Hi Stan: I shot the entire game wide open and still got the background distractions. I like the idea of shooting from the bleachers, and I shall definitely try that. Thanks! I do plan to make some prints. Truman player (in white) #23 was an excellent student of mine, so I tried for lots of shots of him. Frame number 7 shows a nice grab of him shooting, along with the lucky composition of elements in the frame. As for grain, see my email about film stocks under separate cover posted to the PDML--coming in a few minutes. As to shooting Bulls games, here's a little dialogue that ran through my head before drifting off to sleep--and after processing the batch:
Chicago Sun-Times photo editor: "So, let me get this straight: You shot a total of 426 frames?" Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Yes." Chicago Sun-Times photo editor: "And all we have is a total of 23 usable shots." Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Right." Chicago Sun Times photo editor: "You're fired." Me, newly hired sports photographer: "Understood. :-) Cheers, Christine On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Stan Halpin wrote: > Very nice shots, particularly the action shots, and the clarity/quality of > the shots, given the lighting, is impressive. > Add in a little Tri-X grain for effect? > > #3 in particular is great, and I bet Truman player 2 and the KCC player would > both love to have a copy to put on the wall. > > My only criticism has to do with the backgrounds, particularly in the action > shots. Too much detail of small-gym brick walls. > a. Try a larger aperture next time? > b. Try to get panning shots so that only your moving subject is sharp? > c. Sit higher in the bleachers so that the background is the floor > rather than the walls etc.?` > > If you keep this up, soon we'll be seeing you with a ginormous lens on the > sidelines of Bulls games . . . > > stan > > > On Jan 6, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Sorry about that. I'm a little sleepy; it's 4 a.m. here. >> >> HI Everyone: >> >> This is the second time I've shot basketball. I did a bit better than the >> first try, which was probably about a year ago, but I still find basketball >> a very, very tough shoot. Anyway, the photos are what they are, but I was >> so impressed with how the K-5 did with high ISO that I thought I'd post the >> gallery link. >> >> Number 19 is at ISO 16,000! Can you believe it? I did do some noise >> reduction, but nothing over 50. The ISO number is below each frame. >> >> Also, I've been reading up on black and white rendering, trying to improve >> my skills there, so if anything strikes you as yucky, feel free to let me >> know. >> >> Truman got trounced. Final score is listed in the header. >> >> http://www.caguila.com/trbasketballiso/ >> >> Cheers, Christine >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
