We were lucky enough to get tickets to the local Dayton Dragons minor league Class-A baseball game Thursday night.  Our seats were great, along the first base line and just a few rows up from the field.   The Dragons play at Fifth Third Field, a beautiful field that is arguably the best thing going [...]

We started back with spring soccer a few weeks and ago but I haven’t been real good about taking photos of it this year for some reason.  Soccer is one of the things that I’ve always enjoyed shoot most.  This weekend I was able to get out and shoot two out of three games in [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]