Well done, Hawks!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Basketball Photography...
Anyone who's tried it can tell you... it's not easy. You must shoot a lot. Lighting is the worst. And you need a really long lens. For this week's meeting, I rented a 70-200mm lens for the boys to experiment with. Will especially is very interested in sports photography, so putting this kind of glass in his hands was a pleasure. The week before this shoot, the boys and I had pre-tested the lighting environment. We decided that shooting on MANUAL was the best way to get consistently decent exposures. So we "metered" in advance, knowing that the lighting would be exactly the same for the game the following week. Here are some of the boys' images. As always, click on image to view larger:
It's been a long while...
... but we're getting back into the swing of things over here at the Photography Club.
We've only had a couple of sessions this trimester, due to all the snow days and the ski trip. But today, we covered some good territory. Mr. Geraci had asked if the photography club might generate some images that he could use for his afterschool activities brochure. Of course, I was eager to accept the challenge. And let me tell you, the boys did wonderfully! Please click images to see larger.
First, from Myles:
Again, a nice job meeting the requirements. Patrick and I discussed how using a longer shutter speed might have allowed the hammer to "move" in the image, but like all the images shot today, he was using a flash, which makes controlling shutter speed a bit more challenging.
And finally Jack:
Nice work from Jack, too. I especially love the framing of the last image. How many people would have framed a shot like this? Maybe you've seen something similar... in the New York Times?? Anyway, since there's always room for improvement, a larger aperture would have reduced the competing elements on this final shot. This would drive the eye inwards to that lovely bit happening in the center of the image. Here, I've replicated a shallower depth of field that an opened up aperture would have rendered:
But again, since the boys were using flash, controlling the aperture was not as easy as just dialing into aperture priority and shifting things around.
Just to be clear, all three boys (Will was home sick) were shooting on fully MANUAL mode today. Yup, they know how to do that. Do you?
We've only had a couple of sessions this trimester, due to all the snow days and the ski trip. But today, we covered some good territory. Mr. Geraci had asked if the photography club might generate some images that he could use for his afterschool activities brochure. Of course, I was eager to accept the challenge. And let me tell you, the boys did wonderfully! Please click images to see larger.
First, from Myles:
Myles' group of images shows very nicely how he met the requirements for the shoot: give me a detail shot, a portrait, and an overall shot of the environment. All three of these images are from "Games" in lower school.
Next, let's take a peak at Patrick's work:
And finally Jack:
Nice work from Jack, too. I especially love the framing of the last image. How many people would have framed a shot like this? Maybe you've seen something similar... in the New York Times?? Anyway, since there's always room for improvement, a larger aperture would have reduced the competing elements on this final shot. This would drive the eye inwards to that lovely bit happening in the center of the image. Here, I've replicated a shallower depth of field that an opened up aperture would have rendered:
Just to be clear, all three boys (Will was home sick) were shooting on fully MANUAL mode today. Yup, they know how to do that. Do you?
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