After two covering Basketball the last two weekends, I started looking for new concepts and looks this week as the Spartans celebrated their Senior night and took on Westminster.
Basketball has a lot of repetition to the game flow. Drive, shoot, rebound, retreat. If you photograph from the same viewpoint, you end up with repetitive images.
One concept I’ve had in mind after the first weekend was to catch a high flying player in isolation (or maybe with a second player) going up for a layup, dunk or rebound against the backdrop of the student section. Unfortunately, GAC’s Trent Wiedeman missed tonight’s game so I was left without the tallest man on the floor. I was also short a few student’s in the student section as the school’s winter break started Friday.
I shot from the opposite end of the floor with the 300/f2.8.
I’m always on the look out for anything that shows the team together, getting ready for the game.
Boxing out for the rebound on a free throw, this time shot from mid-court:
And finally, on defense and using the opponent’s point guard to help frame up my subject: