Holiday Hoops
My assignment last night had me shooting more high school hoops… the local paper and TV station sponsored a tournament for all of the area high schools and there were several games. The photo above is of Michael Glover from Spotswood HS — his team beat Charlottesville HS 48-47 in pretty dramatic fashion. Spotswood led 48-46 with 4 seconds left, CHS inbounded to their star Kevin Leatherwood who drove in the lane and was fouled. Leatherwood hit his first free throw while the second shot fell short. Game over.
I lit the gym, much as I have done in the past. Two Canon 580EX Speedlights, manual mode, 1/2 power, zoomed at 50mm (it’s very important to make sure custom function #14 on these model is set to “1″, else your lights will auto power off). With that, I was able to roughly get 1/250, f/4.5, iso640… not bad for a cave. I used a hot-shoe to PC adapter attached to each strobe and then attached on the bottom to the little feet/stand that comes with the flash. The foot is then attached to the base plate of a magic arm with super clamp and attached to the top of the bleachers in the two corners on the side that I’m shooting. I connected the flash via the PC port on the adapter to a PocketWizard Multimax, positioned the light to shine roughly just above the free throw line/key area and test to make sure everything works. I then attach a safety cable to tie down anything that could fall if someone were to bump/mess with my light and I’m good to go. It takes about 4 minutes per light, 8-10 minutes total.
