I shot my second basketball game. I'd love C&C. Used a D90 and a D700 switching the 24-70 and 70-200 between the two. Again, my pictures are very noisy. I'm still working on the optimal settings but I plan to use the strobes once my Skyports come in and hopefully that will allow me to get some better quality lighting and higher IQ. Also about the magenta tint on the white uniforms. A lot of that is due to the reflection of the lights off of the red surfaces surrounding the court. I use the same WB for hockey in the same arena with the same lighting and don't get that tint. Again I'd really appreciate critiques, comments, suggestions.
We have the same problems with crowds. Most sporting events at the university here have terrible backgrounds because the fan turnout is usually low.
The focus on #2 looks soft or off.
Maybe bump the exposure up a little in #4?
You could probably crop these a lot tighter. Not sure what you're shooting for, but I'd turn them into tight horizontal and vertical crops for our paper unless we wanted a large photo to run.
These all look flat to me; lacking contrast and punch. The middle one of the second set doesn't look as flat. Care to share how you processed these?
I'm not sure how you'd crop these much tighter. They could probably be cropped a little bit differently (hard to explain specifics without image numbers). I would be at a loss about how to crop any of these to horizontal images. Maybe a couple of square crops, but basketball--especially when the action is so close--is a very vertical game. Many horizontal shots I end up with are from the opposite end of the court.
Ok, cool thanks for the comments. And yes the crowd turnout sucks. I wish that we had the crowds that we get for hockey for basketball. And yes the focus on #2 is a little soft but I had to post it, if you look at the exif caption i couldn't not post it.
Scott Sewell wrote:
These all look flat to me; lacking contrast and punch. The middle one of the second set doesn't look as flat. Care to share how you processed these?
I'm not sure how you'd crop these much tighter. They could probably be cropped a little bit differently (hard to explain specifics without image numbers). I would be at a loss about how to crop any of these to horizontal images. Maybe a couple of square crops, but basketball--especially when the action is so close--is a very vertical game. Many horizontal shots I end up with are from the opposite end of the court.
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I try to only shoot on my side of the court as I don't have a long enough fast enough lens to shoot the other side, though if I was to somehow end up with another body and a 300 2.8 or a 400 2.8 I'd shoot both sides. As for PP, I don't really do much as I'm not very skilled with stuff and usually end up just using Aperture and dfine for stuff (didn't use dfine on any of these though). Any suggestions for what to do? I'm not very well informed when it comes to PP
