Both my daughter and my niece had basketball games in Albuquerque this past Memorial Day weekend. I was in sports shooter heaven! I rented a Nikon D700 for the occasion and used a combination of my 24-70 f/2.8 and 70-200 f/2.8 VR1 glass to capture the action. The D700 kicks my D300's butt on low light sensitivity. We even got to see a WNBA exhibition between the LA Sparks and Phoenix Mavericks at The Pit...lot's of fun. I'll post some of the WNBA shots in a later post.I shot all the pics with manual exposure...why?
Some angles had white walls in the background and then some darker bleacher backgrounds. This seemed to confuse the exposure metering and I would get inconsistent exposures during sequences...and yes I tried the different matrix, spot, and medium spot modes. Since the court was relatively equally lit, by manually exposing, I avoided problems with auto metering. I then ran the images through Nikon Capture NX2 using the Auto Adjust, and they came out great. Shot jpg Fine.
