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12/07/2006 09:41:51 PM · #1 |
I made it out to my son's game today to shoot his game. I took over 300 shots. Here are a few of them. Please leave me some comments so I know what to do to get better.
Thanks,
Mike
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12/08/2006 10:18:11 PM · #2 |
bump
Wow, not even a "These suck, next time you want to pick up a camera, stop and stab yourself in the leg. After you do this enough times, you'll never be tempted to pick up a camera again!!!!"
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12/08/2006 11:32:28 PM · #3 |
| I don't want to be so negative about stuff all the time, but for me it's that they are kind of snapshotty. There's soft focus in many of them, and flash shadow. They look like pictures any proud Dad would take. Not a bad thing. Just that as is, they don't evoke the feeling of the moment, for me anyway. Maybe a tighter crop in some, or some more even framing, or rotating some so that the floor is level, then cropping in on the action. Like in this, if you could have zoomed in on the three central players, and positioned yourself so that all three heads were in the frame with no obstruction, then in post, straightened, and used curves or similar to saturate those nice colours some more. |
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12/08/2006 11:39:56 PM · #4 |
when shooting events like basketball games its all about position and lighting. Professional photographers have strobes on the cieling that fire hen they shoot, obviously you dont have this so here are a few tips fromt he hamster
1. Get lower to the court, think about all those basketball shots you've seen in SI, they are all taken from ground level (unless from behind the hoop)
2. Invest in a flash. you can get the canon 420ex or 430ex for pretty cheap nowadays. Adn also get a stofen omni-bounce (or equivalent). this will help with those harsh shadows and alsmot mimick the afect of the strobes on the cieling.
3. It takes practice but wait for those moments of action, someone shooting or pasing, i find with basketball shots that they are much more dramatic when the ball is in flight or just leaving someones hands.
hope these help :)
-Dan |
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12/09/2006 12:03:45 AM · #5 |
Hi,
Could you post some specs, shutter speed, lens, f/stop?
I have been trying to read up on taking basketball shots.
My son will be playing this year so I want to see what I can do.
Got a chance tonight to take the camera to the basketball court and take some photo's of the kids just playing around.
Will upload a few of them later.
Message edited by author 2006-12-09 00:04:13. |
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12/09/2006 12:12:45 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by I Enjoy Ham:
when shooting events like basketball games its all about position and lighting. Professional photographers have strobes on the cieling that fire hen they shoot, obviously you dont have this so here are a few tips fromt he hamster
1. Get lower to the court, think about all those basketball shots you've seen in SI, they are all taken from ground level (unless from behind the hoop)
2. Invest in a flash. you can get the canon 420ex or 430ex for pretty cheap nowadays. Adn also get a stofen omni-bounce (or equivalent). this will help with those harsh shadows and alsmot mimick the afect of the strobes on the cieling.
3. It takes practice but wait for those moments of action, someone shooting or pasing, i find with basketball shots that they are much more dramatic when the ball is in flight or just leaving someones hands.
hope these help :)
-Dan |
1. I moved around quite a bit, high, low, just off the court.
2. I have a Sigma EF-500 DG flash that I did use.
3. I did have some of those shots, but they looked horrible, a lot of blur, etc.
Thanks!
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