Something a little different: Youth BB

[jorgemonkey]

I got a chance to go out and shoot a semi local youth basketball league last saturday. It was either 1600 ISO & 1/250th @ F2.8, or strobes. Since the people there at the league were cool, I strobed it

Nikon D2h with Nikon 70-200 F2.8. I had one SB-800 on a 9ft light stand, 1/4 power zoomed to about 70-85 aimed at the free throw line. Since it recycled fastest, I had that light next to me. Across from me I had a SB-28 on another light stand at either 1/2 or 1/4 power aimed slightly above the free throw line. I wanted to bounce them, but I would have to shoot at full power to get a good reading.

I brought my studio strobes to use, but I had 2 courts to shoot and I was moving back & forth between courts, so the flashes made it easier to use. Camera settings were 1/200th @ F2.8-4.

[jorgemonkey]

Set # 2. I noticed while I was shooting a couple got a little hot on the white.

[Homer]

Very nice, I like the sharpness to them. I really need to look into strobes.

Jim

[BFiredup]

Love the socks with the basketballs on them......

Good mercy, that little boy in the last photo is so THIN....I bet he is aggressive though...LOL

Great shots....
Love the look with strobes...

[dhyravy]

Nice shots Scott. You might want to try cross lighting this. Basically, just set up the flashes off of the corners of the court at the same end and aimed about 10' above the free throw circle. I like to place them high in the stands on a railing or other suitable mounting spot. This allows you to shoot from anywhere along the baseline and cuts the shadows unless they are right in one of the corners.

[jorgemonkey]

The kid in the last photo probably could beat me! He was doing all the behind-the-back moves for layups & everything else. He even had the head/shoulder fake down.

Dhravy - I basically had my flashes set up in about the locations you mentioned. The stands didn't have hand railings, and I needed everything to be portable, so they were up on 9-10' lightstands. The shadows I was getting was because the flash closest to me had a faster recycle time, and when I'd fire a couple shots off quick the far one couldn't recycle quick enough, giving me the one flash look.

For my first time I don't think I did too bad