ELi5 How a cameraman at a sports event able to track a fast moving ball with such a great focus on it?
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Cameraman here.
For soccer, it really comes from practice, I can’t explain it otherwise.
Your first attempts will be awful, but with time you’ll learn to know what’s gonna happen a split second before it actually happens.
You can’t see the ball in the viewfinder, but you can recognize patterns and postures the player adopt when playing the ball.
A good trick is to stay wide when you’re still working, and leave the details to the other colleagues who will have one task at a time.
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