Sports photography

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A typical sports picture.  Notice the compression of perspective and loss of depth of field due to the long lens.
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A typical sports picture. Notice the compression of perspective and loss of depth of field due to the long lens.

Sports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports. The equipment used by a professional photographer usually includes a fast telephoto lens, and a camera that has an extremely fast shutter speed, and can take several pictures in rapid succession.