Dexter Yarbrough

Dexter Yarbrough is an avid photographer and uses Canon, Sony and Konica Minolta cameras. He has photographed weddings and other special events. He is a professional photographer who runs his own photography business and also works freelance.
Dexter Yarbrough has earned recognition and respect in the photography field and his photographs, which have been shown throughout the USA, have received numerous honors and awards in recent years.
Dexter Yarbrough has over ten years’ experience developing and managing projects in challenging, fast-paced environments. He has demonstrated ability to acquire technical knowledge and skills rapidly. Dexter Yarbrough is the recipient of many awards and has participated in numerous professional development trainings/conferences.
Capturing fleeting moments in time and helping to chronicle people’s lives is what continues to drive Dexter Yarbrough to excel and maintain his passion. He has been taking photographs for years. Dexter Yarbrough has a range of experience with portraiture, landscapes, special events, weddings and everything else in between.
Dexter Yarbrough lives with his wife and children. He enjoys studying the Bible, reading, traveling and exercising. His favorite books include the Bible and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Dexter Yarbrough was featured with 38 other successful, young black men, in the nationally recognized book, Face Forward: Young African-American Men in a Critical Age.
Photographing pictures of moving subjects is a challenging and rewarding way to capture amazing shots. Whether you’re photographing your son’s baseball game, a go-kart race or a professional sports event, there are lots of great action picturesAction waiting to be captured. It takes some knowledge of the activity you are photographing and a few special skills but you can master them with a little practice. Take note, you have to practice them; just reading about them won’t do the trick. So dust off those cameras!
There are a few things you need to start practicing in order to see the results of your efforts. Practice focusing (in manual and AF or auto focus modes) and following the action with the camera. Practice tracking a child or pet around the yard or a park, trying to snap the shutter at the right moments. Practice panning the camera by tracking cars driving by on a busy street. When you start to feel comfortable doing these things, start taking actual pictures of these same subjects. You will be able to check on your progress and see which techniques you’ve got down and which ones still need work.
Practice and keep on practicing! It may seem difficult at first, but after a while, the mechanical aspects of using your camera for action shots will become second nature and you’ll be able to concentrate on composition, emotional moments and all the other things that make for good action pictures.
Basically, there are two ways to deal with action, photographically: freeze it (to emphasize sharpness) or blur it. To freeze action, shoot at a fast shutter speed in Freeze Action bright light and set your camera’s ISO at 400 or 800. Of course, this depends upon on the subject’s speed and direction of travel and the lens focal length you’re using. To blur action, use a slower shutter speed in dimmer light and set your camera’s ISO at 100 or 200.