Volleyball - Div II

[lauderdalems]

I spent last year shooting volleyball in 45 year old college gym with very poor lights using my 70-200 f2.8. I was never happy.

This year I purchase an 85 1.8, increase my ss, and could not be happier.

[lauderdalems]

Here are two more

Thanks for looking

[Aaagogo]

i feel that you need a faster SS, bump up the ISO more and use 1/500

I feel that there's a tad too much motion blur on the ball, hand and feet, that would be #1, #2 and #4

[convergent]

Good work on catching them in action. I agree with the last reply, but also understand what its like to shoot in a dungeon. Number 3 is especially nice.

[lauderdalems]

Thanks for the comments. But some of the player's body - like the feet in #4 is probably OOF. I'm shooting so close my DOF is - in come cases - about 4 inches.

I'm going to shoot some next week at a higher SS and 3200 ISO and see how that works out.

[convergent]

Having some parts of the player OOF is inevitable when shooting at f/2 and such. Just try to get their face in focus... that's the most critical part. There isn't much else you can do because of the lighting.

[lauderdalems]

Wonder how what kind of results I would get with a 70-200 2.8 IS + 2x converter shooting at 3200ISO in this gym

Probably have to manually focus.

[Eric2007]

Well if my math is correct, if you use your 70-200 2.8 w/2x tele, your aperture will go to 5.6 (2 stop loss) which means with ISO 3200, your shutterspeed will be about 1/160th if you were in the same lighting as picture #1...good luck with that! :)

Nice shots btw!