Tip for sports photography in the evening

Thursday 14 March 2019, 20:02 by Michelle Peeters | 5,923 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

We received a burning question from Devlin Jacobs, which is as follows:

My kids play football. Fast sport. I manage well during the day. But in the evening. I shoot in sports mode and sometimes need to zoom in and out.

I don't think setting everything manually is feasible. The action is already over before the setting has been made. I either get a grainy image, because of the noise, or the action is a blurry streak across the photo. How can I solve this without having to set everything first and miss the action?

We asked sports photographer Nico Delmeire for a solution, and he formulated it as follows:

To avoid having to set everything, I would set the camera to shutter priority. At least 1/640. Set your ISO value based on that during the initial metering, and then you can shoot reasonably automatically without the camera doing anything strange.

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The course is taught by professional photographer Nico Delmeire. Nico has more than 12 years of experience as a sports photographer and during that time has been allowed to photograph several important matches and finals, both at national and international level.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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