H.S. Basketball

ronlane · Dec 20, 2015

My first game of the year. You really have to shift gears from football to shoot basketball. I think this is a pretty good start and I am excited to get better this year. All shot with a Canon 7D mk ii.

1) 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 43mm, f/2.8, 1/640, ISO 4000. This one I wished that I was able to get the faces.

2) 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 130mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 6400

3) 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 190mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 6400

4) 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm, f/2.8, 1/1000, ISO 6400

5) 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70mm, f/2.8, 1/500, ISO 4000

jcdeboever · Dec 20, 2015

Those are real nice. Great job.

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Derrel · Dec 20, 2015

Whoa---#3 has the basketball flattening out quite a bit against the floor! How odd....seldom see that exact few milliseconds captured. Neat! I really like the shot of the kid driving to the hoop, shot #5. I agree on leaving his teammate in the shot, since his expression and placement both work to advance the feeling of "being there".

ronlane · Dec 20, 2015

jcdeboever said:
Those are real nice. Great job.

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Thanks.

Derrel said:
Whoa---#3 has the basketball flattening out quite a bit against the floor! How odd....seldom see that exact few milliseconds captured. Neat! I really like the shot of the kid driving to the hoop, shot #5. I agree on leaving his teammate in the shot, since his expression and placement both work to advance the feeling of "being there".

Thanks Derrel. I liked the way the ball was compressed on that one too. I think I got another shot of that also.

Derrel · Dec 20, 2015

This morning when I tried to look at these full-sized, they were being served up with glacial slowness...returning this PM, they load in a snap. Honestly, I think these have had too much noise reduction done on them, and that the detail seems missing, due to the NR. I'd like a bit more "grit"...for just a bit more a feeling of realism. There's always a compromise between detail, and noise: I personally think these have too much noise reduction, not enough of the smaller detail that gives that feeling of realism.

imagemaker46 · Dec 20, 2015

Ron, they all look good, personal favourites are the last two.

I just read what Derrel mentioned about the noise reduction, although I didn't look at them to that point, I've mentioned before about adding a little noise in photo shop to the images after taking the noise out, or when shooting at a high iso where the images look mushy and not sharp , it helps.

Gary A. · Dec 20, 2015

The last shot is my favorite. Good stuff.

ronlane · Dec 20, 2015

Derrel said:
This morning when I tried to look at these full-sized, they were being served up with glacial slowness...returning this PM, they load in a snap. Honestly, I think these have had too much noise reduction done on them, and that the detail seems missing, due to the NR. I'd like a bit more "grit"...for just a bit more a feeling of realism. There's always a compromise between detail, and noise: I personally think these have too much noise reduction, not enough of the smaller detail that gives that feeling of realism.

I went back and lowered the NR (It was at 60 in LR so I went to 40). The sharpening was set at 70 in LR.

imagemaker46 said:
Ron, they all look good, personal favourites are the last two.

I just read what Derrel mentioned about the noise reduction, although I didn't look at them to that point, I've mentioned before about adding a little noise in photo shop to the images after taking the noise out, or when shooting at a high iso where the images look mushy and not sharp , it helps.

Thanks Scott. I haven't been processing in PS for my sports. I just do basic stuff in LR.