Georgia forward Trey Thompkins (33) goes for a slam dunk as Tennessee faces Georgia in the first half of an NCAA men's basketball game at Stegeman Coliseum on Sat. Jan. 23, 2010 in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/David Manning)
Nikon D2x 16mm fisheye, 1/500@f/4 1600 ISO
Generally at basketball I will set up a few remote cameras. Sometimes you get positive results and sometimes you pull it off and then some.
The principle is simple. One camera in my hands at all time and then 2-3 cameras located elsewhere on the court. There's the overhead/catwalk shot (for those who are daring enough to set stuff up 80 feet in the air), there's the backboard shot (which requires getting there 4 hours early just to set the camera up), there's the under the basket/on the pole shot (one of my favorites) and then you've got the floorplate remote. Easiest thing to do is to have them all fire at the same time.
This time we went a lil more over the top then usual. My friend Daniel Shirey was setting up a backboard camera so i figured that the more, the merrier. You can only get 2 cameras on a backboard as there's only room for 2. That one had the D2x and a 16mm lens. I wanted something under each basket so i put one on the pole on a D1H with a 14mm/3.5 and the other had a D70s on a floorplate with a 24/2.8 lens. The 14mm didnt get anything good, everything was too far away. The 24mm had a few good things as well as the backboard.
The handheld shot. Nikon D700 1600 ISO 1000/2.8
The floorplate shot: Nikon D70s 1600 ISO 1000/2.8
But every once in awhile, you'll get the exact same play, the exact same moment, from 3 different angles.
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