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Nice work. Isn’t D2 college ball great? All the access of high school but with greater athleticism and sometimes better light. A few things pop to mind when I look at these …
• In the first shot, you are at 1/2500th. That’s more than twice as fast as you need to be. You can settle in at 800-1000th with no blur and really help yourself with the ISO at 2.8. You are fine at f/2.8 – you could live there and still get all the sharpness you need.
• I assume you were using the 70/200 2.8 for the second and third? You could/should have stayed at 2.8 rather than f/3.5 and f 4.0. 2.8 is really going to drop that ISO and increase your consistency.
Next time in that gym, put it in manual ,set it at 2.8 and 1/800th or 1/1000th and don't touch anything else and see what the Photo Gods give you.
• This last point is a personal thing and I’m sure I’ve said this in other threads so forgive me…. But everyone will tell you that “basketball is a vertical game and that it needs to be shot vertically.” I call BS. This has become an unfortunate trope and common point of repetition for people who write about shooting basketball but don’t actually do it. Why? Because it sounds like it makes sense. Take a look at a Sports Illustrated. You will find just as many – if not more – landscapes. Your palette for composition in a landscape is far more dynamic and the plays that unfold are more varied. If you shoot vertically, after jump shot number 6,591 and drive to the basket number 7,443 your pictures will all look the same to anyone who looks at your collection … Including the players. There needs to be a mix in a collection.
I’m not saying that’s the case here. You may have a shot a lot of horizontals – I just like to get on that soapbox on this subject!
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