24. Sports and Action Photography

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In many ways, sports and action photography is the opposite of landscape and scenic photography. Landscape photography uses wide-angle lenses; sports photography uses telephoto lenses. Landscape photography uses aperture priority and long shutter speeds; sports photography uses shutter priority and short shutter speeds. And so on.

But these two types of photography also have a lot in common. They both require a ...

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