Photo of the Day
Tonight I was in Williamsport to watch a high school basketball game. Of course I took my camera, but for some reason things were just not going well for me. I have had that happen before where I seem to be just a step slow. The last game that I shot I thought I was on it, but not tonight. I did get some good pictures, but I had this idea for a wide angle shot. I have seen in before in magazines, but part of the learning process is to try everything. I decided to give this baseline image a try. My original idea was to do it remotely with my Rebel while I shot the game normally. Since I didn’t have the correct cable for that I spent a good part of the second quarter of the JV game waiting for the action to come to me. I really needed a bunch of action in this corner of the court or this would not be an interesting shot.
I really would not normally have taken this shot, but the gym was a very interesting older facility. When I walked in I was not pleased with the lighting. Of course part of that lighting is what gave this shot its charm. As I said I shot for a while during the JV game trying to get this image, but the players were not cooperating. What were they thinking staying in the offense? Didn’t they know art was in progress on the far wing? I went back down during the varsity game hoping that I would have another shot at making this image. I didn’t immediately get low enough, and on the first possession of the game the play that I wanted happened. Of course I did not get the shot. It was a while before the play came near me again. When it did my settings failed me. I was in aperture priority mode, and the picture was too dark. From there I did what I should have done very early on, and went to full manual mode. I ended up with this picture of a player passing the ball down low, and I decided that I had my image for the night. I will have to try this again when I am not missing so much of the action doing it.
Technical Data
Not much was done here in post. I simply imported the shot with the light sports preset into Lightroom with the rest of the shots from tonight. After import I got rid of the vignette around the frame to start off. It made the edges way too dark here. After that all that I did was to up the highlights, and bring back some of the shadow detail.
Dave Wegiel Photography 