2011 Valley Center January Jam Basket Ball Tournament

Here are a few images from the Valley Center January Jam Basketball Tournament. C and C Welcome.

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These look great!
Care to share your settings?

Very nice shots! ambient light only?

dannybritton/manlou,

Thanks. These images were captured at 1/250 @ f4.5 ISO 400. Lens is the Canon 70-200mm 2.8. I am using 4 AB800 strobes at full power. I have been fortunate to have P.O.T.N member Phil Zivnusk providing me guidance along the way. I have duplicated his setup as we shoot in the same gym. We are getting a new High School next year and I know Phil we be doing most of his shooting in the new gym. The Middle School will move into the old high school (the images you see above) so I will be doing most of my shooting here. Setting up strobes is a lot of work but I believe the results are worth it! Here is a link to some of Phil's images, the last photo in his series shows how the strobes are setup.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=973609

Mark

very nice. Love the balance of your lighting. Good WB, too. Nice action. Really like 6-8. Always like the guard driving with the ball shots.

dave

I liked the first shot most because its quit close one(up in the air).....
The second last one is also a good one
Almost all shot are nice...
In the last shot i liked the shoes.....(blue ones)...

Great emotions!! IMO, 1 needs a hoop and 5 needs the ball. The emotions really sell these, though. Nice work.

Thanks for all feedback and comments folks.

I ended up shooting a total of 4 games Thursday evening, 4 games Friday evening, and 4 games Saturday afternoon. All that shooting really gave me the opportunity to work on my timing.

Mark