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.
I’d sing to the heavens for that kind of keeper rate, especially when inexperienced.
My first time shooting volleyball my keeper rate was just below 8%. Because of my inexperience, I did a lot of shotgun pictures.
My first game, I was taking pics for local small newspaper. I was expected to write an article to accompany the photos. After culling the photos, I fired up my writing brain. Then I released I didn’t know how many games were won (best of 3). I dod r know any players names. I didn’t know the final score of any of the games.
BIG learning curve.
Keep practicing and heed the advice given above. You will mess up sometime, we all have.
i will practise more !! My keeper rate was good but a lot of them are the same or some are not intresting enough but usable. Thank youi for the reply. I guess thats the process of learning. Fail and keep going!