Sports Photography - Shooting Horizontal (landscape)

A sequence of images explaining why I might prefer to shoot horizontal (landscape) rather than vertical (portrait) for certain sports or situations.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• photography
• photo
• camera
• digital
• slr
• canon
• nikon
• sports
• aperture
• shutter
• ISO
• lens

[MikeChua]

Do you happen to recall what lens and body you used for these amazing shots?

[sds4kst8]

@MikeChua - The lens was the 400/f2.8 and the body was either a Canon 1dMk2n or 1dMk2.

[sds4kst8]

@TheRubycapulong - lots of reasons it's blurred out, including the use of a 400mm lens, shooting close to wide open, and the distance between the lens/subject and subject/background.

[TheRubycapulong]

@tfole14 theyre using telephotos lens thats why or you have to use bigger aperture or small F numbers like F4,F3.5 and so on to make the background blurry.

[sds4kst8]

@majikalramseatjello - I think it's important to mention that there are several factors that come into play when trying to attain blurred backgrounds, just one of which is the aperture. Distance from lens to subject and distance from subject to background are almost equally as important.

[majikalramseatjello]

@tfole14  the lower the aperture/f-stop is the more blurry the background is. if your using a dslr put it in aperture priority and lower the f-stop as low as the lens will let you and you will get a nice blur. but that also lets in more light so if you have a low aperture lens your going to have a really fast shutter speed and low iso.

[sporty5522343]

he broke his arm in tht game i was there

[sds4kst8]

@sporty5522343 - That is too funny! Small world, indeed. Let me know if you have questions or need help with anything. Good luck!

[sporty5522343]

My son plays on the team you shot in this video... I was searching for videos to help me take better sports pics and I saw this one as one of the first on the You Tube list... small little world!!! Great shots!!! I use a Nikon D3000 and am learning a lot on-line about how to improve my sports photography... thanks for posting this tutorial!

[bindazzone]

hi i am gonna be shooting soccer in a few weeks my first time, can u pls give me some adivse, like wht mode should i be in A or SP. i would like to knw if in A mode wht is the best F# to be in and if in SP mode wht speed should i be in to freeze the moment and have the background blured. any advice will be helpfull. thax