Overdosing on basketball! What fun!

[Bob32]

Holy Toledo! I finally figured out the newly revised system well enough to post some photos as well as to include numbering of each photo and accompanying comments with some of the photos.

On December 6 and 7 I attended two days of a three-day basketball tournament held at local Pleasant Valley High School. I shot all four games played each day. Eight teams participated, and I was able to see each team play twice during the two days.

This post includes shots from the first two games played on Thursday. Shots #1-3 are from the College Park/Oak Ridge game, and shots #4-9 are from the Chico/Downey-Modesto contest.

I used my D700 combined with either a 24-85 f/2.8-4 or an 80-200 f/2.8. Exposure was manually set at 1/500, f-stop varying from 2.8-4, ISO varying from 4000-8000, and zoom setting varying from 24 mm.-80 mm.

Comments are welcome.


Bob

Note: Upon reviewing this post I noticed that on my computer I had to click on every photo to make it display at full size. You may also have to do so. Wide angle shot #9 especially needs to be displayed at full size.

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3. Later in the game #25 encountered a bit of an obstacle.


4. The Chico High School basketball team is ranked #1 in this area. They won this tournament last year, and #22 was named the MVP of the tournament.


5. Here’s #22 again jumping to make a shot. He scored 14 points in this contest.


6. Chico player #5 was the games’s high scorer with 20 points.


7. #5 goes up for another one.


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9. The Chico onslaught was way too much for Downey who lost 71-34. Despite playing their reserves for most of the 4th quarter Chico didn’t allow Downey to score a point in that period.