Gerald Herbert insists on making sure he provides the best coverage possible when photographing New Orleans’ NBA team. That means laboriously hanging remote cameras in the Pelicans’ arena hours before every home game. For their game against the Lakers on April 17, Herbert got a sweet spot right behind the backboard glass.
FILE - New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson goes to the basket against Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis and forward Taurean Prince in the first half of an NBA basketball play-in tournament game Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New Orleans. Looking on at rear left is Lakers’ LeBron James.NEW ORLEANS — It allowed him to capture Pelicans star Zion Williamson as he goes to the basket against Anthony Davis while LeBron James watches the action.
Although I used to hang a remote camera behind the glass backboard, the real estate has become scarce, so I have been hanging two remotes: one on the stanchion and one overhead in the rafters above. Every game I put in the extra hours to set them up and test them. It increases my workload, setting up and tending to three cameras and it slows down my edit with the extra images but, in the end, it makes my basketball report look more dynamic.
Given that space is competitive, I set this remote up with little fuss to stay out of the way. Although photographers normally mask off the remote with black foil and tape to eliminate the reflections, I opted to leave that out for now to be as quick an inobtrusive as possible with the setup. I don’t want to overextend my welcome. When a team like the Lakers come to town, it draws a lot more media, a larger TV viewing audience, more cameras and people, less space.
I trigger my remotes with my thumb on a button mounted on the lens barrel of my primary camera that I am hand holding. My remotes are on the far goal where I am not present to increase my chances of capturing key plays by keeping both ends of the court covered. I can’t always see what is going on downcourt, so if bodies are moving toward the basket, I hammer on the button, and wait to see what I got later during the edit.
As my dear colleague J. Scott Applewhite likes to say: “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” An excellent credo to live by.
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