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.
Volleyball is really predictable, it’s the only team sport I will promise photos of each player ahead of time. Set up for the front row and you have a 1/3 chance of getting a hit each play, then move to set up for the back row and same 1/3 chance, and that’s if you’re just picking a player to focus on at random rather than trying to react.
I shoot with wide aperture prime lenses (40, 105, 200, 300) to get maximum light and background separation, which helps.