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How to Shoot and Sell Sports Photography

How to Shoot and Sell Sports Photography
By David Arndt

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Industries and professional tips on photographing the 15 most popular sports—including football, baseball, basketball, hockey, motor sports, swimming, and soccer—make this book of interest to photographers and sports enthusiasts alike. It includes advice on which shots are crucial, where players should be positioned on the playing field, how to compensate for stadium lighting, and ways to capture moving feature shots as well as information on making money selling the images.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #901233 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

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About the Author
David Arndt is a photographer whose photographs have been distributed internationally by the Associated Press and United Press International. He is the author of Make Money with Your Camera. He lives in Greenville, Texas.

Customer Reviews

Good reference, a bit outdated4
The most helpful part of this book for me was advice on where to stand to get the best angle on the action and what lens to use for which situation. Although I know a lot about many sports, I am sometimes assigned to phtoograph a sport that I'm not used to watching, and this was very helpful.

The big drawback was that it doesn't really have enough information on the digital age photographers are now working in.

Material needs updating3
Overall an OK book, an easy read, lots of helpful information but much of the material is somewhat out of date and relates a lot to film, even going so far to say on page 32 that someday "film based cameras may be as obsolete as manual typewriters"...was hoping for more actual technique discussion, but nonetheless a nice addition to my photography library.

Superficial and outdated2
I work for a small community newspaper and have recently started to shoot sports. I was hoping for an in-depth information focusing specifically on sports, rather than general photography. In general, I was disappointed. Although the book was published in 2000, it felt like the information in it was years behind the times.

There were some elementary errors in it. For example a lens at F2.8 lets in twice as much light as a lens at F 4, rather than four times as the book states. The coverage of sports other than football, baseball and basketball was extremely superficial - just a paragraph or two. Also many photos were unsharp and just not that good. I can look at the Washington Post's sports section any day and see better photos. There was hardly any discussion of using the capabilities of modern professional cameras, which was something I was very interested in. This book may be useful for high school students thinking about going into photography, but does not have much for someone who is familiar with general photography.