Butterfly
- Category:
- Sport & action
- Date taken:
- Exif:
- 1/320s f/5.6 ISO 3200 240mm
- Description:
- Spent all yesterday photographing a kids swim meet. I knew it was going to be a challenge going in, pools are a b**** for lighting. I knew I'd have to keep my ISO high to get a fast enough shutter to freeze the action and catch the quick movements and I thought my biggest challenge was going to be that and avoiding excessive graininess... Swimming is a very repetitive sport though, and it was almost a bigger challenge to avoid taking the same five shots over and over again.....
If anyone has any tips for shooting swimming I'd love to hear them!
(The few tips I followed yesterday were:
- shoot with a high ISO
- shoot with a fast shutter (did experiment with slow shutters to catch movement though - I need much more practice at that though)
- shoot with fast glass
and last but not least
- for the most part, shoot wide. You can always crop in later and kid's limbs are very rarely where they are supposed to be so cutting off a hand or entire arm is a pretty easy feat if you aren't careful) - Tag(s):
- butterfly Race girl swimming
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fredclarkphotography
Nice, as mentioned in the last image SS is a must in sports, but we work with what we have and this came out nice. I would also look to increase a little space ahead of the swimmer this allows them room to move into within the frame, good work
23 July 2012 -
mblum4
What do you like?
i like this image of this girl i love the exposure here,the water ,the bue colors ,it showed a good wideangle here ,very nice ,,i love the image swowing this nice sport I love the composition and how you managed this ,years ago it was extremely difficult ,,i shot an image as this with an old camera ,35 minutes and it was really a fast shot that without the technlogy we have today -the same i got right ,,but it was an odiseey-good capture
22 July 2012What would you improve?
i think the photographer here has showed very well the skill of this girl in this nice sport:swimming-