anyone ever mounted one behind a basketball hoop? I'm going to try for it this winter, but probably not have the equipment until next winter. I need to get a decent fisheye.

I've never done it, but I've read that you need to get special permission to do so.

If you do this:
1: have REAL GOOD INSURANCE!
2: be prepared to sign your life away
3: find a mount that is used by the AP/SI shooters

Not really sure I like using a fisheye for this. Figure on having your camera destroyed. Make sure your insurance covers you if the camera falls on someone and injures them.
Yeah, the shots look good etc. but you need a lot of time to set something like that up and make sure it works. Better have a big card too as you can't replace it during a game. Same with battery.

If I need shots like that I go to schools where I can shoot from above and behind the hoop. At one I got a nice through the board shot last year...problem was it was the wrong team :)

gotta hate those. I get great shots of the other team all the time, and of course the paper won't run them as it makes the home team look badly.

got permission from the AD, he just wants to run it past the coaches first. I think if I mounted it even higher on the support, then i could actually be the one standing under it, so if it does I fall I could be the one to catch it. haha. Yeah, i'm looking into the magic arm. we determined that with a 1.6x crop factor on the 300d, the fisheye would almost disappear anyways. or I could find another good wide angle lens. The sigma 15mm f/2.8 looked mighty appealing. Fairly inexpensive, and good reviews. I'm trying to determine whether I even need a wireless trigger, or whether I could just fashion a wire trigger, with how close I'm going to be. It'll depend whether I use a slave I guess.

http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/3567/1161661copy9zi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

that's where I'll plan on mounting it. The hoop is so far back I can essentially stand under it too.

I think thats way too low myself. I'd check and see how the AP and SI people do it. I haven't done that type of thing myself. I have seen them mounted but they are well above the glass. They used a very longremote cable to trip the one I had seen, but a wireles would work too.

Next you'll be putting one in the goal for hockey.... :eek:

JS

yeah, i asked this at FM and the responses I got said that I shouldn't mount directly over if we don't have a catwalk, just because of camera protection, and insurance reasons. That's why i was thinking a wide angle, so I could get all the players going for the hoop from behind the backboard. The biggest thing I'm lacking now is being able to be in the gym and trying all this stuff out. During thanksgiving break I'm gonna try to get into the school and see if I can do this type of stuff.

http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1062

sports shooter article. They places it at about the same place. I guess all I can do is just experiment.

And don't even tease me about the goal camera. It's been a dream of mine for a while. :D

I was watching the England football game this week, and as the goal hit the back of the net I saw a DSLR with radio remote flying through the air !
I hope he has really good insurance, or got the shot onto the memory card gefore the ball struck.


Watching a German match was very intersting to see one of the photographers behind the goal line had a small table, laptop, and wireless link on his camera. Looks like he was getting his photos to the computer in real time, an might even have been sending them to the editorial team real time too.
With a 3 hours battery life on a centrino wireless notebook, running a live capture/send system for 90 minutes of the game would be easy. An intersting development.

I just wonder ehat he'd do if a shot missed the goal and smashed his laptop, because he and his cameras and laptop were all in front of the barriers.

yeah,

And don't even tease me about the goal camera. It's been a dream of mine for a while. :D


hahaha....I figured that, and thats why I said it. Hmmm, wonder if they would cut a hole in the backboard and put a piece of plexiglass in it and you could shoot through that Hockey, not BB).

JS

I would love to try the goalie cam, but I don't have the money to waste on a camera that would inevitably be destroyed.

I read that in order to do the goalie cam, you need to build a special mounting bracket with a plexiglass shield. I don't know what the rules for those are for college hockey, but I think you would need to get permission from both teams and goalies if you want to use one.

i dont actually even want to try. I've seen the net go flying way too many times for my liking.

i dont actually even want to try. I've seen the net go flying way too many times for my liking.

hahaha...I was a goalie and I went flying on occasion too. In fact thats how I ended up with my second knee surgury in a year.
I do have an idea on a net cam though, just waiting to get the $$ to try it out :) Actually it would probably work for basketball too...very small but good pictures.

JS