| This is the complete guide to success in the business of sports photography. Create the best possible images and market them for repeated sales. Learn important business secrets like how to study a team before the game, how to work with clients, and customizing your portfolio to get noticed. Always be prepared with just the right equipment and never miss a shot. Covering all major sports, this volume will teach you how to improve your pictures through optimal positioning to capture peak action, earn the best assignments, gain professional credentials, and make more money. With impressive technical information and helpful sample pictures, this book provides a comprehensive study of the many facets of photographing sports events.This is the complete guide to success in the business of sports photography. Create the best possible images and market them for repeated sales. Learn important business secrets like how to study a team before the game, how to work with clients, and customizing your portfolio to get noticed. Always be prepared with just the right equipment and never miss a shot. Covering all major sports, this volume will teach you how to improve your pictures through optimal positioning to capture peak action, earn the best assignments, gain professional credentials, and make more money. With impressive technical information and helpful sample pictures, this book provides a comprehensive study of the many facets of photographing sports events. REVIEW: “This well organized and very informative book covers all the aspects of sports photography.”—Photo-Seminars.com FROM THE BOOK: THE ESSENCE OF SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY: "Sports, reduced to its essence, is about people in competition with other people. ABC Television's Wide World of Sports slogan ("The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat") defines what sports journalism tries to convey to the fan. The most successful sports pictures illustrate these powerful emotions. Almost as interesting as a picture that shows emotions is an action picture which captures a moment in time and tells the story of the game. Peak action is extremely difficult to catch consistently, therefore much of this book is devoted to the tools and techniques that capture action pictures." EQUIPMENT: "Historically, sports action photographers used cameras ranging from point and shoot types to 4x5 inch glass plate cameras. In the hands of a talented photographer any camera can record exciting pictures. The choice of serious amateurs and professionals is the single lens reflex (SLR) camera. Professionals may carry two or three cameras, each with a different lens. Cameras and lenses are status symbols among pros. New equipment indicates high income and success. Battered equipment gives their owners the status of years of experience." THE SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS: "Competition for photography assignments is fierce at regional publications, and incredible at national magazines. While you are getting started, accept what work you can find. As your skills improve, job opportunities will improve. Few sports photographers start their businesses by selling their pictures to the national sports publications. Beginners start shooting the local sports and giving away the pictures to parents, then selling to local people and publications. The photographic enterprise is competitive, and failure or success may be dependent on factors other than talent, knowledge and equipment. Strive to be in the right place at the right time, prepared with everything you need." WHAT TO SHOOT: "Sports lends itself to many photographic styles including portraiture, action, photojournalism, fine-art, aerial and landscape. Feature pictures frequently are seen by more readers and are remembered longer than action pictures. The potential income from these shots is large, and they may garner more attention than action shots. Alert sports photographers can capture entertaining feature pictures. Dozens of potential shots happen every game. There are always people doing interesting things at sporting events." SPECS: 8.5 X11, paperback, over 50 color and b&w photos, index, appendices David Neil Arndt has been a professional photographer and writer. Hundreds of his images have been distributed worldwide by the Associated Press and United Press International. |
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