Hello everyone. Yesterday it was the first time for me shooting sports. It was Volleyball. How the *** do professionals get solid photos with all the faces, people running around, athletes getting in your shot while you are focused on a subject, limited space etc? I took around 1300 photos. Only like 300 of them are usable. It was extremely tough anticipating the ball and trying to capture the action. And when I did… the faces… Oh my god. And not only that… it was women playing…you can imagine how many of the photos they will like. Some are pretty good athletic photos not gonna lie. And to my defense I had only one lens a 24-105 f/4. I am waiting for the new Sigma for Sony mount. I think it will help a lot. Anyway I would love some advice. Thank you.
Edit: By saying it was women I wasnt trying to be sexist at all. But my girlfriend was playing and when see saw the photos she would look at every minute detail of her body.
The professionals only show us the keepers.
Volleyball isn’t easy. Try focusing through the net, ha ha. Tip- focus on the legs under the net.
Floating ISO as someone else mentioned can be help or hinder. The place I shoot has those LED video boards at the sideline tables. Get one of those in a shot and everything goes dark.
When you shoot, ask yourself what you are shooting. Faces? Bold action shots? One particular player? Your why doesn’t have to stay the same for the whole game. You can mix it up the entire game. If you want to get everything you’ll get nothing.
Keep shooting and you’ll get better.
Thank you for the tips! i tried to do that but the more i thought the more i was loosing all the action because i am not quick enough yet!! And yes from one side they had windows and most of my scenes were really dark.