Basketball Pictures

Dr. James Naismith invented basketball around the eighteen nineties and is now played in over two hundred countries. There is an art to taking basketball pictures and should be followed tightly or your pictures will not come out right. Basketball players move fast, no doubt about that. To capture them in motion is a lot of practice and the right kind of film and the camera makes a big difference.

We have all been to a basketball game and thought wow what shot that would be. Not talking about the shot the player made but the camera buff. To get a great picture is mostly about timing; of course the camera is good to. When is it the best time to take those basketball pictures and know they will be exactly what you were trying to capture.

If you are amateur taking basketball pictures of your kids’ team and you have a kit lens, that means the fastest aperture (a very small opening in the lens) is f5.6 at the long end, you will need to set the ISO all the way up to sixteen hundred. Then set the camera to “A”, which is the aperture priority. That way the camera will be able to select the fastest shutter speed it has. If the shutter speed is too slow, or poor hand holding of the camera will cause blurry images. So you must have a steady and fast hand to take good, clear basketball pictures.

You almost have to know when a shot is going to happen and how good you can capture it on film. Such as jump shots, free throws, and layups. Understanding the timing of these shots will greatly increase your chances of taking great pictures. Remember it is not the camera itself that will take great basketball pictures it’s the person behind the camera.

Before the game, try taking a few tests shots and play with the whit balance, trying to get the right setting for natural colors. Set the AF to continuous so you are able to follow the players as they run up and down the court jump shots, free throws, etc. Understanding the timing of these actions allows you to capture the peak moment and you can adjust for it.

You can only take pictures of what you see, so the location is upmost important. You will not be allowed on the basketball court so you will have move to different points to get the best picture. You might have to move numerous times to get what you want. Knowing the game of basketball, inside out, how the game is played, why the players do what they do when they do it will help give outstanding basketball pictures.

Basketball pictures taken by professionals are usually taken with a 35mm camera because of the portability of them. They will take the basketball pictures usually on the baseline or sideline. There they can really capture the players at their best or worse, whatever the case may be.