According to Dexter Yarbrough, photographing pictures of moving subjects is a challenging and rewarding way to capture amazing shots. Whether you’re photographing your son’s baseball game, a go-kart race or a professional sports event, there are lots of great action pictures waiting to be captured. It takes some knowledge of the activity you are photographing and a few special skills but you can master them with a little practice. Take note, you have to practice them; just reading about them won’t do the trick. So dust off those cameras!
There are a few things you need to start practicing in order to see the results of your efforts. Dexter Yarbrough suggests practice focusing (in manual and AF or auto focus modes) and following the action with the camera. Practice tracking a child or pet around the yard or a park, trying to snap the shutter at the right moments. Practice panning the camera by tracking cars driving by on a busy street. When you start to feel comfortable doing these things, start taking actual pictures of these same subjects. You will be able to check on your progress and see which techniques you’ve got down and which ones still need work.
Practice and keep on practicing! Dexter Yarbrough knows it may seem difficult at first, but after a while, the mechanical aspects of using your camera for action shots will become second nature and you’ll be able to concentrate on composition, emotional moments and all the other things that make for good action pictures. For more tips from Dexter Yarbrough, check out http://www.djyphotography.com/, or follow him on twitter at www.twitter.com/brodex1965
