What’s Your Preference?

lputman · #1 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:29 PM

Jim Bryant · #2 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:39 PM

Good work! Need to crop tighter in a few of those images. Otherwise, nice captures.

lputman · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:43 PM

Thank you Jim.

I sent you a PM

Jim Bryant · #4 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:51 PM

Got it. Here's the way I'd crop your images for more impact. I just cropped in a bit tighter. Did you happen to use the 50mm 1.8 lens? Try shooting with near the sidelines on both sides of the basket with the 70-200mm getting them coming at ya head on. With all that bumping, fouling and hacking coming downcourt, you're sure to get more interesting shots instead of going to the basket. I normally sit on my butt near the end court out of bounds sidelines.

SusanH1970 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:52 PM

Nice work, Lori!!

lputman · #6 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 06:59 PM

Thank you Susan.

Thanks for the crops Jim, I shot with the 100 2.0. I don't have the nifty fifty any more and the 1.4 doesn't seem to focus as fast as the 1.8 did. For this location, I was sitting about 15-20 away. I was about three feet behind the plane of the goal. I think I got discouraged with the 70-200 since the day before, they played at a different gym with horrendous lighting and I just couldn't get a good speed and I didn't want to crank up the ISO past 1250. For their next venue, which I don't know where it will be played at yet, I'll will try the 70-200 again without regard to how high the ISO has to go. I wanted to keep the shutter speed no lower than 1/400.

zona5101 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 07:02 PM

These are really very nice captures. Color,exposure and timing are just great!

Jim Bryant · #8 (**permalink**) 05-27-2010, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lputman

Thank you Susan.

Thanks for the crops Jim, I shot with the 100 2.0. I don't have the nifty fifty any more and the 1.4 doesn't seem to focus as fast as the 1.8 did. For this location, I was sitting about 15-20 away. I was about three feet behind the plane of the goal. I think I got discouraged with the 70-200 since the day before, they played at a different gym with horrendous lighting and I just couldn't get a good speed and I didn't want to crank up the ISO past 1250. For their next venue, which I don't know where it will be played at yet, I'll will try the 70-200 again without regard to how high the ISO has to go. I wanted to keep the shutter speed no lower than 1/400.

You can go pretty high ISO with those MKIII's with very little grain. I know about horrible lighting

Most of the high school and middle school gym here on the Kitsap Peninsula are caves.

But, you did capture some nice images there.