The Basketball Thread!!! From Pee-Wee Leagues to the NBA... Post'em up and share!!!

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Was that second shot a charge or a block??????

Pigpen101 wrote in post #18803225
Was that second shot a charge or a block??????

Good eye! It was a charge!

Ltdave wrote in post #18803021
i see the exif here. i cant quite match that (i shot my first bball game in 40 years tonight, my daughter's HS team. the last time was Junior High School game for the yearbook and i wasnt that good then!) as far as exposure but i can get it correct...

i shot it with a 24-70 f2.8 L II at 2.8, and since going to the digital world ive been using single point focusing. what are you using for focus points? where do you focus? i assume youre using AI Servo?

Ltdave

I do use single, center point auto focus in Al Servo and focus tracking set fairly sensitive. I choose focus priority over shutter release priority.
I was very impressed with the way the 6D handles it considering it's not a "sports" body. I'd like to have the 24-70mm you have for under the net but I blew my budget on 2 6Ds, it will be my next purchase. Also quite impressed with how the Nifty Fifty handles the action.

Also, I use back button focus so all my shutter button does is meter & release. I focus on the chest of the player which sometimes ends up with the face out of focus, but it usually gets it sharp. The head seems to move too quickly.

Now, let's see some of those pictures you took last night.

Nice work Brian!

May I suggest running your ISO up to 3200 to bring up the exposure just a bit? You can leave the shutter speed alone if it is giving you crisp detail during the action. You can then post process these back down if they are a bit too bright, but gives you some processing latitude that way with no real impact on noise.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #18803283
Nice work Brian!

May I suggest running your ISO up to 3200 to bring up the exposure just a bit? You can leave the shutter speed alone if it is giving you crisp detail during the action. You can then post process these back down if they are a bit too bright, but gives you some processing latitude that way with no real impact on noise.

Thanks! I check out and admire a lot of your work so it means a lot.

I’ll give it a go next game out where I will be back in a high school gym so lighting won’t be as good and I’ll be forced to push up the ISO anyway. Using your advice, I’ll experiment with how high I can push it or maybe just auto ISO it and set exposure compensation up a bit.

Tough loss at home yesterday.

This local team won't be the playoffs, lost too many at this point I believe. They won this game though.

bbqkid8 wrote in post #18803476
Thanks! I check out and admire a lot of your work so it means a lot.

I’ll give it a go next game out where I will be back in a high school gym so lighting won’t be as good and I’ll be forced to push up the ISO anyway. Using your advice, I’ll experiment with how high I can push it or maybe just auto ISO it and set exposure compensation up a bit.

Your images require only a little tweaking so all the credit goes to whatever you are doing. I just added some leveling and contrast, just to make things pop a bit more. I hope you like the result.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #18804221
Your images require only a little tweaking so all the credit goes to whatever you are doing. I just added some leveling and contrast, just to make things pop a bit more. I hope you like the result.

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Hey that looks great! Thanks for that. I know I have some stuff to learn when it comes to post processing, but it’s nice now that I have a working example of one of my own shots. I really appreciate this.

32,000 ?!??!?!?!?!?!

Color fidelity and/or DR (or whatever the tech terms are for what I see) goes out the door at that range though, you have to post process a bit differently to try to bring some of that back, or at least make it less obvious.

I can't wait for the 5D Mark V to be released. That's the only way I would be able to afford the Mark IV.

Meanwhile, the 6D has impressed me a bit, so long as I don't have to go over 5000 or so.

BTW: The smiley face meant I was green with envy.

I regularly used my 6D up to ISO 12800. Don't be afraid to go that high. Check my previous posts in the thread for examples.