During games I try to take a few minutes from shooting the normal stock action and focus on other things. For this shot I was at the USC versus Oklahoma basketball game. I found a hotspot on the court (from the lights) while I was walking around the arena on the top level. So I grabbed my 70-200 and 1.4 extender, exposed for the hotspot to make it silhouette the players and turn their shadows black. (iso 200, shutter speed 1000, and f5.6) The color in the floor is a color shift from the lights.
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The hotspot on the court

Here are some other general shots from the game, mostly OJ Mayo…actually all four.

I had to take a photo of OJ Mayo’s Shoes for work.


OJ Mayo as he is announced in the starting line up. (They lowered the lights and put a spot on him, I layed on the ground underneath 3 giant bball players to get a shot.

Touchdown! Shot laying on the ground with a 70-200 with a 1.4 teleconverter.

Sack! Shoot from directly behind (near goal post) with a 400mm 2.8 and 1.4x converter.

This shot was taken in the tunnel before the game. 16-35mm lens on Canon 1d MArk III

A hail mary under hand shot while he was signing autographs. I used a canon 1d mark III and a 16-35 2.8 at 16 and faced it straight up, the camera was almost touching the ground underneath him.