I photographed the last Raiders basketball game of 2008 at the Plymouth Pavilions last weekend which is always an interesting challenge; I’ve written on here in previous posts about the difficult conditions at the basketball arena; it’s pretty much dark in there, there’s no flash photography permitted, and yet you have to freeze the action of athletes competing in a very fast paced sport. For this game I used a 70-200 2.8 VRII Nikon lens on a D3 body and pushed the ISO out to 6400 to get a shutter speed of 1/500th and the images still look great; I don’t normally have the need to shoot at such a high ISO but it’s good to know that when it’s required I can still deliver high quality images even under the worst shooting conditions.
