Running is one of the top sports in the world and it is a highly popular ways for people to get fit! Many people who get involved in running become obsessed with the activity as they get used to how great they feel after exercising. As the weather begins to warm up, people start to go out and do more running in groups and there are plenty of charity runs and marathons to go out there and photograph.
Running photographs are great for stock libraries but also for newspapers covering local events. If you are taking pictures with the intent of selling them to press remember that you want to capture an element of human interest – show the winners and the losers, show groups of people and the venue. Get people looking exhausted get people crossing the winning line and so on.
If you are shooting with a stock library in mind, then you need to think about what kind of pictures would sell and be interesting to buyers. You may want to get images without the focus on one person, instead focus on the crowds and movement, get pictures of people from the back view or (for example) all the feet running along.
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