Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Another  home game gave me the opportunity to photograph some more basketball and to continue to tweak the lighting in the gym. Once again I used the SB800 and SB600 cross lighting the gym. Again I mounted the lights in the abandoned clock baskets about 10 feet up. This time I [...]

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The snow broke and the basketball games stopped getting canceled!   I was able to shoot another game and this time I had both lights at the same level and pointed in at the same location just above the key. Both lights were in old clock cages that were now empty. [...]

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Last month in this post I talked about how I lit a high school basketball gym with two speed lights.
The thing that I wasn’t able to get right the first time was the location of my lights.  I had to put them both off to one side and higher the basket.   The diagram below shows [...]

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This weekend I had the opportunity to shoot a girls varsity basketball game at the local high school.  Some of you know I have another website where I shoot some sports as a way to help pay some of the photography equipment.  This summer and fall I got to shoot a bunch of HS soccer [...]

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