Help with what happened here.

I don't know squat about sports photography but I'm gonna guess it was caused by another photographer's strobe?

hsmoscout wrote in post #9744344
I don't know squat about sports photography but I'm gonna guess it was caused by another photographer's strobe?

I don't think that was it. This was shot from the stands. It's a very defined line of overexposure. If it were a strobe I'm not sure it would have been so powerful and I would think not as defined vertically, but then again I don't really have a clue to be honest..lol

It could be a shutter going faulty...?

Shutter going bad gets my vote

jra wrote in post #9744819
Shutter going bad gets my vote

Sorry to say but I 2nd this..

Before we all jump to conclusions, it is hard to tell whether your original shot was cropped. Was it shot horizontal or vertical? It appears in the posting that it was shot vertical, in which case the bright strip was along the long axis, and was it top or bottom? A bright sector along the long axis is not likely the shutter, but how about the mirror flip up being out of sync??

golfecho wrote in post #9744970
Before we all jump to conclusions, it is hard to tell whether your original shot was cropped. Was it shot horizontal or vertical? It appears in the posting that it was shot vertical, in which case the bright strip was along the long axis, and was it top or bottom? A bright sector along the long axis is not likely the shutter, but how about the mirror flip up being out of sync??

That seems a more logical explanation, since it is likely that the camera was held vertically

Looks like a sticky shutter to me.

The shutter moves across the short axis of the frame. A sticky shutter would produce a bright strip along the long axis of the frame. This is just what you have.

In any event, it's time for the camera to take a trip to the service center.

i vote for another photog's strobe

I'm going to assume it was cropped to straighten the image, in which case it's a stutter failure.

not a camera tech here, but nice shot of DeLonte West!

Hope you weren't there with your gear to get shots of LeBron!

Lastly, the guy who sits near me shooting HS games uses a flash. I often get his flash in my pic. It doesn't look anything like what you got. When his flash meets my shutter, I can see it in the entire shot--not anything like as shown in your shot.

dave

FREEZE wrote in post #9745432
i vote for another photog's strobe

My vote too.
Since the image was taken at 1/640th, and max sync speed is 1/250th, and the image was taken in portrait mode, the shutter would move from left to right in this orientation.

carpenter wrote in post #9744374
It's a very defined line of overexposure.

True. And that makes me think that it is a shutter problem or something of the likes except for the fact that there are shadows from the fans on the overexposed side and no other shadows anywhere in the pic
Maybe posting the other 2 photos would help?

The possibility exists that it's a shutter or even flash. The strobes used in arenas like that are insanely powerful, and, if the timing was just right, you can get that same sort of look as a dieing shutter.