My name is Eddie. I am a sports photographer and my friends at Canon have asked me to go through a
few techniques that we would use in our job. Obviously, we can't do them out and about
as we normally would, as we're at home, a bit like yourself, so we're going to try and do some that
stuff at home in the garden and maybe down the fields when we take the dogs
for a walk. So grab your kids, grab your pets
and let's get started.
Okay, so let's think about the kind of angle you shoot at and whether
you're using a very nice camera or even your iPhone, it really matters what kind of
angles, it will make all the difference. So I'm gonna shoot my daughter just
running towards me very slowly in the garden. In the camera, I've set it up in AI servo.
Because I want the focus to follow her all the way, so every frame I take focus is
going to reset and follow all the way in tracker as she runs towards me. I'll use
spot focus. I could use the zonal focus on this because there's only one person, you
could swap or focus up right probably focus on their chest and track her all the
way as she comes towards me. Okay, so let's give that a go. 200 ISO. This is
1000, F2.8 against the light, so let's take a few frames and then we change our
angle see what difference that makes.
This will just make the picture a little more dynamic from this angle. Here we go.
While we're out walking doggie, we're going to have a practice of panning. Okay, so panning is good
when you have a subject that's kind of moving at constant speed.
You can pan with the camera, really steady and get a really nice effect whereby the subject hopefully is
mostly sharp for this one part that really needs to be sharp and the
background, as I've centered the movement, has nice streaks.
So rather than a long lens, which we've been using for the panning, maybe we
should use a nice wide angle lens. So this is a 16-35mm, F2/8.
This really gives a lovely wide perspective but then you can rest this
on the floor and actually view the viewfinder there, so you're getting the right frame.
You can get one of one of the kids running through there as
they run across, which is so low, it will look like they're literally really high off
the ground and you've got some lovely blue sky backgrounds.
So in summary just, a really simple tips to help shoot some action;
get really low, as low as you possibly can, it just gives that slightly more
dynamic angle to your pictures. Fast shutter speeds at least a thousand of
second. Think about your backgrounds, it is really important because if it's a messy
background it's going to take your eye off your subject. The panning is
it's a great way to illustrate movement. Shutter speeds, I tend to go with
around a 40th of a second, but that's the beauty of this kind of thing, we're just playing
around with it, we're practicing, we're learning. So you can go a little higher than that
or you can go lower. It's really fun if you can get down to a 15th of a second.
Just remember that one part of that really needs to be sharp
so we can make it look like the panning is working. Think about the background,
try and pick a colourful background, some nice colours in the background
that will really street really nicely. If you're using the panning on this particular lens,
I've been using the 70-200mm that's got a stabilizer on that, so I put
stabilizer mode two. That's the one shooting it horizontally. Remember to keep
really smooth, really smooth through that pan.
Be comfortable but carry on all the way through. Don't stop when you think it's
the best moment, carry that pan all the way through really smooth.
There you. No excuse. You've got the time. Get out there and try few of those techniques, yeah.
Okay, signing off. Eddie Keogh. Canon ambassador. My back garden.