Photographing Indoor Sports: The Right Settings, Gear, and Tips for Shooting Basketball, Martial Arts, and Other Low-light Sports
by Alan Hess
Lenses
The real advantage of a DSLR camera system over a point-and-shoot camera is that you can change the lens, selecting the best one for the situation. In big sporting events on television, you will see photographers with huge lenses on the sidelines. These lenses allow the photographers to not only get close to the action but also shoot in low light. The problem is that these lenses are very expensive.
An advantage to shooting the sports covered in this book, with the exception of football, is that they happen in pretty small areas. This makes it possible to get great action shots without needing to spend $10,000 on a very long lens. Sports such as boxing, martial arts, and even basketball can be shot with a 50mm lens, which can be bought ...
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