High School Basketball

MT Stringer

Here are a few shots from this past week at a 3A high school basketball tournament.

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Fogcity

Nice shots! Love the intensity, especially in no. 4. How are you strobing the court and what lens are you using? I have the hardest time with the lighting at our courts, not allowed to use a flash....

MT Stringer

Fogcity wrote:

Nice shots! Love the intensity, especially in no. 4. How are you strobing the court and what lens are you using? I have the hardest time with the lighting at our courts, not allowed to use a flash....

On one end of the court, I had two Alien Bee 1600's mounted on light stands and aimed at the ceiling. One was close to a white wall while the other one was up a few feet in the bleachers attached to a handrail. So, I had more light coming from one side (even though I cut the power to 1/2). Finally, I stayed on the left side of the basket and just shot what ever opportunity that came along.

I used a Canon 1D MK III w/70-200 f/2.8L IS exclusively. Over a three day period, I shot 19 games, 2500 shots with no misfires using the Skyport wireless transmitter/receivers.

ISO 320, f/3.5, 1/250 sec SS all manual.

Fogcity

Thanks, that explains the really nice color in those shots--great job!

Gringriff

Wow, these are great images. Nice action and OUTSTANDING Colors .

I like that behind the back move in #1.

Andy

MT Stringer

Gringriff wrote:

Wow, these are great images. Nice action and OUTSTANDING Colors .

I like that behind the back move in #1.

Andy

Me too, Andy. She faked out the defender and kept right on going towards the basket.

rainbow

Well-lit, nicely captured shots.

I have a distinct preference for the ones where the faces are showing (#4, 5, & 7) as the expressions add so much to the viewing. The others capture excellent basketball moments, but lose something when the face is obscured.