From: "Tim Bray" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO - The Shot (scattershot-prime strategy)
My son also plays in a poorly-lit gym with grey walls. I took a
different approach. I put the K20 at ISO 1600, strapped on the Sigma
30mm f1.4, and plunked my butt down on the floor at one end. The DoF
on that lens is a joke, so I didn't try to get fancy, just got a good
manual-focus on the area under the basket, tried to keep the shutter
speed upwards of 1/100, and held down the "fire" button for a few
scrambles. Some of them came out OK, for example
http://www.tbray.org/rbl/2009-11-27/content/PS087341_large.html
The Lightroom slide-show is at http://www.tbray.org/rbl/2009-11-27/ -
the blur you get at 1/100 is actually nice in some of these.
Those look nice, Tim. I'm going to try the "manual-focus" technique as
well. I read of one basketball photog who pre-focuses 10 -15 feet into the
court and "waits for something interesting to happen." :-) I was shooting
800 - about 1600 ISO as well. Cheers, Christine
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