How do these look?

[MT]

Missouri high school state championship basketball action (semi's and final's)

First day with a 1DMIII and arena strobes (w/70-200 f2.8L)

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[crazyskillz07]

I think the pictures look great colorwise and such.

[ronmayhew]

Very nice work.

[dmbecker]

Outstanding ... I would love to know what your settings were. What did you "up" the ISO to?

[santabarbarapix]

Very nice!

[cstewart]

Great shots although...very minor point... a few look the tiniest bit soft on faces on my monitor (1-3) and there is more motion blur than I would have thought would happen when using strobes (ball in 1 and 2, back foot in 2). I note in the EXIF that you were at 125 or 160 ISO (can that be right??) and 1/250 shutter? Not sure how this would work with strobes but a bit higher shutter speed would have really frozen the action unless there was a synch issue?

[MT]

Thanks for the comments.

Settings as cStewart noted, were 1/250 (sync speed) @ f2.8, ISO's 125-160. I shot some ambient - 1/400 @f2.8 ISO 1000-1250.

I could have used a bit more depth of field (or better technique) - I used one up from center point focus point- to let me stack players if the opportunity presented itself - but it meant that focus was frequently on their chest instead of their faces.

Additionally, I'm not sure that some (or all) of the motion blur you are seeing isn't actually just a depth of field issue as well. By my math, I was 2 1/3 stops under ambient. (1/250-1/400 = +2/3 stop, 125-1000 -3 stops). That said, I may not have been far enough under ambient.

[namasste]

Thanks for the comments.

Settings as cStewart noted, were 1/250 (sync speed) @ f2.8, ISO's 125-160. I shot some ambient - 1/400 @f2.8 ISO 1000-1250.

I could have used a bit more depth of field (or better technique) - I used one up from center point focus point- to let me stack players if the opportunity presented itself - but it meant that focus was frequently on their chest instead of their faces.

Additionally, I'm not sure that some (or all) of the motion blur you are seeing isn't actually just a depth of field issue as well. By my math, I was 2 1/3 stops under ambient. (1/250-1/400 = +2/3 stop, 125-1000 -3 stops). That said, I may not have been far enough under ambient.

I noticed a little of what I thought was softness from my MarkII initially (thought it was all me at first) but learned here that the anti aliasing filter really works hard on these bodies. A little more post sharpening and I think these would lose most of any softness. I might have sacrificed a little DOF (say f4 and 250ISO) which would have helped any softness as well. Light looks great. Nice shots.