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Dear Subscriber,
Summer is about vacations, backyard barbeques and...for many of us...Little League baseball.
Here are a few tips you might try if you're the family sports photographer.
Youth sports can also be very lucrative for professional photographers.
We'll show you how easy it is to produce memorable...and profitable...montage enlargements.
Be sure to take advantage our June sales on photo books and montage prints – specifics at the end of this newsletter.
Enjoy your Summer!
Dale
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 Tip #1: Learn Your Camera's Menu
Learn how to operate the aperture and shutter speed settings. For any degree of sophisticated photography it would be helpful to fully understand your camera's advanced controls.
Everything should be natural to you before you pick up your camera and begin to shoot.
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Tip #2: Know the Sport
The better you know the sport, the better you can position yourself to capture the best images.
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Tip #3: Give Yourself Warm-up Time
Get to the game early enough to photograph the players warming up. It’s a good time to get in sync with your camera. Just like the players, use this pre-game time wisely.
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Tip #4: Be A Director
Move your subjects around and try different zooms and angles rather than simply taking straight-on shots. You can dramatically change the look and feel of your images.
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Tip #5: Become A Student of Photography
Look at other people’s work. You can learn a lot by trying to replicate the looks achieved by other photographers.
You can begin your "research" right in the sports section of your local newspaper. See how the pros position themselves and take their shots. Then, apply the same techniques to your pictures.
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Tip #6: Analyze How Pros Take More Difficult Photographs
If you’re trying to achieve a complicated shot, try to reverse engineer it. How did the photographer do that shot? Were there extra lights in it? What was the angle?
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Tip #7: Think About What You Might Have Missed
Before you stop shooting a particular subject, ask yourself:
“What haven’t I captured?”
Can you shoot higher? Can you shoot lower? Can you move to the left or to the right? Can you change lenses, zooms, field positions or ISOs? Can you capture the action from a different angle and produce more dramatic pictures?
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Tip #8: Learn the Athlete’s Tendencies
For example, if you’re shooting a left-handed hitter, you want to be on the third-base side so he or she is facing you when batting.
Pay attention to the individual styles of the children when they are up at bat or in the field. Use that knowledge to anticipate and prepare for those great shots.
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Tip #9: Think About How You Want the Picture to Look
With a Little League game, you may not have a lot of choices. But, you can create better images by thinking in advance about what you want.
Sometimes you can make a big difference with a small change. It could be as simple as using a supplementary flash in the middle of the day to open up the shadows.
Remember, you never know what will happen, where, or when. So stay alert and be ready to move where the action is to make sure you get that perfect shot.
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Tip #10: Use Multiple Pictures to Tell Your Athlete's Story
Individual pictures are great. But, you can use multiple pictures to tell the whole story. Here are a several ways:
- Photo Books (for amateurs and pros on iPrints.com) give you the ability to break the game down to its component parts.
- Include "posed" candids and portraits of the player(s).
- Use pictures taken during practices and warm-ups.
- Highlight action shots taken during the game.
- Add type to tell the story.
- Optional - Use pictures of the player with his or her family for a great family keepsake!
Note: Our Real Photo Books are printed on Kodak photographic paper for true pro-quality.
- Montage Prints allow you to place multiple images on a single enlargement.
- Available through our iPrintsPro.com site for pros and advanced amateurs
- Automatic Layouts - When you click on the Montage button in our ROES software it will set up a picture layout for you. You just specify the number of images you want across and down on your print and the program does the rest.
- Choose Lustre or Metallic paper...for prints that pop
- Easy instructions
- Great for home decor
- Collage Prints are free-form, multi-image designs you can create yourself.
The designs you create on Montage and Collage prints can be saved for future use.
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Our June Sale:
20% Discount on Photo Books
25% Off All Montage & Collage Enlargements...Including Metallic
We're going to make it easy for you to use multiple images to tell your sports story.
- Photo Books - Designing and ordering a photo book is a snap! Follow our simple instructions and graphics to create a beautiful book. Prices on our Real Photo Books have been reduced 20% for the entire month of June!
- Montage and Collage Prints -
- Please click here to download our free ROES design program
- Our ROES program is recommended for professional photographers and advanced amateurs with strong computer skills. Amateurs should use our consumer-friendly iPrints.com service.
- Suggested print sizes are 11" x 14" to 20" x 30".
- Prices will show online at our regular prices but will be reduced in our lab by 25% prior to billing.
I promise to give you top-quality, color corrected prints of all your photographs. You snap the pictures ... we'll do the rest!
Best wishes,
Dale
Dale Farkas
President, iPrints.com & iPrintsPro.com
(Online services of Dale Laboratories)
Questions? Call (800) 327-1776. We're here to help!
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