How to Shoot and Sell Sports Photography (Paperback)

by David Arndt (Author) "Sports, reduced to its essence, is about people in competition with other people..." (more)
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Product Description
Professional tips on photographing popular sports make this book of interest to photographers and sports enthusiasts. It includes advice on where players should be positioned on the playing field, how to shoot in stadium lighting, ways to capture moving feature shots, and selling the images.

About the Author

David Arndt is a photographer whose photographs have been distributed internationally by the Associated Press and United Press International. He is the author of Make Money with Your Camera. He lives in Greenville, Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936262729
• ISBN-13: 978-0936262727
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,091,236 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Superficial and outdated, August 19, 2002

By A Customer

I work for a small community newspaper and have recently started to shoot sports. I was hoping for an in-depth information focusing specifically on sports, rather than general photography. In general, I was disappointed. Although the book was published in 2000, it felt like the information in it was years behind the times.

There were some elementary errors in it. For example a lens at F2.8 lets in twice as much light as a lens at F 4, rather than four times as the book states. The coverage of sports other than football, baseball and basketball was extremely superficial - just a paragraph or two. Also many photos were unsharp and just not that good. I can look at the Washington Post's sports section any day and see better photos. There was hardly any discussion of using the capabilities of modern professional cameras, which was something I was very interested in. This book may be useful for high school students thinking about going into photography, but does not have much for someone who is familiar with general photography.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An extremely disappointing book., July 20, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Rota, Spain) - See all my reviews

Why can't I rate this book with 0 stars? Every time I look at this book, I can't help thinking, "Did I really pay 25 dollars for this?"

It appears that Mr. Arndt put together a small collection of 1970's photos on a whim and jotted a couple lines of useless information to accompany them. One example is his suggestion to wear non-slip shoes when taking photographs at swim meets. No suggestion on technique or composition, just the shoe advice. The only sports covered in any detail at all were baseball and football, with just a few helpful tips for the most inexperienced photographers.

The only section of this book which I found to be vaguely informative was the chapter on the legalities of selling pictures. Too bad there was not enough information on picture taking to allow one to reach the selling stage.

One redeeming quality would have been the few full-page color photos included, however these were all either out of focus or just poorly printed. Please do yourself a favor and spend the 25 bucks on a few rolls of film.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't cover the compleate title subject, July 18, 1999

By A Customer

How to shoot and sell sports photography is not what the title suggest. The subject is shooting Collage sports, not how to get in to the games and who to sell to? The author must be an established sports photographer for a news service or newspaper and as the sell part of the book fall way short....