2023-2024 HS basketball

[Anton Largiader]

Fall sports are over and winter sports are here. I drove one of our girls' b-ball teams to a scrimmage yesterday and tried to remember what to shoot. Honestly, basketball wasn't my favorite winter sport last year and I don't see that changing, but it's possible that I will improve and thus enjoy it more.

The JV match was pretty even; each team had streaks but we ended up tied or close to it. Of course, in a scrimmage the points aren't the goal so coaches may be giving up points in favor of trying new plays or getting more players out on the court. Varsity, it looked like the other team was just a lot tighter. They intercepted our passes regularly and then ran for mostly unchallenged layups.

JV:
This girl got the ball knocked out of her hands. I liked all of the hands in the image.

 

[Anton Largiader]

Two from Varsity, also:

Showing off her moves:


Blasting through with a bit of blocking help from a teammate:


I think I need to work on sharpening for web more. These looked WAY better in DPP.

 

[rjharris]

Eustace and May Pearl

 

[ronlane]

Still shooting football here but it is winding down. Found the time to get to the hardwood for a game recently.

 

[cwells52]

I'm rolling full speed ahead for basketball season and am already about 10 games deep....Lots of Christmas tournaments in the area starting next week as well.

 

[cwells52]

A couple more from Friday night's game, really loving the R6 matched up with my 24-70 right now...

 

[bobpal]

Shot the local high school this weekend. They were playing a special game at the university gym with a neighboring town that they don't normally play.

This kid is also the football QB.

 

[Anton Largiader]

This kid is also the football QB.

I dig it when I see kids in multiple sport seasons. I can think of football-wrestling, basketball-track, lacrosse-FH, tennis-volleyball, and softball-volleyball examples right off the bat, but one girl is three season track (which is already multiple sports) plus wrestling. Impressive.

 

[ronlane]

A few from last night.

 

[ronlane]

two more.

 

[ronlane]

This weeks games.

 

[ronlane]

A couple of more.

 

[Anton Largiader]

I went to a game yesterday; it was a double header girls varsity and then boys. I ran into the girl that I sold my 7D2 to and we swapped cameras for the evening. Shooting the 7D2 again really drove home how awesome the R3 is. My shots with the 7D2 were fine, really, but the user experience was so different. So much less visual confirmation of focus, no tracking, smaller viewfinder, no exposure simulation, slower AF, etc. Wow, did things ever change in those seven years.

I turned the R3's speed down from H+ to H, and turned the volume back up to 2, but she still shot about 2600 frames during the games. Live and learn. Way too much time on the trigger.

I shot a custom WB for the R3 before I handed it over, but didn't do the same for the 7D2 so my results aren't great. Unfortunately it's not possible to copy the R3 WB over to the 7D2 shots and of course the 7D2 images are just noisier.

 

[bobpal]

I went to a game yesterday; it was a double header girls varsity and then boys. I ran into the girl that I sold my 7D2 to and we swapped cameras for the evening. Shooting the 7D2 again really drove home how awesome the R3 is. My shots with the 7D2 were fine, really, but the user experience was so different. So much less visual confirmation of focus, no tracking, smaller viewfinder, no exposure simulation, slower AF, etc. Wow, did things ever change in those seven years.

I turned the R3's speed down from H+ to H, and turned the volume back up to 2, but she still shot about 2600 frames during the games. Live and learn. Way too much time on the trigger.

I shot a custom WB for the R3 before I handed it over, but didn't do the same for the 7D2 so my results aren't great. Unfortunately it's not possible to copy the R3 WB over to the 7D2 shots and of course the 7D2 images are just noisier.

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That would be a fun thing to do, shoot with a camera you used to like.

How many do you normally shoot at a game? I have a R6II that I shoot at H and I end up with just under 2,000 to sort through. I've been doing this for a long time and I try to not just hold the shutter down but I can't seem to get less. I'm kind of longing for the days of 7 fps but I can't bring myself to slow the camera down.

Then, shooting at 12 or more FPS I have a difficult time selecting THE right image out of a sequence. Like they say, it is hard to kill your babies (photos).

 

[Anton Largiader]

With the 7D2 I'd hope for only 350 per game. I do leave the R3 on full blast and try to shoot less often and with shorter bursts as I gain experience with what shots will be worth keeping, but so far I still have not gotten back down to 350. This evening I was at basketball, not really trying to do very much, and got 433 between JV and Varsity. Not bad. For most school sports, once I flag the keepers I trash the rest. Keepers might be 20 to 80.

 

[Anton Largiader]

The paradox here is that I actually need to shoot more. I'm shooting too many frames of what I think I'm looking for, and not enough of the other interesting moments. Shorter burst, more of them and specifically of different types of moments.

I recently turned image review back on and it's kind of interesting. As long a you leave your finger on the half-press it doesn't get in the way, but when you fully lift you get the preview. What it shows can be really informative as to how a still capture looks, because otherwise we only see the fleeting action as we shoot. Sometimes, I was thinking, "I should look for more stuff like THAT."

 

[Anton Largiader]

Looking through stuff from last week. I went up into the stands for a while with the 1.4x to get above the crowd but I just don't like the results. It's harder to get eyes from up there, and the shots just aren't as dynamic.

Bob, that second shot is phenomenal! And of course, that guy's jump is phenomenal. What FL was that one shot at?

 

[rjharris]

Malakoff vs Eustace. They say the girl has a D1 offer somewhere.

 

[bobpal]

Looking through stuff from last week. I went up into the stands for a while with the 1.4x to get above the crowd but I just don't like the results. It's harder to get eyes from up there, and the shots just aren't as dynamic.

Bob, that second shot is phenomenal! And of course, that guy's jump is phenomenal. What FL was that one shot at?

It was shot at 35mm and cropped a bit.

I usually shoot the first quarter with the 70-200, the second with the 24-70 and then see how I'm feeling for the second half. My schools and the news websites I shoot for want horizontal photos but if I feel like I'm good I will shoot verticle for at least part of the second half.

 

[Burnet44]

Malakoff vs Eustace. They say the girl has a D1 offer somewhere.

I coached there 1994-1998
They just won State DC took Kerens job good guy good friend