Available light basketball

KMCC

It's been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I'd break out of my lethargy by putting up a couple of shots from recent high school basketball games I've covered.

All were taken in poorly lit high school gyms - is there such a thing as a well lit HS gym? :scratch

Click on image for EXIF

ASkip

KMCC wrote:

It's been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I'd break out of my lethargy by putting up a couple of shots from recent high school basketball games I've covered.

All were taken in poorly lit high school gyms - is there such a thing as a well lit HS gym?

Hi Kent. Nice basketball pix! Doesn't look like it really matters whether the gym is well-lit if you can take pictures like that!
anna

thollawa

Great Shots!!!!

cr8ingwaves

amazed that those are AWB! Very nice.

I am going to give some varsity hoops a try tonight.
Thanks for having the exif available. much appreciated.

KMCC

ASkip wrote:

Hi Kent. Nice basketball pix! Doesn't look like it really matters whether the gym is well-lit if you can take pictures like that!
anna

Hi Anna,

I've found if I press the shutter button enough times, I'll capture a good one every now and then.

Are you about ready for some lacrosse?

David Evertsen

KMCC wrote:

I've found if I press the shutter button enough times, I'll capture a good one every now and then.

Are you about ready for some lacrosse?

Very nice stuff as always, I am having fun shooting Basketball for the time being an figuring out the lighting. Like you Kent I am so ready for some Lacrosse!! Do the kids in the games you shoot miss all the free-throws too?

KMCC

David Evertsen wrote:

Very nice stuff as always, I am having fun shooting Basketball for the time being an figuring out the lighting. Like you Kent I am so ready for some Lacrosse!! Do the kids in the games you shoot miss all the free-throws too?

Thanks for the comments.

Actually, the team that I shoot most of the time, Milton High School, is currently ranked #8 in the nation in USA Today's Super 25 high school basketball poll.

That keeps missed free throws to a minimum.

ASkip

KMCC wrote:

Hi Anna,

I've found if I press the shutter button enough times, I'll capture a good one every now and then.

Are you about ready for some lacrosse?

Yes! I just signed up to take soccer pictures to kill time until lacrosse season. (soccer is a winter sport here). Totally not the same thing though.

So do you take pictures when guys are setting up for free throws? It's always so quiet, seems like the clicking might distract the shooters no?

anna

KMCC

ASkip wrote:

Yes! I just signed up to take soccer pictures to kill time until lacrosse season. (soccer is a winter sport here). Totally not the same thing though.

So do you take pictures when guys are setting up for free throws? It's always so quiet, seems like the clicking might distract the shooters no?

anna

Soccer is a spring sport here; going on at the same time as lacrosse - which both overlap the beginning of baseball season (equates to a very busy time of the year for me).

The noise level at the basketball games that I shoot doesn't drop much just because a player's taking a foul shot; it may even go up. The crowds here get into the game early and stay with it late!

I'm hardly noticed sitting down on the baseline.

David Evertsen

ASkip wrote:

Yes! I just signed up to take soccer pictures to kill time until lacrosse season. (soccer is a winter sport here). Totally not the same thing though.

So do you take pictures when guys are setting up for free throws? It's always so quiet, seems like the clicking might distract the shooters no?

anna

I take pictures when they are setting up for free throws, I am either side of the lane can't be in it. It never gets quiet enough in the gyms I shoot to hear the shutter.. Now when I shoot some local Dance Company shows in town, you can hear my shutter but I usually stay to the side or back doing that so noone cares..

donek

Fantastic shots. I like the complete lack of floor. It looks like they are all walking on air. Are you laying on the ground to get those?

KMCC

donek wrote:

Fantastic shots. I like the complete lack of floor. It looks like they are all walking on air. Are you laying on the ground to get those?

Thanks for the comments. I always shoot basketball sitting on the floor along the baseline; usually half way between the lane and the side line.

wmstumme

Kent:

Nice work! I just went to a HS basketball game. It was a very nice, new gym--but very dim. My camera only goes up to ISO3200, and even with a 50mm f1.8, I was getting such slow shutter speeds I just put it away.

Oh well, spring is only a couple of months away. Here's a quick shot of my daughter from her last tournament just before Thanksgiving. That's probably about all my quality shooting until late Feb/early March.



Have a happy holidays...

jmphotocraft

30d!!
Funny how shots like this should be impossible with a 30D according to so many pixel-peeping spec-racing whiners online. Great shots. Looks like your 30D did well at ISO 3200, I never even dared try that with mine. Noise Ninja? DPP?

KMCC

jmphotocraft wrote:

Funny how shots like this should be impossible with a 30D according to so many pixel-peeping spec-racing whiners online. Great shots. Looks like your 30D did well at ISO 3200, I never even dared try that with mine. Noise Ninja? DPP?

Noiseware Standard at the "Weak Noise" setting. All other post-processing done in Lightroom 2.6. I also use Noise Ninja on my Mac, but prefer Noiseware.