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05/02/2005 06:59:07 PM · #1
With the playoffs happening I have been seeing a lot of NBA coverage and a lot of pictures taken through the back board like the in this article I was wondering if anyone knows how these are taken. Are there cameras mounted behind the glass or is the photographer up in the stands with a long telephoto. Maybe there is an even more obvious way that I am missing. Just curious thought it might be something interesting to discuss.
05/02/2005 07:04:35 PM · #2
I think those are not actual photographs but its a video camera and you can take a single frame and use it as a photograph.
05/02/2005 07:33:10 PM · #3
no, a lot of the photogs have cameras mounted there which are linked to remote triggers and strobes set up in different places in the stadium. I think most of the cameras up there are the medium format hasselblads, at least I know some photogs use those.
05/02/2005 07:38:01 PM · #4
yeah, check out //www.sportsshooter.com and go to the forums and search 'backboard' or something...should find some info there.
05/02/2005 08:06:27 PM · #5
Petrakka is right... the photographers attach the cameras to the backboards and fire them remotely. My brother is a photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette... here are a couple he has done in that style:

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

PS -- I've seen them do similar shots for hockey with the camera mounted on the net.

Message edited by author 2005-05-02 20:09:31.
05/02/2005 08:08:51 PM · #6
I would have thought that those two shots were done from the catwalks not the backboard given the angle shown.

Message edited by author 2005-05-02 20:09:34.
05/02/2005 08:11:43 PM · #7
Maybe backboard isn't the right term... I don't know my basketball... but the camera is attached to some sort of the apparatus that's hanging down with a basket attached to it :)

Originally posted by Jason:

I would have thought that those two shots were done from the catwalks not the backboard given the angle shown.
05/02/2005 08:19:57 PM · #8
Originally posted by alansfreed:

Petrakka is right... the photographers attach the cameras to the backboards and fire them remotely. My brother is a photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette... here are a couple he has done in that style:

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

PS -- I've seen them do similar shots for hockey with the camera mounted on the net.


I think we are Lucky that your Brother doesnt enter challenges, :)
(his Vatican Pics were great too)

Message edited by author 2005-05-02 20:20:30.
05/02/2005 08:22:31 PM · #9
Originally posted by alansfreed:

Maybe backboard isn't the right term... I don't know my basketball... but the camera is attached to some sort of the apparatus that's hanging down with a basket attached to it :)


Given the angle of view and the perspective in those shots, the camera must have been mounted on top of the shot clock looking straight down. It certainly looks like they were taken from higher up than the backboard.
05/02/2005 08:24:01 PM · #10
Originally posted by alansfreed:

PS -- I've seen them do similar shots for hockey with the camera mounted on the net.

I couldn't imagine putting a nice EXPENSIVE camera on a hockey net...... but then I'm a poor boy so I guess it's different for me..
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