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Mark Feldstein |
To answer your question, it'd be useful for you to provide us with some additional information, like what is or isn't happening with your photos, what kind of equipment you're shooting with and what you'd like to accomplish besides getting "good photos". Take it light. Mark
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robert G. Fately |
What Samuel and Mark are trying to day (Samuel's response was on the other copy of this question) is that you need to be alittle more specific, but odds are it has to do with the relatively low light levels in a gym along with the need to use relatively high shutter speeds in order to freeze motion. Protography involves the compromise of shutter speed and f-stop to get enough light to the film or sensor (as dictated by its sensitivity). Higher sensitivity means more grain in film, more noise in chips (and there's a limit as to how sensitive they can get as well). So, for a given light requirement (sensitivity setting), you need X number of photons to hit the chip. They can come in through a big hole in the lens (large aperture) for a short time (fast shutter speed or vice versa; makes little difference in most cases. However, when shooting moving objects (like basketball players) you want that high shutter speed to freeze the action. Meaning that you must have a "fast" lens - one with a low aperture number. In addition, from the sidelines or crowds you are not very close to the players, so you want a telephoto lens to "get closer". Thus we see there are lenses like the 80-200 f2.8 zoom lens - big, fast, heavy, and not cheap. But the reason for its existence is just such occassions as this.
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robert G. Fately |
One more thought - the reason you see those fabulous shots in Sports Illustrated etc. is that those shooters have banks of flash lights in the rafters (where they won't blind the players and are hardly noticeable to the fans) that are triggered with radio remote control. So it's unlikely you can ever match what they can do on a limited budget. At least one limited to less than $20,000.
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