back to the baseline, back to basics
Nikon D3, 50mm, 2000iso, f/2.0, 1/800, manual Although basketball is one of my favorite sports to shoot, I feel like it is one of the sports that I need to work on shooting the most. I also feel like shooting with my strobes has limited the ways that I see when I shoot basketball. I [...]
UCI comes close, but fails to advance in the NCAA tournament
Nikon D3, 300mm, 3200iso, f/2.8, 1/800, manualThe UCI Mens Soccer team won the Big West Championship for the second year in a row and earned a first round bye in the NCAA tournament. They also earned the 16th seed in the tournament and got to host Stanford in the second round. I was excited to [...]
back to shooting Volleyball from up top & reflections on the floor
Nikon D3, 300mm, 320iso, f/7.1, 1/250, manual I finally got to use my strobes for the last Women’s home game of the season. It was in the Bren Events Center at UCI which also has higher locations to shoot from. One thing that I noticed from shooting up there were the reflections on the floor. [...]
art gallery assignment
Nikon D3, 50mm, 800iso, f/2.0, 1/320, manual I took an assignment to shoot an art gallery on campus. When I got there it was empty. The only person inside was the person working there. Luckily I had one of my residents from my dorm with me and I had her walk around the gallery so [...]
lighting up a building
Nikon D3, 14-24mm @ 21mm, 160iso, f/16, 8 Sec, manual I took a last minute assignment to shoot a Cafe on campus. At first I took the picture but was immediately unsatisfied. The photo was too plain so I decided to gel two flashes and light up the building from two different angles.
long lens…shorts lens…experimenting with shooting styles
Nikon D3, 300mm, 2500iso, f/2.8, 1/800, manual I’ve been shooting a lot with a 300mm lens. Mainly because I can’t afford a 70-200mm yet. I have noticed a difference in my shooting stye though. I haven’t been getting as close as I used to, although my photos look closer and tighter. Its good to practice [...]
unlearning my laziness & working the sides
Nikon D3, 300mm, 3200iso, f/2.8, 1/640, manual Usually I’m pretty lazy when it comes to shooting soccer and I end up posting myself near the goals and I don’t really move around too much. Its easy to shoot from there, I get faces, good action, the ball, and it never fails. The one thing that [...]
womens volleyball plays, so does the mens team
UCI Women’s Volleyball is on the rise. They have been ranked in the top 25 since the beginning of the year. I have been taking interns with me recently on every assignment. For the volleyball game I was lucky enough to get paired up with one of the residents from my dorm, Rashmi Guttal. The [...]
NCAA College Baseball Regionals – Irvine, Ca – Day 3
Sunday. We finally had a game while the sun was still out, which meant two things: 1) our team had lost a previous game and had to win all the rest to not get eliminated, 2) better for taking photos (ISO 200 rather than 1600). The game was scheduled to start at 4pm and I [...]
NCAA College Baseball Regionals – Irvine, Ca – Day 2
UCI was scheduled to play Virginia at 8pm. Today I was planning on setting up a remote camera, which I decided to set up for a shot at second base. I was told that I would have to set up my remote before 2pm because that is when the players for the 4pm game would [...]