Sports Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

This guide will teach beginning photographers how to take great sports photos, whether at a soccer tournament or college football game.

- Teaches photography basics such as composition, focus, lighting, and depth of field.

- Offers tips on composing shots, anticipating action, and determining the best shooting position for capturing great sports images.

- Features beautiful images, clear design, friendly and knowledgeable voice.

At its best, sports photography is about motion and emotion. Style and scene. Place and purpose. In Sports Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, professional photography Bill Frakes shows photographers how to capture these elements in their images - whether at a little league game, a track and field meet, or a college-level basketball tournament. This book will walk readers through the basics of getting the right photography equipment and then move into key techniques of sports photography - understanding lighting, handling composition and focus, and timing peak action. It will also explain how to choose a shooting position on the field of play, identify the defining moments away from action, and learn the etiquette of covering live sporting events. The book then breaks down the shooting processes of specific sports step-by-step, outlining the challenges and demands of each and showing how to isolate individual athletes in motion. Beautifully illustrated with large, vibrant photos, this book teaches readers how to take control of their photography to get the sports images they want every time they pick up the camera.