HS Basketball

JohnEBongo

A few shots from a recent HS basketball game. All shot at ISO6400 f2.8 and 1/500. Thanks for looking, comments welcome......John
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ian408

Love the drive in the first shot.

rainbow

These are excellent! I also went to your gallery and was impressed by the shots there, too.

My favorite is #5 with the player going against 3 defenders. BUT it looks like a "charge" to me... Your shooting angles look to be excellent as I like all of the shots displayed. Perhaps the last one feels funny because of its landscape orientation.

I am also impressed by the lack of noise at ISO 6400. I just shot some ISO 3200 with my 40D and did not like the amount of noise I encountered. Any suggestions/insights would certainly be welcome.

Great job and thanks for sharing!

timcallow

Great shots!! I too am amazed by the low amount of noise, I suppose you used a cleaner on them?

Gringriff

John,

I agree with the previous comments - very nice angles and great action as well. Where you sitting on the floor for many of these?

Also, I really love the colors you have - WB looks very good.

Thanks for sharing these,
Andy

JohnEBongo

timcallow wrote:

Great shots!! I too am amazed by the low amount of noise, I suppose you used a cleaner on them?

Thanks Tim! All PP on these, including noise reduction, was done in Lightroom

JohnEBongo

Gringriff wrote:

John,

I agree with the previous comments - very nice angles and great action as well. Where you sitting on the floor for many of these?

Also, I really love the colors you have - WB looks very good.

Thanks for sharing these,
Andy

Thanks Andy! With the exception of the last shot, for which I stood up, I was sitting on the floor for all of these shots......

Mike J

Nice capture of the action but I think they could benefit from a little closer cropping. I looked through your BB gallery and most of the earlier shots are cropped much tighter than these. Gotta ask - why the difference? Different camera setup?

arrgh406

Great shots! Do you have a favorite spot on the court? One that you find gives you a good angle?

Also, what lens were you using for these?

JohnEBongo

Mike J wrote:

Nice capture of the action but I think they could benefit from a little closer cropping. I looked through your BB gallery and most of the earlier shots are cropped much tighter than these. Gotta ask - why the difference? Different camera setup?

Mike, I am not really sure what the difference is in cropping. I think maybe I left a couple of shots a little loose to make sure I had some of the backboard or net in the shot to give a little context. Very astute observation, by the way. Thanks......

JohnEBongo

arrgh406 wrote:

Great shots! Do you have a favorite spot on the court? One that you find gives you a good angle?

Also, what lens were you using for these?

I am typically on the baseline, close to where the 3 point line hits. These were shot with 70-200 f/2.8

jpc

These are very clean for ISO 6400, especially since the noise reduction in LR is really not fantastic. What camera body did you use?