Columbia SC Photographer Travis Bell has been capturing college and pro sports action images since he was 19 years old. He will be sharing 25+ years of knowledge, including photography techniques, gear recommendations and camera settings tutorials on this channel and on his blog at www.thelightcurve.com. Bell served has served as a governor's photographer and official photographer for South Carolina Gamecocks athletics. He also served as an adjunct professor at Columbia International University, where he taught digital photography.
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Your lens only opens up to F/4. Invest in a lens that opens up to F/2.8. The f/2.8 lets twice as much light into the camera compared to the F/4, which is great for indoor and nighttime sports.
I have a canon ESO rebel t100 and my pasture only goes down to 4.0. I do barrel racing evenings so highly action type shots and some during the day and some at night and I have issues with the evening/night images. Any advice?
Thanks Chantal! I offer Facetime/Phone Tutorial Sessions regarding this. I can be reached through the contact page on my website at this link. www.travisbellphotography.com/contact
It could be a number of things. We offer Phone/Facetime Tutorial Sessions where we answer any photography questions you have and get the issue solved. Contact us through our website at www.travisbellphotography.com/contact. Thanks! -Travis and Staff
Hi Travis, You appear to double the Shutter Speed if indoor images are too bright, why not decrease the ISO instead to prevent noise? Also at f/2.8 would you not get images out of focus due to the shallow DOF? Thanks.
If it's sports photography, it's better to double the shutter speed so the camera will freeze the action. F 2.8 is perfect for sports. The goal is for the players(s) to be sharp and the background to be as soft as possible. This picture I made of Kobe Bryant blocking Lebron James is a perfect example. www.travisbellphotography.com/index/G0000FwKA_kghaWg/I00002LfztIg_jg4
Thats going to vary camera body to camera body. My 7d mark 2 gets noisy at 3200 and starts getting gnarly but still de noise salvagable to about 12k. Where my 1dx2 you can run a jpeg right off the camera at 12k iso and it isnt like oh boy thats rough minimal denoise its good. R3 you can REALLLY pump that iso up with minimal noise. My old t6, at 6400 iso was like a old tv getting static fuzzy all depends on the bodys ability to manage the high iso basically.
@@ReflexXTows yup, took me a while to figure out that it is just a body thing and you can't really "fix it", esp on my poor t5i, expecting much from a 10 years old camera. Now looking at the Canon 90D, I think that will be a pretty nice upgrade from the t5i
For months, I could not figure out manual mode when shooting sports and I got so frustrated shooting mediocre photos in automatic. This video SAVED me! Thank you so much for this!!! I'm very proud of the photos I take now because of this video
Recently got my EOS T7 and had no idea how to set it. Thank you for getting right to the point now I can take better photos for my boyfriend at his soccer games.
I have a cannon EOS rebel. This video was very helpful. Thank you for posting. I followed the your directions but I do have a question. My camera has a sports setting. Should I set it on sports setting or auto? Or do I leave it on manual to shoot the photos?
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at 0:42 look at his top right, ISO is yours on auto?. if yours is on auto and its dark, then reduce your shutter speed from 1/1000 to 1/500. that should help. if it doesnt help much then get another lens like the 70-200 f2.8
My canon EOS xsi only goes to f4.0 and the highest ISO is 1600. Will this still work? Is there any I can buy that would allow me to get great indoor and outdoor (under lights) sports pictures?
Thinking of using my canon 850 d cropped body to shoot indoor volleyball, my 6d with 100-400mm lens is just not producing the pics I want, I have tried multiple modes and tips with a monopod and just not achieving clear pics with the right lighting or speed. Do you shoot indoor sports with one shot instead of continuous??
Hey, Wendy, great question. I offer Zoom/Facetime or phone meetings where I can answer any questions you have about photography. Please contact me through my website at www.travisbellcreative.com
Hey, Julie, I offer phone, Facetime/Skype sessions where I can go over camera settings and any other photography questions you might have. Contact me through my website at travisbellcreative.com
I prompted chatgpt with the same problem and it gives useful suggestions as to how the other settings adjust according to our problem. And then you can test out those settings. Try to be specific about the situation in your prompt.
