Marcel Laemmerhirt

Most of the time I don’t use a tripod. When I shoot action, I have to move fast and a tripod would hinder me doing it. When I shoot with multiple cameras, I use small and light tripods on location.

This question would fill a day or even more time to answer but I try to be short. Freezing fast action means using fast shutter. If you like to have everything sharp in your image, you’d use a fast shutter speed. But you can also create a more artistic photo with a slow exposure. For example, a panned shot of a fast car or a running person.

The choice of aperture determines the depth of field.
Expensive objectives allow you to work up to an aperture of 1.2. Common objectives have 2.8 or even more as smallest aperture. I love my 35mm 1.4 and 105mm 1.4. Both lenses are amazing. Most of the time I shoot with aperture 1.88 or 2.0 to get this amazing look. Perfect for lifestyle and portrait photography.

Good question! We have already seen many good pictures of different sports, so it is very difficult to beat them. But there are still possibilities to be creative. For example –the camera angle and position. During sport events it is not allowed to stand anywhere you want. On big sport events you get placed on one location and you are not allowed to leave this place unless you have a special permission. It can be for safety reasons. As event photographer is always good to get the AAA pass (access all areas). With this pass you can almost go wherever you want. That means, in turn, you get better camera positions and maybe better and different pictures because no one else is allowed in that spot.

Preparation is the most important part. All the time. My photography is built on it. In most cases you won’t have a second attempt but very often I know what will happen where so I can prepare multiple cameras in different locations and use different lenses with focus on the action. This way I make sure that I have more than just one image of the action in the end. I would like to explain in more detail how I trigger all cameras in the same time.

Most of the time I use 3 cameras. The main one is in my hand. A radio (pocket wizard) is mounted on the hot shoe of my camera. The other two cameras are fixed on a tripod set up in different locations. Sometimes about 100m away from my position. Those cameras are also connected with an extra radio (pocket wizard) and set on burst mode (sequence Mode) with about 10 frames per second. As soon as I trigger the camera in my hand, the other two start to fire as well. I have a tip for you. If you mount a little flash on the remote cameras you can check from far away if the cameras trigger because you will see the flash. The flash has no impact on the picture. It is just to make sure the second and third camera work.