Sports photography and pictures of motion have great influence on the development of applied news and artistic photography. Theoretically it’s shown different approaches of shooting different sports, and it defines the basic settings for capturing pictures from different angles, and that capturing and shooting picture is full of challenges and the precision and ingenuity given the dynamics of the conditions and subject at the time. It analyzes the beginning and development of sports photography, as such, throughout history, changing the technical settings of recording, as one sports photography, as well as photography of motion, as it was considered at the days (at the beginning). Sports photography, which is defined as photography of motion, was worked out, referring to the logic of the priority of time of exposure, as well as various special photographic techniques and syntactic principles of presentation and the emphasis on motion. Based on the theoretical analysis, we make targeted original photographs of some typical sports.