defeat

My high school's football team finally lost, tying the school's record for 12 wins in a row.
They had a great season :] Im gonna miss going to games and taking pictures.

We have the coolest park right across the street from where we live and there are a bunch of trails and amazing nature stuff up there xD So one day im going to take my camera up there and hopefully get some cool shots :]

determined

despite being completely exhausted during some tough games, our football team is still undefeated :]

sidelines

Guys I have a problemmm!
Friday we're playing our rivals and its the last game of the season. So its uber important! I want to go on the sidelines again because it was really fun and really cool to be down there buuut I was struggling with camera settings. From right on the field the light was different than from in the stands obviously and so I was panicking and a lot of my photos didn't actually turn out that great. (Plus it was freaking pouring the entire time) They were blurry and/or over/under exposed. And for the ones that I did like, I basically got lucky. xD C'est la vie right? ANYWAYS. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this? I dont want to miss things, I want to get the light right AND i want to freeze the players better! Soo I know I need some aperture/shutter advice. I might switch between going in the stands and the sidelines or I might not. I dont know. I'll probably google some night sports photography stuff sometime tomorrow but I thought I'd ask you guys too since you know more than i do :D thanks!

best of both worlds

Yesss, its your lucky day! Film AND football in one post.

Aaand my photography teacher said I can take pictures from the side lines at the game friday! Im super excited and nervous :D haha,

more football

This week hopefully I'll get closer to the field so I actually get some different, better pictures. Its a beast trying to get good pictures with all the movement and the light. I havent quite mastered it yet :P More like cross my fingers and take three hundred pictures, haha.

But also, before everyone gets sick of my football pictures, I need need NEED to get out and take pictures SOON because i haven't gotten out to do my assignment yet -_-
So i promise i'll try and switch it up :P this is just what i've been into photographing right now, :]

Octo-man!

This picture makes me laugh. He looks like an octopus.

Canon 1D Mark II

ISO 1600 | 300mm | f2.8 | 1/800

Play Ball

Im really really sorry I haven't been posting lately. D: That was extremely lame of me.
I haven't been taking photos regularly either which is probably not a good thing...
BUT recently I went to a baseball game (Indians vs Twins) and actually took some pictures. (woah! :P)
And I promise I will try to start posting again. :]

The first guy is Grady Sizemore, and the last two are Shin-Soo Choo

G'day

Hello friends

My apologies for being MIA of late.  Summer classes have ramped back up and I started a new job this past week so my mind has been distracted.

Tallahassee recently had a Highland Games and Celtic Festival, chocked full of weird games.

Battle Axe Throwing Competition

f3.8 | ISO 100 | 1/1250 | 25mm

Weight Over Bar (throw a big weight over head over a bar 20 feet up)

f2.8 | ISO 100 | 1/800 | 105mm

New photo editing software!

This is the 3rd or 4th image I edited with my new copy of Adobe Lightroom 2.0. At the moment, I'm in the middle of editing an event I shot last night with this new software. It is wonderful and a real time savor for editing groups of RAW files at once. At the event I took over 400 photos, and "flagged" the ones I liked. You can do one just adjustment a single photo but then copy the settings and paste them into the other 20 or so all of the same camera settings. It's a great little program. Check out the 30 day trial if you haven't already at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

Random shots taken with my (new) Canon 70-200mm

Last week, I bought my first canon L series lens. I did my home work on the 70-200mm I bought. I ended up getting the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM! It works so well, and it is substantially lighter in weight then the daddy in the 70-200mm family (70-200mm f/2.8 L IS) It is a little shaky at 200mm with out IS, but for $1150 more for the Image Stabilizer feature, I think I'll save my money and just be really steady. This lens handles lens flair really well, and having a constant aperture is really really nice. I have one other lens that is constant aperture and love it! I can't wait to do a real portrait shoot with it, I got it mainly for that reason and to use outdoors.

David on his board.

I have the rest of these up on my blog.
This is David who loves to skateboard. I took a walk over to this location last Monday specifically to try and photograph some skaters. I found David who gladly let me take photos of him. He was a really cool guy. Thanks David! :)

Canon xti, with vertical grip
Canon 85mm f/1.8
1/1600 at f/1.8 ISO 100