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First diving & basketball games
Sina McCarthy, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | United States | Posted: 9:55 PM on 11.11.09 |
->> Photographers & Friends,
Would you be willing to give me some feedback on my first diving & basketball games? Shooting basketball game wasn't easy for me because flash is not allowed inside the court and I didn't use a strobe light. I did as best as I could. I used ISO 1000 to 1250 (there was some grainy on my photos, yuck!), f/2.8, speed 500 and 70-200mm lens.
My friend got me on the sidelines to practice shooting and to help me to build my portfolio. I am not taking any credits or giving photos away.
An honest feedback is appreciated. There is always room for an improvements.
Thanks!
Sina
diving: http://smcphoto.zenfolio.com/p926803945
basketball: http://smcphoto.zenfolio.com/p913608601 |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 2:22 AM on 11.12.09 |
->> Hey Sina,
Nice work. Good composition, no overly cluttered backgrounds. I'd count it as a great job if I was you.
Don't worry about flashing basketball. 1250-1600 isn't very bad, but out of curiosity what camera were you using? Most of the newer bodies, 1600 is very clean and very usable, so I wouldn't sweat that much.
~ nic |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 9:35 AM on 11.12.09 |
->> As far as the basketball goes -- crop tighter.
Don't be afraid to crop and focus on the central action. Pretty much all of those could use a chop off the edges.
Search this site and read Robert's Rules of Order (Robert Hanashiro that is) on clean backgrounds and tight focus on the action. |
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Gabriel Hernandez, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:14 AM on 11.12.09 |
| ->> Good stuff Sina, I agree with George about the cropping. 500/2.8 is actually good. I shoot 320/2.8 at some high school gyms with 1600iso haha. Grain is a good thing too. |
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Larry Lawson, Photographer
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 5:18 PM on 11.12.09 |
->> Sina - you seem to have been shooting where the lights were good - Berkeley if I'm not mistaken? I'd love it if I had that to work under. Maybe someday the Ducks will let me shoot either at Mac this year or Matt next :)
Good stuff tho! |
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Nik Habicht, Photographer
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Levittown | PA | USA | Posted: 7:57 PM on 11.12.09 |
->> Three words: Faces, Backgrounds, Tighter:
Editorial images in sports are about the people --- hence faces matter. If your client's only going to use one image, do you want it to be the one of the back of a head/person?
In the diving especially, look for clean backgrounds. The name of the facility, the wheels on diving boards, sometimes the edge of the board can be very distracting. Work to eliminate or minimize that; ruthlessly cull images where the attention shifts between the diver and the background.
In the basketball -- shoot tighter.
On the whole: Nice job. You came back with usable images... |
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Sina McCarthy, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | United States | Posted: 9:15 PM on 11.12.09 |
| ->> Nic, I used Canon 1D Mark ll when shooting BB and all other sports. I hope to get a newer body sometime in the near future. Nik, your feedback is invaluable and I will definitely keep that in mind. Thanks for all the help everyone and I appreciated it! |
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Michael Durisseau, Photographer, Assistant
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Santa Fe/Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 9:51 PM on 11.12.09 |
| ->> +1 on Nik's comment, but I think you're making too big a deal of the noise issue...I, like some others here, come from a film background, so the noise at 1250 or 1600 is negligible from where I sit. |
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Nik Habicht, Photographer
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Levittown | PA | USA | Posted: 2:28 AM on 11.13.09 |
->> Sina,
I used to shoot hoops with a 200/2.8 in the film days, often working from a corner of the court. You might try taping your zoom ring in a different place for each quarter or half of a game --- and then live or die with that lens selection. If you zoom in tight, at the beginning you're going to want to fight it -- you'll be wondering if you can actually make usable pictures.
You can --- once you learn how to see and move the camera in this tighter world.....
Removing that element -- zooming -- will allow you to place your attention on framing the image tightly...
Pixels are cheap -- and develop faster than film used to.... |
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