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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · 1st Basketball game - NBL Australia with 4 hours notice ! | |
As the title says, I was offered the dream opportunity to shoot the local team who play in the NBL in Australia last week, with 2 more to come in a 3 game trial and then hopefully every home game during the season, shooting for the NBL themselves.
I went from deciding what to do next in the garden to frantically charging batteries and sorting gear as I only got 4 hours notice.
Here was my kit: D800+80-200/2.8 AFD, D7000+50/1.8G, both gripped and on a dual body harness.
I have shot UCI Mountain bike downhill last year when it was here, kids soccer and the Ironman & a Triathlon event for Finisherpix earlier this year but never been to a basketball game never mind photographed one.
It was the first game of the new season, 5000 fans, nice and bright in the Convention Centre - Shutter priority, 1/800, ISO1600 were my go to settings.
What I took from the game:
1. Wow, it's a fast moving game ! with lots of people in the way - refs, serving people, players etc.etc.
2. It's rather uncomfortable sitting/kneeling/squatting on a wooden floor at my age (47)
3. Uploading at HT and FT using the centre's wi-fi and LR6 CC is not going to work ! - I have been familiarising myself with Photo Mechanic 5 this week in prep for the next game on Saturday. Going for RAW + jpeg on each body, keep the RAWs for later processing, just ingest the jpegs in Photo Mech, add the tagged files into LR for a quick contrast/sharpen/highlights adjustment then export to dropbox. - maybe 10 images at HF, 10 at FT.
Here are some shots, how did I do, what could I do better ?
I am going to try more from under the hoop next time with the 50/1.8
2959_300dpi by AndyMacDougallPhotography, on Flickr
2960_300dpi by AndyMacDougallPhotography, on Flickr
1776_300dpi by AndyMacDougallPhotography, on Flickr
2938_300dpi by AndyMacDougallPhotography, on Flickr
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