Sports

Photo by AP

Sports photography is something else I have been introduced to since I came here. The multitude of sport teams and events between them gives you a big chance of shooting mostly every sport out there.

It is very tricky I can say. You need to have excellent eye-hand coordination, and also a good intuition to figure out what they key points are going to be, where the ball will go next. Sound very easy but in fact it’s not, and it requires a lot of training. Probably a good way of doing it is sticking to the same team and learning their tactics this way you are able to anticipate and get better results. This must be easy to do in a college/uni environment but if and when you become a professional photographer you won’t have that luxury, so you better be prepared. But then again there isn’t much hidden meaning in sport photography. What you see is what you get, the main idea is to capture the most interesting seconds in the game. That doesn’t mean the players for example won’t have their face flooded with emotions that you will later be able to see on the pictures. Most of time they won’t even be aware of al this, as the pressure of the game is to much, and they just play it without thinking how good they will look in a photograph.