Lighting a Basketball Court
I have had a lot of recent success using a couple of battery flashes to light my school’s basketball court. I have been placing the flashes at the corners of the court by the bleachers. This works best with two lights, but one works fine if you keep it to your back. The important thing is getting some light coming in from the sides instead of straight down.
Flashes at the corners of the court. They are both set at 1/4 power.
Unlike the court strobes in the ceiling of the court, these small things can’t replace the arena lighting. They do provide much more reliable and quality light, converting the nasty whatever color light to daylight. They also provide plenty of fill on the players and work great to stop the motion. the second light gives a great highlight to the ball and the edge of the players as they come in closer to the end line as well.
The flash puts some nice light on the players close in. This was with the 35 1.8. You can see what the light would look like without flash in the shadows.
