Photography Fundamentals – How To Capture A Human Highlight Photo

In this day and age, Photography has been one of the best hobbies people can take up. There has been a lot of discussion regarding photography in last few years, on which subject they should point their big, shiny DSLR’s at. But there’s one subject that would interest more budding photographers right now, Sports Photography. One of the many questions on their curious minds is how to capture a human highlight film like Vince Carter, LeBron James, Dominique Wilkins and the likes. Their thunderous dunks wows the screaming audience and you would to capture that moment in your high-end digital camera but, the only thing that’s hindering you to capture that moment is your shaking hands and lack of attention because one LeBron James windmill dunk is different from the other. You have to focus yourself and delete that blurry image in your cam and jump right in to action and capture that 360, fade away jump shot of LeBron.

Luckily, for those newbie’s who just started to take pictures of their young athletic brother in one of those little league games, here’s a few Photography Fundamentals on how to make that shot a little more special.

1. Composure. You have to remain calm and try not to get jumpy every time a player attempts a reverse lay-up. For all you know it could just be a head fake.
2. Take a spot. Position your self in spot where you’ll have the best possible angle. It would be best if you could position yourself in a spot where you could actually see the player’s face instead of his number on the back of his jersey,
3. Patience. When you are focusing on a particular player, it doesn’t mean that you’ll have stop taking pictures just because he’s having an off-night. You’ll never know when that sledge hammer of a dunk or that buzzer beater’s gonna come. Always think that he is going to do something amazing every time he steps on the basketball court.
4. Shutter speed. Always consider this factor every time you choose to do basketball because some say that basketball games are fast and unpredictable. You have to set your shutter speed to high to avoid capturing the player’s motion. Always choose a wide-angle lens to capture a wide perspective of the court.
5. Lighting. Only use your camera’s flash when needed because some basketball officials won’t allow it.

These are just some of things you would like to remember if you choose to do a basketball game photography. If you really want to know more about Sports Photography, particularly basketball, just Google it up or you could just enroll in a photography class where you could ask some of the best and veteran photographers on how you could improve your skills in photography.

Lastly, if your memory card is already full of pictures. Then, maybe it’s time to print them but there’s a trick to make your pictures more fun and interesting. If you’re planning to post your picture on a blog or a sports column in your local newspaper, just put a caption to describe the picture in a hilarious and more informative way. For example Michael Jordan’s picture looking at the referee after nearly lying on the floor the caption reads, “A play of disgust or a disgusted play?” Just make your own caption to make your shots more appealing.