Mastering Professional Sports Photography

A professional sports photography course built from the Dean's guide to the craft. It covers what sports photography really is as a branch of photojournalism; knowing the rules of a sport well enough to own your shooting position and apply the visual rules (thirds, bokeh, subject separation); training reflex and muscle memory until the camera answers without thought; reading an athlete's signals to anticipate and time the peak moment; freezing action and panning with the right shutter speed; the telephoto and wide glass, fast bodies, and continuous autofocus the field requires; composing and lighting the story — including the emotion after the whistle; and the professional workflow of fast culling, photojournalist-ethic editing, captioning, deadline delivery, accreditation, and editorial-versus-commercial rights. Culminates in delivering a captioned mini-package of a real or staged event.