How can i take a photo that looks like this?
Also sports photos general.
>>2814710
Get on the side line of a basketball game, shoot fast color film, or a very low resolution digital sensor, lower your contrast, lower your saturation, and tint towards cyan in the mid tones, and lift your blacks.
>>2814715
Thank you for an actual response.
>>2814710
Something looks different about this. Is it medium format?
Someone on IRC said a while back that the blue tint is from the audience smoking indoors.
I guess if that's true you'd be hard put to reproduce the look faithfully nowadays. Unless the vaping meme continues to grow.
>>2814735
That kinda makes sense. I also assume stadium lighting is completely different nowadays than it was back then. Oh well, might be one of those looks that cant really be re-created.
>>2814735
That's exactly what it is. Kids these days don't remember indoor smoking and so photos like these blow their fucking minds.
Hell, it kind of blows my mind too. Atmospheric perspective.. INSIDE! Fucking nuts.
>>2814715
Nice
>>2814710
>>2814735
Petapixel claims it's cigarette smoke indoors as has been pointed out.
>>2814733
It's likely that it was shot medium format, yes. Here are some other examples.
>>2814710
>>2814710
>How can i take a photo that looks like this?
Go back in time. The uniforms don't look like that anymore, and the hairstyle is a lot less common. Plus they don't let you smoke indoors these days.
Fucking hell these look sexy. Who cares if smoking kills. It's totally worth it.
>>2814902
>photographer's face when he receives the negatives back and finds he nailed focus
>>2814733
>Is it medium format?
Why do people keep thinking medium format has a "look"? Medium format is just sharper than small format with the same film, nothing else. The same scene taken with the same FOV lens will look exactly the same apart from reduced grain.
>>2815030
>tfw you'll never know this feeling
>>2814899
funny how it looks like a weird montage
>>2814899
>tfw you will never shoot the Game of the Century back when Houston was still a relevant basketball powerhouse and the Astrodome was a brand new stadium of the future and sporting events were filled with a dramatic atmospheric haze from all the smoking.
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>>2815166
No, noob.
>>2815166
Idiot can't into DOF calculations on larger formats.
>>2815166
>He doesn't know what depth of field is
HA! Point at him and laugh.
I cant believe no one has mentioned strobes yet. Freezing action like this with slow film needed the extra kick. There is no way this was done with available light even with a fast prime without some motion blur
>>2815166
>what is equivalent focal length and perspective
>>2815380
Ughh really doesn't look like any flash was used for this...
>>2815397
What? if you're implying that he's wrong (which he isn't) feel free to compose an actual thought and sentence so we can help you to understand.
The only "look" you get with medium format that you don't get with 35mm would be the potential for a narrow depth of field (not present here) and the aspect ratio
>>2815401
Nope, also much less distortion thanks to the lens focal lengths
>>2815401
Different focal lengths have a different look to them. Different placement of the photographer relative to the subject causes a different perspective and looks different.
6x9 MF let's you stand at the distance of 50 mm would on 135 format while using a 90mm lens. This is where the "look" comes from. It's subtle, but the combination of a certain perspective with a certain focal length gives a different feel to the final product which is difficult to put your finger on but does make a difference.
>>2815415
>much less distortion thanks to the lens focal lengths
Blatantly false
>>2815417
>Different focal lengths have a different look to them
Blatantly false.
>Different placement of the photographer relative to the subject causes a different perspective and looks different.
True, but if your lens has an equivalent FOV (which is what was said) then you don't need a different camera placement, and therefore you don't get a different perspective.
>>2815181
We just have to vapemore m8
>>2815415
>>2815417
Perspective is determined entirely by your position and has absolutely nothing to do with focal length in the slightest, please learn the first goddamn thing on perspective so that you can learn how to use it properly. Standing 20 feet from your subject using a 50mm lens on 35mm or standing 20 feet away using a 90mm lens on 6x9 film will give you exactly the same perspective because in both cases you are 20 feet away and that is the only part that matters.
Thanks for making this thread into yet another argument about gear and muh full frame equivalents, though.
>>2815380
>what are stadium lights
>>2815166
Guy you were replying to here. I've got 35mm & medium format cameras but I'm new to it all.
The larger negative means that the field of view on a 75mm focal-length is roughly the same as the field of view on my 40mm rangefinder. But there's more of a difference than just being less grainy and square.
Shooting the same subject at f4 1/60th you get the same exposure but the bokeh is different. It looks kinda like it's been shot at a wider aperture, but a little bit different in a way I can't quite put my finger on.
>tfw thanks to digital sports photography will never look this good again
>>2815598
Thought you were meming hard, then looked through some recent basketball photography.
>by jove he's right
>>2815604
>another one just learned that digital is an absolute joke compared to film
>>2815609
>just learned
More like I am always reminded of it. Every time I see a movie trailer and it looks like a soap opera. But most of the time it seems like I am the only one bothered by the look of digital.
>>2815619
what
>>2815609
I shoot film but I also absolutely believe in digital.
I would not have been able to shoot 1000 pictures a month and improve my game so much without digital.
Each medium format shot I take costs me 50c so I can't shoot away to make sure I get the moment. I can't afford to experiment too much.
But, since I'm not a sports fan, I didn't know sports photography had panned so hard.
I had to scroll through pages to find a b-ball pic I'd even bother to post to my facebook friends.
>>2815626
Old Kodak was apparently racist for being better at dealing with skin that objectively reflected more light.
1) Get a Cammer ( NC speak for camera )
2) Go to tree ball game
3) take picture of nigger and tree ball
>>2815619
Did someone say kodak black?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_mWyjJQxWg
>>2815181
Good lord... The spectators are so far away from the action. Sure were different times...
>>2815604
A film photo taken at the same time wold look nearly identical.
>>2814715
Nah man they've got a good vert they can lift themselves.
>>2815380
I believe this is true. I remember reading somewhere that most (professional) stadiums today are lit well enough that strobes aren't really necessary anymore.
>>2815863
So are you saying this photo was taken today? Nah bro
Even with a well lit stadium you would be lucky to shoot over 1/1000 with an iso lower than 1600-3200 now.
With slower film speeds like asa 400 you wouldnt be able to push your shutter speeds too high back then without the use of a strobe.
Many stadiums today still have multiple strobes throughout and the photographer will use triggers when needed.
>>2815810
The Astrodome was a baseball stadium, it was only adapted for use for basketball for that one game because it was the highest attended basketball game ever at the time or something like that and also the first college basketball game broadcast on television, I believe.
the celtics photographer is pretty good imo
>tfw bluish-white lights
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>>2815949
>tfw women's basketball
Obviously film.
Not so obviously strobes.
I feel like using strobes during a basketball game would be a bad move given that it could screw up the subject's vision.
>>2816048
If anything, they'd be diffused or indirect.
>>2815873
Sorry I meant that strobes were used to take OP's picture, not as much today.
>>2816282
They weren't.
