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Sports shooting #8 – Evening and night games

My first year or so, I was shooting my daughter’s lacrosse team, which played on weekend afternoons. Then, when my daughter entered high school, she switched to playing games that are in the late afternoon, early evening, or night. There are significant challenges to shooting these games, and there are...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 02-18-2010
Sports Shooting #7 – My workflow and lightroom

It’s time to start diving a bit deeper. To continue along with the theme, we’re going to take a few more things away from the camera. We’re going to shoot RAW… Raw means that rather than letting the camera put JPEG images on our memory card, we’re going to have it put the data directly from the sensor...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 11-22-2009
Sport shooting #6 – Cropping

Cropping is a really simple thing that can greatly improve the quality of your images by focusing on the things that seem important. Rather than talk about it, I thought I’d go through some examples. Here’s the first shot. I like the shot – the shooter, goalie, and ball are all in focus. I don...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 11-22-2009
Sport shooting #5 - Glass

Like many people, when I first started getting into photography (or more correctly, when I started getting back into photography), I was focused on the camera. Over time, I learned that it’s less about the camera and more about the lenses, or “glass”, to use the term photographers use. It’s not uncommon...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-24-2009
Sport shooting #4 – Shoot at F4. Usually…

The following assumes that you have a basic understanding of aperture and how it affects shutter speed and depth-of-field. If you’d like a quick refresher, the following links should help: Shutter and Aperture Understanding depth-of-field Or use a search engine – there are lots of good explanations out...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-17-2009
Sport shooting #3 - Focus

Sports shots are pretty intolerant of incorrect focus. The focus software built into your camera does its best to give you crisp focus in all conditions, but since all it knows is what you’re pointing it at, it has to make some guesses and some compromises. There are a couple of things that you can do...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-10-2009
Sport shooting #2 – Field Position

Or, “Where to stand…” One of my goals in shooting sports is to get images that you can’t get as a spectator. Not only do I want to freeze the motion of the players, I’d like to get perspectives that are different from what you usually see. And I’d like to create images with as few distractions as possible...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-07-2009
Sport shooting #1 – starting equipment

In many areas of photography, you can get nice results with high-end point-and-shoot cameras (such as the Canon G series), and sometimes with a cheaper point-and-shoot. Sports photography is not one of those. For sports shots, you want: Short exposure times, so that you can freeze the player’s motion...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-04-2009
Sport Shooting

Or, “so you want to take pictures of your kids”… I’ve spent the fast few years teaching myself how to do sports photography, so I could take pictures of my daughter’s soccer and lacrosse teams. Or, to be more correct, progressing from “really bad at sports photography” to “okay at sports photography...

Posted to Eric's Arcana (Weblog) by ericgu on 10-03-2009

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