Shooting Tight.

Shooting Tight.
I went to Senior Night at DHHS basketball game. I decided to take some images using my 75-300mm zoom lens.

This was a bigger challenge than I expected.

First the gym is so small, using my full zoom limited what images I could take - even standing on the very back wall. I could not capture the entire logo in the center of the court. Being in such a tight zoom, it was difficult to track the action; making it hard to get any kind of context to the story.

The second challenge surfaced when I decided to play with shutter speed (trying to capture motion). Many of my images came out blurry because of my experimenting. Lesson learned.

I also used too high of an ISO setting, making some of my images grainy.

Over all my photo skills improved throughout the night (even though the images may not show it) as I played with settings. I also took a few images in a wider angle, which I will post later.

In Shooting Tight, this small space the only images that really told a story were those of the faces - which were the easiest to capture. In this tight angle, I was never able to gain context.
Getting the shoot was also difficult because I was so zoomed in I was unable to properly track the movement of players, coaches or the ball. One picture I posted specifically to show the vacuum of a zoom lens which made it impossible to tell what was acutely happening - the movement of the player looks stagnate when in reality he was running down the court.

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This is the image previously mentioned 

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