How To Photograph Any Type of Youth Sports Part 2/3?

With the low light available indoors, photography can turn out challenging. With a few gears on hand and a little bit of advice, you’ll see how much easier indoor photography can be.
    Set your ISO setting to the maximum. By doing so, your shutter speed options will also increase. Always have your ISO at its maximum level and do compromise with its file quality. Otherwise, you may want to have your shutter speed at its lowest to your subject in motion. The slowest speed that you would want to go to is 1/250th per second. If you were to go lower than that, you will encounter motion blur.
    When you have your camera at its lowest shutter speed, you will have to discover the still moment of the kids’ peak movement. This is very important as it creates a really great picture of youth sports. Capture images at 1/500th per second when the lighting is good. However, if you happen to be outdoors and the light is good, using a fast shutter speed of 1/1000th per second will ensure you great, sharp images of moving subjects.
    You may also want to consider using a wide-open aperture.  When light is good indoors, opt for the widest opening your lens aperture can go for. By doing so, you can get hold of the fastest shutter speed for the right exposure. Backgrounds will not be in focus, creating fewer distractions, hence resulting in a really good picture. The widest lens opening is the one with the lowest “f-number”.
    When capturing images of sports equipments at floor level, add a Canon Speedlite to your camera. This will help illuminate the subject and avoid motion blur. With both Canon Speedlite and EOS camera combined into one, you can turn on the hi-speed sync setting to be able to raise your shutter speed to over 1.250 seconds when in manual. Just make sure that you aren’t too far away from your subject.  Otherwise, the subject will freeze and end up being secluded from a nicely blurred background. This is because the flash is faster than the shutter.
    Try these tips out. They should be perfectly handy for you as they are for me. Don’t forget to look up for the upcoming How To Photograph Any Type of Youth Sports Part 3/3 blog post.