Sport Photographers: Specialist Stock Images
Sport Photographers. Sport Photographer directory. Current listing of Global Eye Sport Photographers. These talented professional create a variety of action sport photography on a regular basis and add quality new stock images to their collections every week. If you have a need for sports image photography, be sure to bookmark this page and call back often.
Milos Lekovic
Action Sports Photography | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
Mainly Sports and Action, also have Travel, wildlife and family
shots.
I want to specialise in Sports photography but anything that
captures the moment and tells a story in a single shot is always
of interest.
Available for various freelance assignments, Editorial, Sport,
Entertainment or Commercial.
Tom Bowker
Tom Bowker Photography
outdoor action and nature photography | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
Capturing people and wildlife in mountainous regions of North America. Action sports, wildlife, landscapes. Photography that inspires.
Quentin Lang
Horse Racing & Wildlife Images | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
I am a scientific photographer at The University of Melbourne. This involves both macrophotography and photomicroscopy. I photograph thoroughbred horse racing in Melbourne on the weekends. These are my principle areas but I also have many photographs of wildlife and nature both in Australia and overseas. I have many startrail images taken in Australia. I have an extensive library of colour transparencies and more recently digital colour images. I am available for commissioned work.
Mark O'Reilly
MOR Photography
Individual Couple Animal Landscape Photographer | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
I'm based in Adelaide, South Australia.
I can visit you in the Adelaide Metro area for individual, couple and family portraits at a time that suits you. Weekends and nights a specialty. I will Photograph Parties, Weddings and Special Occasions. I love taking photos of people and portraits, product and studio work, close up work and getting detail in a subject.
My IT background means that I have all the Technicalities under my Control especially Data and file Integrity.
Professional Integrity and dedication is Paramount to me.
Norman Herfurth
Indigo Photography
Surfing Seascapes Cityscapes Landscapes Nature tra | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
Indigo Photography specializes in Surfing, Seascapes, Landscapes
Cityscapes/ Architecture and Travel images.
Outdoor and travel photography are my strengths
Caroline Telfer
Anita Jean
Rural photographer and portrait photographer | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
As I live in a rural agricultural area in Western Australia this is evidenced in my photographs, although I am primarily a portrait photographer. I prefer to use natural light where possible, and enjoy photographing on location.
I have a portrait studio located in the small town of Darkan, in Western Australia.
My bread and butter work is studio portrait photography.
Johannes Smit
Johannes Smit Photo Art
Australian High Country Landscapes | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
Johannes' work features landscape images with
emphasis on the Australian High Country. He
specializes in producing fine prints of archival
quality which are usually ready for dispatch
within 24 hours. Although his recent images are in
high resolution digital format, he has an
extensive film library dating back to the early
sixties. Other subjects include people, events,
architecture and items of topical interest.
Fiona Harding
Fiona Harding Photographer
townsville freelance photographer photojournalism | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
Brisbane born Fiona Harding has now relocated to Townsville North Queensland. She specialises as a press photographer and her extensive portfolio covers everything from portraits - both studio and location, fashion, corporate photography, sports to events, travel, aerials and landscapes. She has published in various books, magazines, newspapers and websites through out Australia and abroad. With a career spanning for over a decade Fiona now works for News Limited in Townsville.
Mark Edmonds
Resounding Images
Resounding images of people places and events | Portfolio | Profile & Contact
General photography with basic work flow from weddings, parties, portraits, graduations and commercial asignments.Also active in the field of stock photography and am setting out to specifically shoot stock photos. Will cover all subject areas particularly within an urban context. Requests for coverage of specific subjects are welcome.
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Taking Sport Photographs - Digital Camera Tips
Taking sport photographs is not difficult at all and can make for some really nice pictures. If you are really into sports and highly enjoy watching the games or even participating in them it can be very fun and rewarding to take sports photos.
First off, taking sport photos isn't the same as the way that enthusiastic parent is taking pictures of his or her kids. Sport photos that look good are not simply pointed at the action and taken. If you take a look at most, you'll see how they end up very different looking from most sport photos regular point and shooters take.
Sports photography can be somewhat difficult especially if you don't know how to do it or have a slow eye. Most sports are very fast and have lots of movement. This, nevertheless, is easy to overcome and take really great photos. If you can learn how to flawlessly capture movement with your digital camera then you can take really great sports pictures.
When it comes to taking fast action photographs, whether they are sports photos or bird photos, there are some common tips to follow. These tips are NOT just for sports photos. You can use these tips for taking action photos of birds, lions, planes, etc.
One of the most important aspects of sports photos is the settings on your camera. If you've ever taken sports photos with a fully automatic camera you probably ended up deleting nearly half the photos. Shutter speed is a setting that is usually much manipulated with action sport photos. Another setting that is manipulated often with sports is the ISO setting.
Shutter Speed Manipulation
When you take pictures of any object in motion, the need to freeze the object or blur the object is fully made through the shutter speed. If you're taking speed motion pictures of sports you'll want to stop the motion and not have blurred subjects. This means you'll want a fast shutter speed. The shutter speed should be faster than the subjects motion. If you're taking a shot of a very fast object you'll need a much faster shutter speed than a slow moving object like a turtle.
ISO Settings
What happens when you use a faster shutter speed is that less light is let into the camera. This can be fine for somewhat faster shutter speeds, but faster speeds require some change in the ISO to allow more light exposure.
Taking sports photos indoors can provide many more challenges. Because the light is mostly artificial it'll be much harder to properly expose when manipulating shutter speeds. When taking sports photos at or above around four hundred ISO setting can be fine. Be careful when using ISO because using a very high number can make your image very noisy. Some noise is alright as you can easily remove a little noise in photo editing programs.
Besides the settings, equipment is also used for sports photos. Unless you're allowed to be on the field with the players and get close ups of them, you'll most likely be very far from the action. To get up close you'll need a high quality telephoto lens. The telephoto lens is what all professional sport photographers use and gets you to get really close and get great shots of the action.
What happens with such long telephoto lenses is that the background will get out of focus. A shallow depth of field is very common with sports pictures and even sports on television. If you watch the closer shots of individual players you'll notice how the background is very blurred.
Al Sanez has a great program that teaches you how to take better photos He also teaches people how to sell photos online.
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