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SportsShooter.com, a popular online resource for sports photographers, has announced that it will shut down this week on March 15.
As reported by PetaPixel, SportsShooter.com's origins can be traced back to an email newsletter that USA Today photographer Robert Hanashiro began in 1998. Hanashiro shared his thoughts...
Alongside a trio of new RF-mount lenses, Canon has also announced the development of an all-new, high-performance R-series mirrorless camera. The upcoming Canon EOS R3 will sit at the top of Canon's EOS R-series mirrorless camera lineup as the company's most advanced, most...
Nikon has today announced the D6, their new flagship sports camera and successor to the popular D5 from 2016. Along with this news comes word of two new Z-mount Nikkor S lenses, a 20mm f/1.8 prime and a 24-200mm f/4 zoom, which begins to fill out their growing arsenal of high-end Z lenses for Z6 and Z7 photographers out...
Photographer David Bergman has an ongoing video series for Adorama TV, "Two Minute Tips," in which he shares tips and tricks from his expansive career as a professional photographer. We have previously covered some of the videos in the series and today we'll look at his latest video, "Eyes Wide Shut."
No, Bergman's new...
This Saturday marked the 143rd running of the historic Kentucky Derby and the odds-on favorite Always Dreaming crossed the finish first. Veteran photographer and Nikon Ambassador Bill Frakes was there to capture all the action. He brought with him nearly 50 Nikon DSLR cameras, including Nikon D500, D810 and D5 bodies and...
Update: We've added more information about our experience with different AF modes, keeper rates, more details about image sharpness, and more!
The Sony A9, the camera maker's higher-end flagship full-frame mirrorless camera, made its long-awaited debut last week in...
Olympus is sending one winning photographer and a guest to Whistler, British Columbia for the 2017 World Ski and Snowboard Festival for three days and tickets to the 2017 Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown event on April 13 in Whistler. In addition, the winner's photography will be shown during a slideshow presentation at...
We're back with more Canon 5D Mark IV review content! Rather than having the same person do a full Field Test on the camera, we've changed things up a bit, boxing up the gear and sending it north to our trusty NYC-based writer and photographer, Eamon Hickey. In his just-published 5D Mark IV Field Test Part II, Eamon...
There are few sporting events that create as much buzz as the Super Bowl. This year’s edition, Super Bowl LI, will be broadcasted on FOX. FOX Sports has announced that they will be utilizing an array of interesting camera technology for the big game, including field-of-vision perspective.
Teaming up with Intel, FOX...
Sports photography is about capturing the iconic sports moments that sometimes transcend the field of play altogether. Shooting the timeless images can come with more physical wear and tear than the soreness that accompanies lugging a massive exotic telephoto lens around for hours. Have you ever seen a photographer on a...
For many sports fans, their beloved memories are best represented by iconic images. Sports photographers like Mark Leech are responsible for capturing the highs, lows and sometimes crucial social context surrounding what are ultimately children’s games. Leech is a United Kingdom-based soccer (football as it’s known in...
Sports photographer David Berding is based in Minnesota, which means that he shoots his fair share of hockey. Typically when photographing hockey, you shoot through a small hole in the glass at ice level. This affords you a great look at the action, but it means that many photographers end up with similar shots captured...
Payton Ruddock is a commercial sports and portrait photographer. In addition to his photography skills, he's also a triathlete and snowboarder himself, so it's fitting that he photographs athletes.
He got his photographic start shooting cycling and recently thought it would be a good idea to revisit the subject. If he...
We have closed the book on the Rio Summer Olympics, but there were images captured during the 16 days of competition that will live on for a long time. Agencies like Getty, the Associated Press and more sent huge groups of photographers, editors and technicians to Brazil to ensure that they would capture the best...
As the sporting world closes the book on the Rio 2016 Olympics, the images captured during the 16 days of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad will live on. How were these images captured? We know that around 70% of photographers captured the Olympics with Canon gear and that zoom lenses were a popular optic of choice. We also...
If you've watched any of the Rio Olympics, you've surely seen a ton of white lenses along the sidelines of the biggest events. A Canon survey from earlier this week found that an average of 70% of professional photographers on assignment in Brazil are using Canon equipment. Canon Professional Services (CPS) along with...
Getty Images photographer Al Bello is well-known for his sports photography, having been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fox Sports, Yahoo Sports, New York Times and many more publications over his career. At this year's Olympics in Rio, Bello's 11th Olympic Games, he enlisted the help of underwater robots.
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Sports photography is not simply about capturing a particular moment in a game or match, but it can also be about creating art. Patrick Sauer writes for Signature Reads that sports photographers have often lived as underappreciated artists, visionaries who have given us still frames that perfectly immortalize our special...
Yesterday we saw how the Sony A7S performed recording a rocket reentry. Today we get to see its successor, the A7S II, tackle nighttime mountain biking.
In the cool video below, created by adventure photographer Justin Olsen for Red Bull, world-ranked mountain biker Cody Kelley takes to the slopes of Utah armed only...
Sports photographer David Bergman has a few tips to help you improve your sports images, whether you're photographing professional athletes or your kids. The Two Minute Tips video below is one of the 25 short videos Bergman has made for Adorama TV and you can see the full list of videos here.
One of the most important...