Top 10 Tips on Shooting Football from SI"s Peter Read Miller

Have you ever wanted to photograph football? Peter Read Miller offers invaluable tips on shooting football, from what to bring to where to stand, who to talk to and how to plan
Peter Read Miller has been photographing athletes, events and the sporting life for more than 40 years. He is has worked as a staff and contract photographer for Sports Illustrated for more than 35 years. His images have appeared on over 100 Sports Illustrated covers.
His editorial clients have included: Time, Life, People, Money, The Associated Press, Playboy, Runner’s World, Newsweek, USA Weekend and The New York Times. In addition to covering 9 Olympic Games and 40 Super Bowls, Peter has shot 14 NBA Finals. He has covered the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Basketball Final Four, and the Men’s and Women’s World Cup Soccer Finals.
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Peter Read Miller, Sports Illustrated iconic photographer for an incredible workshop discussion of sports photography from September 12-16, 2018 in Knoxville, TN. You'll shoot football, including the Tennessee Volunteers, and much more, all with top of the line cameras and lenses by Canon USA. The workshop is sponsored by Canon, Western Digital, ThinkTank, Dynalite and Hoodman. www.peterreadmiller.com/worksh...
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[@AlexChambersXYZ]

8:12 Focusing not on the action, but on everything else is a great exercise. Always appreciative of you sharing your tips and knowledge Miller. Thank you

[@stevepuddlejumperpilot6062]

love this video and your presentation. learned a lot. thank you!!

so much value. I wish we were in Matrix so I could just upload it all to my brain.

[@artnelsoncreative]

Absolutely, one of the best, most professional, and useful tips for shooting football. A master class for football photographers. Thanks so much!

[@robertr3246]

Thank you for the great tips and reminders! Get low... shoot fast... and have fun.

[@Eagle1349]

Thank you for sharing your years of experience!

[@turnerx5]

Great stuff PRM! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@jamesogara2219]

Superb

[@JMHSPhoto]

Again, thanks for posting all of this content Peter. Looking forward to all you can offer us.

[@keithr2835]

So much wonderful information. Thank you for making these videos!!

[@sonnybowman]

Great stuff! Loved this one.

[@jacquesjohnson639]

EXCELLENT!!

[@Butterfun97]

As a college photojournalist these tips helped quite a bit

[@kentaufderheide8454]

I just watched your video on shooting soccer again and realized that you did talk about aperture priority as your mode of choice for soccer. So, scratch that question off the list. Thanks.

[@tmightyj]

Thank you for this! Really great info on my favorite sport to shoot. I would love to see a video on post processing. I have culling & captioning pretty well down in Photo Mechanic but would love to see how you do cropping, sharpening and resizing for output.

[@user-se4yt1ei3f]

Thank you for your lessons, I live in Russia and we have no one to shoot and do not understand how to shoot American football, but there are good teams. And thanks to you, I'm getting better every time! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@MLeeMedia]

You might not have American Football, but surely you have other sports? Don't think pro, think local, amateur games.

[@AndyGlavac]

Peter great tips. I love the idea about giving myself an assignment what knee pads do you recommend I have tried a bunch but nothing great.

[@lauraortiz3837]

Thank you for the insight! Much appreciated. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind answering a question about focusing. For example, let's say the Rams are in the red zone. Todd Gurley breaks through the line of scrimmage and is headed right towards you. You are set up in the corner of the end zone with a 70-200mm. Can you adjust the focal length on the fly while tracking and maintaining focus? Or, would you keep the lens at a fixed distance? Thanks again...

[@juliosanchez6677]

Hey Peter thanks for all the info shared, question: What mode do you shoot in TV ?

[@ronaldwise6563]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of sports photography. How can I become a sports photographer for sports Illustrated?

[@JGZphotography]

Canon anti-flicker does NOT correct color due to cycling lighting. what it does is to pause the shutter until sufficient lighting is available despite the color rendering of the cycling lights. Of course, with over 100 lights in stadiums, they do not flicker synchronously. LED lighting is best for steady white light. I always leave the anti-flicker disabled-I don't ever want my shutter to pause during a peak action moment. I will correct the color mismatch in post.

[@photodan24]

Thanks for passing on your experiences. When a team is in the red zone, do you ever shoot from behind the line of scrimmage, to better show the face of a receiver catching a TD pass or do you stay in the end zone corner for a possible running back score? What goes into your decision-making process in the red zone?

[@kentaufderheide8454]

Great video. I have a couple questions. I don't shoot much football but I do shoot a lot of soccer. You mentioned that you want the sun to the back of the players when you shoot football. I always thought when I shoot soccer I should have the sun behind me so it will illuminate the players faces. Is that wrong? Also, do you shoot in manual or aperture priority mode. And would that change for a day game or night game. Well since I'm asking I ask one more. I have a choice to shoot with a single focus point or a group of 9 points. Which one would you choose. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Again, great video. All of them are really informative.

[@peterrm11]

Aperture priority for day usually manual for night.Sun behind the players when it is high. Football players wear helment, as do baseball players and golfers wear caps or visors.. High sun casts nasty shadows on their faces. Soccer players play bareheaded, so you can get away with more high light.depending on your lens, I'd probably go with 9 points unless you are super tight.

[@kentaufderheide8454]

Thanks so much for the information. If I could ask you just one more question it would be very helpful. What did you mean when you said "you can get away with more high light depending on your lens?" Thanks.

[@craigc7708]

@@kentaufderheide8454 If you have a lens that goes goes down to 2.8, then that will allow more light into the sensor. As a result, you can "open the lens" and still use a faster shutter speed. look up Exposure Triangle online.

[@SundayRacers]

Funny that the gear videos get 10 x as many views when the shooting tips make more difference to your photos than any piece of gear will

[@MLeeMedia]

Amen to that. Gear helps, but if you don't know what you're doing...