Tilt It Like It’s Hot…?

08Nov09

So, I wasn’t exactly planning on shooting anything this weekend, but somethings changed and I ended up shooting two assignments for the Messenger.  I enjoy shooting for the Mess because it gives me plenty of room and time to play and try new things.  I usually will spend the first half or quarter or period or what have you shooting straight forward stuff and get a handful of good peak action shots that would be good to run for the paper.  After that I pretty much have free range to shoot however I feel like.  Well this weekend I decided to get a 85mm tilt shift and play with that.  I’ve always been drawn to work with tilts whether it be Laforet or Burnett or anyone really.  So, one thing I’ve been wanting to do is collect a series of sports action shots with tilt shifts, and I finally got around to taking a step towards that this weekend.  So here’s one tilted volleyball and one tilted basketball for your viewing pleasure.

 

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Runnin’ on Empty

28Oct09

So, I am about one hour away from pulling the first true all nighter of my college career, and I feel that a celebratory blog post is in order.  This is a photo I’ve been meaning to put up for awhile.  Don’t really know how I feel about it yet, so any feedback would be great.

 

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Cross Country

16Oct09

So, I covered a Cross Country meet this week.  I almost forgot how hard these races can be, and how much the athletes really put into it.  Especially when its about 40 degrees outside.

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Mud Football

11Oct09

So, I was sent to cover the Alexander-Nelsonville York football game friday night.  It took me about an hour and a half to find the place, I didn’t get there until the start of the 3rd quarter, the field and the sidelines were complete mud, I didn’t bring proper rain gear, and of course, the lights were crappy
But aside from that, it was a pretty cool game.  Alexander has never beaten Nelsonville in almost 40 years of playing them.  Well, that changed friday when they won 21-0.  The team went out on to the “field” (i.e. mud patch) and celebrated like they won the state championship as my editor said they
would.  I was having a hard enough time running around trying to get the shots and not falling face first in mud with all of my gear.  This was about
one of the only frames that I even got in focus of the celebration.  I hope it was all worth it.

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Playin’

09Oct09

So, I shot a high school volleyball game last night.  Trimble and Waterford went to 5 games and I had plenty of time to play around a bit after I got some of the “safer” type of shots for the paper.  Trimble has a pretty interesting gym which includes a giant mural of a cat breaking through the wall and a crazy three armed devil fan (see last picture).

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