Kicking off the NCAA Basketball Season

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These look great. What ISO were you shooting with?

Thank you!

With the exception of the first they should fall between 1600 and 6400 ISO, I had a few at 12800, but just wasn't pleased with the results. I used a 7D and 5D3, both in mRAW. I tried to keep the exposure at about +1/3 and pull back the highlights rather than trying to push the shadows in the faces. Which airing on the over exposed side was a help as the court has hot and dead spots and the cycling florescent lights make the image to image exposure fairly inconstant. Shutter was in the 1/1250-2000 range, f2 on my 50 and 85, 2.8 on the 16-35 and f4 (wishing for f2, or even 2.8) on the 70-200. Auto ISO most of the time, but setting it manually if I noticed it was starting to under expose.

Looks like for some reason Lightroom stripped the EXIF on the women's photos, sorry about that; I need to check what export setting got bumped there.

Good action, I hope I can start basketball season this well.

To me the highlights look a bit over exposed still. I think you have 1/3 or 2/3 of a stop more light to work with.