرياضية -٣- التقاط اللحظات الحاسمة باب آخرمن ابواب النجاح

the third episode
General guidelines for shooting sports
Capturing decisive moments is another door to success.

On the way to developing your photographic style, in general, and to succeed in sports photography in particular, a photographer needs to have a sixth sense.
This sense must be among the equipment that you arm yourself with when you go to the stadiums to return with more successful shots. As for the work of this sixth sense, it warns you that something is about to happen. Besides, your detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the sport in question and the major players involved is vital here.
But it remains to be reminded that there is no substitute for being fully prepared when the decisive moment comes.

Camera shake is one of the main enemies of a sports photographer, so if you want to buy an automatic exposure single-lens reflex camera, choose one with better shutter speed. Because knowing the shutter speed that has been set up can be the difference between a successful shot and a failed one, when it comes to freezing a moment that will pass quickly ... a moment that may never be repeated. Or adopt a high shutter speed in your camera in advance, and this will inevitably be at the expense of the aperture.

Pre-preparation
With athletics, there is a greater possibility to choose the appropriate place and search for the best angle. The issue of preparing for the shot remains clear and well-thought-out as long as you have a culture about the stages of these games - for jumping-or jumping matches - the best places are in front of the athlete to record the moment of his fall or his physical expressions. The moment of the fall can be captured, either with a wide-angle lens of 20 or 24 mm - to express The distance and its height, as is the case with shot number one, and it is clear that the presence of other players is necessary to feel the depth of space and the height of the jump. As for the second jump shot, it was taken with a zoom lens
80 x 200 mm to emphasize the moment of falling and the movement of sand as if it is exploding from between the feet, and thus to record the movement of the hands and facial expressions.

- Site selection
Tennis matches are the most popular game these days and are therefore getting more and more attention from photographers.
If you are an amateur, you can take great pictures from your site due to the closeness of the stands to the field, and therefore you must have a 200mm or 300mm telephoto lens or a similar zoom lens, and be sure to constantly follow the course of the game through your lens, as there are always surprises that come from The players through their personal behavior, as happened with the player Conren, where he seemed to warn the ball! It is clear from this snapshot that the photographer is alert and fast in capturing the movement, which came clearly, even though he used a 300 mm lens. As for the second photo, it is the ability of the body and the swaying of movement.. This also requires an ability to seize the moment, even if the photographer was late for this moment and woke her up with very ordinary reins. And without any movement taken with a 200mm lens. As for the image of McEnroe and his joy in victory, sports photographer Tony Duffy says that it is a picture that expresses the state of the victor, and although it was expected, the issue of choosing the appropriate place remains important. In Wimbledon, we can choose between two locations, either near the net or in the journalists' stand.
The photographer adds:
- I noticed in the past that the winner always turns to face the booth at the moment of his victory, so I chose the runway, even if I was in front of the net. My shot would have shown the back of the player's head and it would have been without such a good result.
Taken with an 80 x 200mm zoom lens.

Space cordon

1- Panning is the art of keeping a moving subject stationary inside the viewfinder of the camera during the exposure procedure. It is an essential skill needed by a sports photographer. We mentioned it more than once and we repeat it here for more understanding.
The art is to start the panning motion before pressing the shutter button - and to keep the motion going after the exposure.
In this way the banding comes soft.
As for these two shots, there was the additional problem of setting the pre-focus on an airspace, in anticipation of the subject, who would enter that space. The solution, of course, is to focus on a former competitor.
Encircling is a great way to get the subject out of an obstructing background. And it happened here that the moving camera turned the crowd of viewers into a colored blur ⏹