On Monday, my dad and I went to the Celtics game against the Magic. I love basketball, however the main reason we got the tickets was to see our school’s dance team preform during pre game. They were great and the first photo is a photo of them in the beginning of their routine. After the dance, we enjoyed a fantastic game that resulted in the Celtics winning by 31 points! Which, for those who don’t follow basketball, is a lot of points to win by. Do you enjoy watching your local sports teams compete? I sure do! When you support a local team, you get to enjoy watching them play more than you would a non-local team and this allows you to get to know the players. Granted, you may not actually have met them, but you get used to seeing them and you may start appreciating them a little more. I play on a high school basketball team and it is great to see fans coming back to our games, game after game! However, I must confess one thing… most of the fans, are our parents.
For these pictures, I borrowed my friend Noah’s 55-250mm lens. He takes great pictures, and if you haven’t checked out his pictures, you should, they’re spectacular. Anyways, I had to borrow this lens because my dad and I were sitting in the second to last row in the balcony (which is at a pretty startling angle). However, because of the long focal length of 250mm (is that the right word? I wanted to say ‘because of the long zoomyness’ but I know thats not the classiest way to put it), I could really single out the action and I really like the results. Some of the images are cropped, resulting in some noise. Sorry about that! Hope you enjoy even with the extra noise, because you know what they say, the more, the merrier!
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Comments on: "Week 4 – Mid Motion (Picture 1 – At the Celtics)" (11)
Great shots! They look a lot closer and up-front than I’d have thought you could get at a pro game. You’ve certainly nailed the action.
Our favorite local team is the New Britain Rock Cats, a AA form team for the Minnesota Twins. It’s a small field, so you can hear the crack of the ball against the bat or the smack of it into the catcher’s mitt. There’s nothing like a minor league ball game on a lazy summer afternoon or a warm golden evening.
You got some great action shots there…
I do love this series!
Great stop action athletic images.
You got some great shots, Jeremy – and there is not really very much noise either. What setting did you use for the shots?
Aperture Priority
I love the angle where you are looking down at all of the action…you really got some marvelous stop the action shots!
I love following our local sports…our favorites to follow here in Omaha. is the Creightan Blue Jay basketball and the UN-O Mavericks (hockey) and naturally our very own Husker Football! đŸ™‚
Nice gallery here Jeremy!
Great shots of the bb game. I know from experience how hard it is to anticipate the shot before its gone never to be frozen in tme.
Basketball has to be my favorite sport to watch……one reason being that it’s always a comfortable temperature. Plus I love the fast action. We have three grandsons who range in age from 9-12 that are all on different teams…two of them are on two teams each. That equals a lot of games for us right now! In our local school gyms we don’t have seats behind the baskets so I was particularly impressed with the facial expressions you were able to capture of the players at the net. Great job!
Great action shots, hope you and your Dad enjoyed it.