In the Spotlight
I shot a basketball on my pergo floor in my home studio. Overhead I used a Canon 580EX flash at 1/8 power with shipping tube over flash head to create the spotlight look. I positioned a second 580EX at 1/32 power on floor with snoot pointed directly at ball to give a bit of fill to the lower half of ball.
I was quite pleased with the way this turned out. By looking at the image itself, you would think it was taken on a basketball court floor, rather than a basement studio.
Below shows how the shot was setup:
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Hi David,
My name is Lisa and I have a business utilizing photos and scrabble tiles and make them into pendants. I affix a photo to the tile, and varnish it with a protective coating. I sell the pieces at festivals and fairs.
I was interested in using your basketball image as one of my pendants and wanted to talk with you more about that. I have searched many basketball images and really love yours–it would make an excellent pendant. It’s very interesting!
Have a great day,
Lisa LaFarga-Stevens
you are a genius who shares his knowledge.
Ok now I am stalking so I won’t bother with you again til after the ftball season
On to BAsketball!
Again thanks so much for your willingness to share your expertise
carol
Ps. I got my first camra in 6th grade a Kodax 124 ah the good times!
Hello Sir
I’ve read your post here concerning you using strobes and your flashes during the basketball match. I have a similar problem.
I’ve been to a student ball, in a tall mansion, where the ceiling is pretty high, I have only a Canon Speedlite 430EX II. I usually use the bounce technic which works pretty well, but in this ball the ceiling was too high, and my only solution was to point the flash on the subject, with kinda overexposed it. I was wondering if you had a solution for a such a high and dark room. I’d like to know if strobes are really that useful or are “omnibounce” balls that you hang over the flash work better.
I’d also liked to know what does the M 1/1 mean on the flash, instead of ETTL, is the 1/1 represent the syncing shutter speed, if so which is best for ball portraits of students in such room?
I’d appreciate a response on my email address: writevli@gmail.com
Thank you,
Vlad.