Clemson vs Alabama Men's BBall Jan 6, 2009

[powerslave]

First things first, the 30D AF is AWESOME! Compared to my XTi, it was just amazing.

Flickriver link. (http://www.flickriver.com/photos/mentalvortex/tags/clemsonvsalabama)

It was an awesome game, comments and critique welcome. I used the 70-200 f/2.8 + 30D and Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 + XTi.

There were tons of pros there with 300mm primes and 1D's and what not. It was fun.

Critique welcome!

Jan 6th, 2009.

[KrishnenduKes]

Sports Action Approved

Saw some of the photographs. Some of them are stunning, a vast improvement on your last work with excellent WB, sharp action clicks...


Critiques will come in...

[Sunny]

Topic Moved to PhotoCritiques

[manav]

Maybe because this time he was not shooting ladies and didnt get distracted :D

[KrishnenduKes]

Back home and a better connection and a few spare minutes had a harder look at your pictures from the ball game.

One of my favourites is this one:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/3215479249_9024612c43.jpg?v=0

Like this one too a lot:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/3216331554_8ffd95ab67.jpg?v=0

Amazing shot here as well:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3476/3216333126_4980bd11ee.jpg?v=0

And ofcourse this one as well

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3360/3216332780_b54de639c6.jpg?v=0

These are the ones that attracted my eye. Though there is one thing that I would have loved to see in all of these photographs... I do not know how far you had pushed your ISO and I suppose that you wanted to freeze the action hence you shot with high shutter speeds. I personally would have liked to see the Aperture opened much wider. This would have given us more sharpness on the game's players and get less distracted by the orange audience behind. This is in no way taking away the credit of what to me is a very good coverage of the event. I am just saying that with an open aperture, you would have put your players standing out literally against a totally blurred background. I hope you are getting what I am trying to say.

[powerslave]

Hey Ken, I understand what you're saying, but that kind of DOF is as good as it gets in those situations, because all the shots there are at f/2.8, which is pretty much as wide as one can generally go (barring few very expensive exceptions).

The high shutter speed has been achieved by maxing out the ISO, maxing out the aperture.

This weekend I shot track events and the lighting was horrible and with the same settings I could only bring the shutterspeeds up to 1/400~1/500s.

[KrishnenduKes]

but that kind of DOF is as good as it gets in those situations, because all the shots there are at f/2.8, which is pretty much as wide as one can generally go

Really!!! :eek: Unbelievable. With such long focal lengths, normally the background goes into a nice bokeh.