Basketball

Please comment or add advice, help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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On camera flash is not your friend. It is your enemy! You have a good moment, but the on camera flash really spoils it; also the cluttered background detracts. Happy shooting!

/daniel

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Thanks for the comments, and yeah on camera flash is no good, thats why I glad its Christmas, getting pws and strobes.

Congrats - you will never look back! :D

/daniel

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On camera flash isn't always your enemy. You just cannot rely on it so heavily. I mentioned this on another pic recently...turn the power down on the flash...WAY down. Meter for existing lighting, then turn the power down 1 2/3 to 2 stops. Just a little pop of light to highlight the players. Gets rid of nasty shadows on faces and bodies, but not enough to give nasty shadows on the walls behind the action. Nothing necessarily wrong with on camera flash, just have to be careful with it. Off camera is always better of course, but you can get away with on camera flash just fine.

I took a reading at this gym and it was ranging from 1/10 and 1/20 at f.4 iso 800, and the lighting is not even at all. But thanks for the suggest because i travel to other gyms and am gonna try using that suggestion.

Ah...I'm sorry, i failed to notice that you were shooting with a F4-5.6 lens. I'm use to using Canons 70-200 2.8L

 

Generally speaking, worst case scenario's in the gyms in my area, i'm pushing to 1600, and am shooting at 1/250, with flash powered down to 1 and 1/3 of a stop.

 

With that lens, you don't have much of a choice unless you have strobes. You'll still have an underexposed background, but you won't get nasty shadows.