Girls BB

wmstumme

Haven't posted in a few weeks, so I guess it's my turn. Here are some from my daughter's rec league game.

jonh68

They look a little underexposed on my monitor, but they look sharp and clean. Good job!

wmstumme

jonh68 wrote:

They look a little underexposed on my monitor, but they look sharp and clean. Good job!

Thanks. Your critique is correct--which led to my question on your last post. I really need to start working with flashes/strobes. If you're using a mounted flash and bouncing off the ceiling, does that restrict you to shooting landscape? I'm shooting almost exclusively portrait--guess I'd have to get a mounting bracket to let me mount the flash at a 90 degree angle?

jonh68

wmstumme wrote:

Thanks. Your critique is correct--which led to my question on your last post. I really need to start working with flashes/strobes. If you're using a mounted flash and bouncing off the ceiling, does that restrict you to shooting landscape? I'm shooting almost exclusively portrait--guess I'd have to get a mounting bracket to let me mount the flash at a 90 degree angle?

I usually shoot exclusively landscape, and crop for vertical. However, my SB-800, has two axis of tilting, so it's just a matter of getting to where it points up when shooting portrait. I have found you miss shots either way in regards to portrait/landscape. For layups and featuring specific players, its great to shoot portrait. If you shoot tight in landscape, you can crop for vertical.

In that gym it looks like you have nice walls surrounding the court. Bouncing off the walls is even better in regards to fill light so turning the flash backwards is something you can try to. You may have to a custom white balance though if there is coloring on the walls as this will tint the final product.

MDalby

jonh68 wrote:

I usually shoot exclusively landscape, and crop for vertical. However, my SB-800, has two axis of tilting, so it's just a matter of getting to where it points up when shooting portrait.

In that gym it looks like you have nice walls surrounding the court. Bouncing off the walls is even better in regards to fill light so turning the flash backwards is something you can try to. You may have to a custom white balance though if there is coloring on the walls as this will tint the final product.

I have been leary of doing this thinking that the flash might be distracting to the players if it bounces into their face from teh wall.

Is this not the case?

MD

jonh68

I haven't had any complaints yet. You can try some during warmups and get feedback from players, but it's much better on the eyes than direct flash.

nipprdog

wmstumme wrote:

Thanks. Your critique is correct--which led to my question on your last post. I really need to start working with flashes/strobes. If you're using a mounted flash and bouncing off the ceiling, does that restrict you to shooting landscape? I'm shooting almost exclusively portrait--guess I'd have to get a mounting bracket to let me mount the flash at a 90 degree angle?

I've used this when bouncing off the wall behind me;