How To | Photograph Competitive Swimming

Join sports photographer, Eddie Keogh for this free online tutorial on photographing swimming athletes. This session is supported by Canon. In a how-to guaranteed to make you want to dive into sports photography Eddie will take you through the process of preparing for, and capturing the rapid action of competitive swimming races.
The tutorial will cover:
Composition
Gear and benefits of shooting Canon
Shooting positions
Camera settings for sports photography
Finding different angles
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[@WexPhotoVideo]

Amazing how little time you get to capture athletes at full race speed.

[@davet3530]

Great tips Eddie and insightful - thanks. When you say you use a button for face detection, could you elaborate on that a bit more please. There is so much customisation available on the R3 (and other Canon models) and its always helpful to see how someone like yourself sets up the camera.

[@eddiekeogh9752]

I have the subject detection turned off in the autofocus settings but I have set a back button so it comes on when I press it. This is configured via the Q (Customize Quick Controls) button. Go in there choose the button you’d like to use for it and then choose subject detection on. Im doing this off top of my head as Im away on holiday in Corfu. Hopefully Ive explained it well enough. Cheers, Eddie.

[@davet3530]

@@eddiekeogh9752 Thank you Eddie.

[@NikCan66]

Great tips and tricks

[@WexPhotoVideo]

Thanks for tuning in

[@NikCan66]

@@WexPhotoVideo so enjoyable I will re watch

[@SteveMitchell-bt8ez]

I like your video, nice information. But, I have to call you out on one thing. A 1.4 extender on a 400mm makes it a 560mm, not 600.

[@christill]

I feel like seeing all this heavy and bulky gear is a great advertisement for Micro Four Thirds. I really don’t see the benefit of this stuff when 99% of people won’t be able to tell the difference anyway. But in terms of the actual photography and the tips themselves, I thought it was really good.

[@davidsherrington59]

That's why you're not a pro photographer. Pros shoot full frame for dof

[@christill]

@@davidsherrington59 Pros use MFT. Amateurs use full frame, and the other way round.

[@christill]

@@davidsherrington59 That’s a pretty silly thing to say.