Boys' Basketball

GvilleRick · Dec 1, 2023

A few shots from the boys' basketball game that I shot on Tuesday. I used my Samyang 35-150 f/2-2.8 for about 75% of the shots and my Sony 70-200 f/2.8 GM2 for the rest. I just noticed that all of these were with the Samyang.

I don't think a foul was called.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
58.0 mm
ƒ/2.2
1/500 sec
ISO 2000

21 is one of the top rated players in the region and saw a lot of double coverage.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/500 sec
ISO 1600

Fighting for the rebound.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 6400

I also made a copy of this and cropped on the players on the right but I liked this shot showing everyone's attention on the action.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 5000

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 5000

Really close at this point.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 5000

GvilleRick · Jan 14, 2024

A few shots from a boys' basketball game from Thursday night. I only used my Samyang 35-150mm lens.

I got this shot as the player stole the ball and was going in for a dunk.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 5000

I wasn't on the right side of the goal to get the face in the dunk shot but did like this shot.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 6400

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
70.0 mm
ƒ/2.5
1/1000 sec
ISO 6400

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
76.0 mm
ƒ/2.5
1/1000 sec
ISO 6400

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 5000

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
35.0 mm
ƒ/2
1/1000 sec
ISO 3200

GvilleRick · Jan 15, 2024

Brownie said:
That lens does a nice job! Please consider starting a thread for it in the Lens Image Sample forum.

I have been pleased with it. Where I used to carry my 28-75 and 70-200 I now just take the one lens. I noticed in looking through my Lightroom catalog that it has been my most used lens over the past several months.

I did create a thread in the Lens Image Sample forum for it. I didn't see a thread for the Tamron 35-150mm. It would be interesting to compare images.

GvilleRick · Feb 9, 2024

I shot my last basketball game for the season last night and decided to play around with Photoshop to get a composite shot of a freethrow.

Here is the player at the line about to shoot.

ILCE-7RM5
SAMYANG AF 35-150mm F2-2.8
45.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/1000 sec
ISO 10000

This is a composite of the next 11 shots with the last image as the main image.

This is a composite of 16 shots with the 1st image (just after the ball left his hand) moved to the bottom to be the main image.

One more composite of the 11 shots but this time with the 1st image moved to the bottom of the stack to be the main image.

GvilleRick · Feb 15, 2025

Thought I would just add more photos to this thread so I have shots from the past three seasons (since I switched from Pentax to Sony.) Shots from Senior Night. There was a ceremony between the two games to recognize the seniors and their families. I created composite photos that had a shot of the family at the ceremony and a couple of action shots of the senior during the game. Here are some of the shots from the boys' game.

Catching a pass at half-court.