Snowboarding/Rugby

I finally got up to the mountain for Friday's evening/night sesh.  That was my first time snowboarding this season.  Let me tell you it was good to be back! I have a severe case of the snow fever now.  Snowboarding is fun as @#$%!

Shot a rugby game Saturday. Rugby is a bad ass sport with bad ass athletes.  It really is fun to watch.  Again, I'm not impressed with either my sports shooting skills, or my camera's autofocus.  Shutter speeds were a little low this time.  Maybe that was my problem.  I'm curious to see how things turn out in the future sports-wise.  Anyways, here are the results:

After this it was cleat to face.  ouch.
Straight interlocked manliness
And again...


There are many kinds of weird, brotherhoodish, rituals that go on in this sport.  Pleasing the crowd is just one of them.

On another note, there is a rail jam on campus tomorrow.  I'm straight stoked to shoot that.  Finally, something to shoot in my area of interest!  Let's just see what happens!

PLEASE DON'T RAIN TOMORROW!

-Scott

Light Painting Night

So tonight I took a break from school work to attend a "light painting" little presentation thingy.  I was over it pretty quick but here are two weird shots I got.  I swear if I hear the word "capture" again... I'm gonna lose it.  If I ever say "capture" on this blog, feel free to slap me next time you see me.  Too artsy in my book.

So here is a dog that made a guest appearance. 
Lots of photographers trying to figure out what the heck they are doing.
Yet another self portrait...

stay fly ya'll

Poetry Reading

I spent 14 hours at school today.  Here are some snaps from this week's assignment.  I don't know what was wrong with my eye today but I just could not manually focus.  It sucked!  Nothing is worse than coming back to realize that 90% of your photos are blurry.  (overstatement, I know..)  I would be a happy man if a box with a nice, quick AF 85mm fell from the sky and landed at my feet.

Good Night!

The second and final Vintage Monday

While its still Monday, I'm scrapping the whole "Vintage Monday" idea.  I don't have time and don't see it worth the time spent anyways.  Tough week ahead.  We'll see what happens.

lax game

Shot another lax game today.  Learnin more every time. Can't wait till track season!

b/w just doesn't work for rainbows...

big hits (and vignettes!)
I got caught with a camera...

This picture really makes our school look like its in a forest...

Pole: Which pointless symbol do you like more? In other words, which looks more like a camera? ... be it digital or film.

1) [IÔ]

2) [ Ô ]

Actually I'm not really sure if a pole is worth anything because probably only 5 people look at this thing and what am I going to do with 5 votes..... there are other variations as well. I decided to keep it simple.  And if you're too embarrassed or lazy to post on my blog, email me or something!

Another Weekend

Probably too many photos and not enough homework this weekend.  Shot a pool for assignment no. 1 and a lacrosse game for assignment no. 2.

I got to borrow a waterproof Olympus for 2 days.  Dunking a camera underwater goes against everything I have ever learned and it felt extremely wrong and weird. I wouldn't mind a waterproof, freezeproof, and crushproof camera of my own.




LAX was fun to shoot but I found many of my pictures out of focus.  K10D not a sports camera?...or Scott not a sports photographer?  

Saturday morning self portrait.  Emo, pretentious, and vain eh? Whatever.

Later!

Paper Studio

Thought I'd procrastinate a little today and play around with the camera.  I set up a piece of paper and bounced the 383 off the roof.  White balancing in PP was the hardest thing ever!  Right when you think you have it, you go to the next photo, come back, and it looks too green or blue or pink!  Its not helping that they are all here next to each other now.

Last weekend's fun.
Room mate's "quikfish"
Shell
Good luck charm.  An old present.
And quite possibly the most valuable thing in my life right now.  Without these my manual focus skills would be non-existant.   These bad boys beat glasses any day. Only downside is when downhilling...if dirt gets in there...it's not goin anywhere!

PEACE!

Tomato Soup

No real pics today.  Got some groceries on the way home tonight.  I used to hate tomato soup but after the Crater Lake shenanigan, it gained my respect.  I think every time I eat some tomato soup, I'm going to think of Crater Lake whether I like it or not.

Paper snowboarder Dan Treadway checkin out tonight's soup dinner.

lata

Ghetto Vintage Monday #2

So... I slacked and didn't take G5 shots for this Monday.  Still in developmental stages obviously... 

Here are some old ones:

No insightful thoughts on anything either.

Bluegrass

Last week's assignment had me shooting Siskiyou Summit, a local bluegrass band.  It was fun... but I felt limited as to where/how I could shoot.  There was student dancing in the back but whenever I went back there, they got all shy and quit dancing.  I haven't thought about much in the photography department this last week.  Hopefully that will change this coming week.


Glenn insisted that I took a picture of his old guitar.  I asked about it and he told me a interesting story about how he bought it from a fan a while back.  This was most definitely an "experienced" guitar.  A friend of mine inspired me to talk to the subjects more on assignments.  I thought it was a good suggestion and thats a new goal of mine.  
A donation from the crowd.

This was my other assignment last week.  Exciting!

peace

oops

Dislocated my thumb playing b ball monday night.  Makes manual focusing a bit difficult!

Just kidding! That's my (normal) right hand.
Fat person thumb!

Good thing it wasn't my right hand!  Do they make left handed cameras?

"Hey Ya"

So, I came across this program called Poladroid yesterday and kind of liked it for its simple and creative possibilities.  I'm thinking about theming each Monday "Vintage Monday" and posting "polaroids" from the previous week.  Today I busted out the old G5 and hauled it around school in search of old school shots.  I thought the G5 would be nice because it lacks DOF, has a quiet shutter, and is already cropped more square than the K10d.  I even flipped the LCD backwards and looked through the crappy viewfinder too.  Not all are from today, but some are.  I'm not sure if this theme will last or not...we'll see.

            

If you're curious about the program, its:   www.poladroid.net

Its really simple and could be much better... but its entertaining for a minute.

"shake it like a polaroid picture"