Photographing Tennis Matches
Set your camera to Aperture Worth and select maximum aperture. Ensure you have chose a quick enough ISO to get a shutter speed of at least 1 / eight hundred to freeze action. Pre-focus and focus-lock on the player that's serving. Confirm your camera doesn't try to re-focus as you re-frame your shot in the serve, otherwise you are sure to get indistinct players and sharp backgrounds.Forecast the action -- watch the rackets! Shoot as quickly as the player starts to swing.
If you can see the ball in the frame before you shoot, chances are it will not be in your picture! Only shoot one player at a time. It is incredibly tricky to try and shoot both ends of tennis at the very same time. You will get more winners if you focus on one end at a time. I typically target the player who is serving each game.
Respect the game and the players. Don't change position in a live point. Be quiet between plays, and particularly in a serve. Mix it up! Stop your aperture way down to f / twenty-two or so, and drop your ISO to one hundred, and try and get a shutter speed around one / fifteen second for some creative drag-shutter action blur shots. You may regularly get a great reaction shot, whether or not it is fury or party, after a very long point, or following a really dramatic return that is either in or out. Fight the urge to leap right to the LCD after a great point -- keep an eye open for the reaction! Time yourself to get the winner on the 1st shot, and if you have a fast burst rate, follow thru for some back-up. But just wildly squeezing the shutter button doesn't invariably lead to better footage -- it just leads to more of them!