Scott Roeder Productions » Portraits

Ants vs Eaters Baseball Feature

scaughty — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:27:48 +0000

Jeff Cusick and Danny Bibona from the UCI Baseball team pose for a portrait.

During fall quarter I did a shoot with two of the UCI Baseball team players, Danny Bibona and Jeff Cusick. The article was about Ants vs Eaters baseball series, which is a inter-squad series of games to get them started for the season. The photo turned out pretty good and the photo editor and the sports editor wanted to save it for a later issue so that they could print it bigger and in color.

Long story short, it finally got printed in winter quarter but ended up not getting printed bigger or in color.

Below, assistants Marlon Castillo and Pratik Panda stand in for a test shot.

Nikon D3, 105mm, 100iso, f/18, 1/250, manual

The Breakfast Club (remix)

scaughty — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:07:07 +0000

One of the kids in my dorm was doing a breakfast club remake for her school project. She asked me if I could do the photos so I set some time aside and made it happen.

I used my blue backdrop since it was the only one I had, and just setup a little studio in the living room of my dorm. The shots for her project were done pretty quick, but we spent hours after just taking photos for fun. The rest of the photos can be seen here.

Photoshoot: UCI Baseball Player Francis Larson

scaughty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:31:44 +0000

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 105mm, 125iso, f/8, 1/250, manual
UC Irvine Baseball catcher Francis Larson poses for a portrait.

When I got the call for this photo I knew I wanted to shoot it on a backdrop. I don’t really get to shoot much stuff on a backdrop and wanted to get the studio feel for a change. I realized that I didn’t have any backdrop paper and that I would need to go out and get some before the shoot. I decided to buy a blue one and figured it would be good since its one of our school colors.

I made sure that he brought as much of his gear as possible for props, but also had him in a nice shirt and tie to show the scholarly and professional side of his personality. I originally wanted to have him wearing his uniform underneath his dress shirt but when we actually tried it the photos didn’t turn out as I expected. I had a back up plan and we tried a few different things during the rest of the shoot. These were the shots that I ended up submitting to the paper.

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 105mm, 125iso, f/8, 1/250, manual

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 98mm, 125iso, f/8, 1/250, manual

Thanks to Lee and Panda for helping assist on the shoot, and Ian for doing the interview.

keeping it simple

scaughty — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:50:59 +0000

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 34mm, 500iso, f/2.8, 1/180, manual

UCI Men’s Basketball guard Michael Hunter poses for a quick photo before warming up to play UC Riverside.

I took an assignment to shoot a feature photo of UCI Basketball player Michael Hunter. We tried to get some time with him by contacting the communications person that handles Men’s Basketball, but because of the short notice they said that there wasn’t any time. I decided that I would catch Hunter sometime before the game. I got there a few hours before the game when the team was shooting around and let him know that I needed to get a quick shot of him before the game.

While he was gone I set up one softbox in the narrow hall where the locker rooms are. I didn’t have much room to work with and I wanted to keep it simple. I had two photographers, Lee and Rashmi, helping me setup. In the photo below, Rashmi stands in and tries out a few poses.

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 35mm, 500iso, f/2.8, 1/180, manual

About an hour before the game Michael came back to the Bren Events Center and everything was already set up. I already had the pose decided and all he had to do was stand in. I did the first shot with just his street clothes on.

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 34mm, 500iso, f/2.8, 1/180, manual

After a few shots, he went into the locker room and changed into his uniform. When he came back out we took a few more shots. This is the shot that ran in the paper, although I liked the previous one a little better.

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 35mm, 500iso, f/2.8, 1/180, manual

UCI Spirit Squad coach

scaughty — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:05:33 +0000

(From Left) Clarisse Chavez, Caitlin Matsumoto, Tiffany Chen, Alysia Cornwell, and Melaine Morita all stand in for a portrait.

I shot the photo for the New University’s story on the UCI Spirit Squad coach, Tiffany Chen. It was a quick shoot in the back of the Bren Events Center after a mens basketball game.

I always have an assistant, this time Panda, stand in for a few test shots..

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 80mm, 250iso, f/9, 1/250, manual

Nikon D3, 70-200mm @ 70mm, 125iso, f/7.1, 1/320, manual

making the band on fancy friday

scaughty — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:53:22 +0000

Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 16mm, 100iso, f/10, 1/250, manual

From left: Jaclyn, Ian, Scott, Alex, and Panda. Viento residents along with their RA Scott Roeder (Middle) take some fun pics after finishing up a photo shoot with the band “An Abyss Called Home”.

One of my residents did a Q&A piece on a local band for OC Weekly. We were thinking of a place to shoot and decided on a locker area about 100 feet from my dorm. It actually turned out to be a pretty cool location to shoot at. I shot the photo below for the article.

Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 23mm, 100iso, f/10, 1/250, manual

Below is a screenshot of the photo with the article.

It also just happened to be fancy friday at my dorm (a day where we all dress fancy for fun). With a few more of my residents helping out, we didn’t want to waste the lighting setup on just one photo so after I was done with the band we all stood in for our own photoshoot. The camera was set to timer and we tried our best to get the timing right. Jumping in our fancy clothes might not have been the best idea seeing as somebody ripped their pants (see last photo).

Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 23mm, 100iso, f/10, 1/250, manual

Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 16mm, 100iso, f/10, 1/250, manual

Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 24mm, 100iso, f/10, 1/250, manual