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 that can rapidly take pictures.

Sport photography requires long lenses. In general, 200-600mm lenses are used for the reach. In professional sport photography work, Digital single-lens reflex cameras must be used, in order to achieve high rate of successive shots. That means using cameras with ability to take a minimum of 5 frames per second. In general, monopods are used as well, in order to support the camera and the heavy lenses. This minimizes the shaking of the camera.