Head Over Heels

While shooting sports photography in Monroe Ohio on a Saturday, I decided to take some high spped stop action pictures at the local pool. This was shaot at 1/2500th of a second.

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Letting it Fly

One of my favorite sports photograph angles is the 3rd base line on a right handed batter. When you catch him hitting the ball and taking off toward first, you've got a great shot...if you use the right frame in your series and you have a high enough shutter speed.

The this Eaton Ohio Little League game, I was shooting sports photography when I caught the batter ripping a single to right field. Shutter speed was 1/1600.

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What Shutter Speed Should I Use?

I was asked on a website the simple question of "what shutter speed do you use" to get such clear, stop action sports photographs.

Here is my answer and a simple tutorial for any up and coming sports photographer.

It's a combo of factors that make for a picture like that or any good sports photograph;

1) Quality of your glass. I use Nikkor lenses. In this case I use a Nikkor 80-200 2.8 lens
2) Of course there's shutter speed. In these pictures I use 1/2000
3) Depth of field is very important. I try to use the lenses optimal preformance aperature for sports (5.6-6.5)
4) ISO. The lower the better. On sunny days I try to stay at 200
5) And finally, focal point. I focus in on the face.

The intangibles are an understanding of the flow of the game, player tendancies, angle of vision and...a little luck!


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Walk Off Homer

One of my favorite shots of all time in sports photography is capturing the jubilation and chaos that follows a walk off home run in little league baseball.

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The Game Face

Shooting Sports Photography in Cincinnati Ohio, I captured this intense Monroe Little Leaguer with the "Eye of The Tiger", and a mouth full of Bubble Yum.

Too many beginning sports photographers think that every shot has to have the ball in it or a full body in motion shot. When it come to taking sports photographs that sell to Mom and Dad, the ones that capture the personality of the kids are the ones that become instant classics.

This picture was submitted to Capture Cincinnati 2009.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

Little League

Revisiting an older topic; When shooting sports photography in and around the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio areas, I always like to get a bunch of stock photos for my portfolio.

Pictures like this, make for great gallery headers when posting a bunch of new sports photographs.

They also seem to be favorites among the voters in the Capture Cincinnati books. This one has gottne great reviews in the 2009 book for Capture Cincinnati.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

The Dog Pile

An instant classic sports photograph. Shooting sports photography in Eaton, Ohio, about an hour north of Cincinnati and 30 minutes west of Dayton Ohio, I was in perfect postion to capture the little league tradition of the dog pile at home plate, upon a home run.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

Sheeee's Outta Here!

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Sports Diva

I was recently doing some sports photography in the Cincinnati area and Madison Ohio, when I noticed a T-Ball game going on on one of the fields.

Of all the sports photography that I shoot, nothing sells quite like the little kids. And nothing sells better than a cute candid on the field.

This Sports photograph will eventually be one of my submissions to the 2009 Capture Cincinnati Project.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

Picked Clean

Shooting sports photography in my old home town of Eaton, Ohio, I happened to run into an old softball buddy of mine by the name of Rick Richardson. It just so happenes that his son was playing in the Eaton Little League for the A's.

It's always cool to be able to grab a quality sports photograph for a life long good friend.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

Batters Eye View

One of the shots I've always liked in sports photography, weather it's a Cincinnati Reds photograph or a youth sports photograph is the "batters eye" shot. In other words, what does the batter see?

To get this shot, I slipped in behind the catcher during warm ups, after I made sure he had good control that day and let the motor drive run.

One of the keys to being a good sports photographer, in Cincinnati, Dayton or anywhere on the globe, is to have the ability to put the viewer in the game.

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295

Posted by Cincinnati and Dayton Sports Photographer Vincent Rush of Monroe, Ohio. For more information (877) 858-6295