Beginner HS Basketball

[mikesieber]

Okay, I've only been at this photography thing for about 2-weeks now, but I thought I'd try shooting some high school basketball.

I shot these with a Nikon D70 using a Sigma 70-300 4-5.4 lens. ISO 1600 at 160 shutter speed. I tried using a flash but found the exposure to be too bright and I was worried about zapping the kids in the eyes. As it is, I think these shots are a bit on the soft side.



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[Jim Bryant]

They are soft. Because using a low shutter speed of 160, it wasn't enough to fully stop the action.

[mikesieber]

Yeah. Unfortunately, that's the best I could do with the equipment I had. A faster lens would've let me bump up the shutter speed.

Thanks for the comment.

[kmontano]

The motion blur and softness is definitely there. I would definitely advise you figure out your flash and use it. For basketball my settings are: Tv Mode - ISO 1600, Shutter Speed 1/250th flash set to 1/6th power with a bounce card attached to the flash. I have talked to many of the athletes I have photographed and they say that they do not even notice the flash, the only time I turn the flash off is for foul shots.

[ihsankhairir]

maybe you can set the focus points manually too. the focus in most of the pictures seem to be not on the person with the ball.