Big Cookie!!!

Ok, so I got a little over-excited today when the Sugar and Spice bakery had their special monster cookies in the union. Not only did I buy one but I...



practiced being a strobist with one. Ok, so the lighting set-up is not too elaborate or exciting but hey, I never plan on becoming a food photographer so I do not really care. Anyway, I tried using a monster-lighting technique on the Monster Cookie (get the irony? hehehehe).

Seriously though, I have to finish my paper over the NYT Magazine's photo usage for Steve Raymer's class and I need to practice some lighting techniques for an upcoming photoshoot of the Collin's Assassin's Guild. Hopefully all works out well... I am going to try to go for a wrap-around lighting look kind of similar to what is seen here:

http://flickr.com/photos/ajorgensen/2397643698/

I doubt I will get the same effect since I will only be using two canon flashes and the sun as my three lights but we shall see! I will post the results from my practice shoot as soon as I can.

Update:

Here are my efforts in my valiant attempt to create a cool, side-lit portrait earlier this evening--I am open to suggestions please!







Hehehehe... we ended up getting a "Magnum" pose courtesy of Derek Zoolander--did not turn out bad at all--haha!

IU Men's Soccer vs. Mexico Youth National Team

So I was asked Monday night to shoot the annual IU Men's soccer matchup against the Mexico Youth National Team. Stressed out with papers and needing something fun to do, I took up the offer, reserved the 20d and 300lens, and checked it out. It was my second sporting event sporting the Canon 20d and I will say, it is definitely wonderful. Blows the Nikon d2h out of the water in image quality and the autofocusing mechanism is not too bad either. I will most definitely look into investing in a 20d or 30d this summer if I am lucky. My second body XTi was working out well with the 70-200 lens which surprise me due to its somewhat lackluster autofocus system. Anyways, here is the link to my results--a slideshow was put up on the IDS's website.

IU Men's Soccer vs. Mexico Youth National Team slideshow

Image number four was my money shot for the night and I hope to post it up here tomorrow. Also have to love the randomness of the Mexico crowd. A guy actually showed up dressed as a luchador--crazy! Those Mexicans sure made the Hoosier fan section look like crap. Oh, and try to disregard the silly grammatical errors in the captions.

This was my shot of the night:

It was shot tight, too, with only a little trimming action around the edges to center the action better in the frame. It kind of sucks though--so many people shoot wide with large file sizes and then crop in to make it look as if they shot tight, I feel as if my photo's effect is slightly lessened because of this. Oh well, the experienced eye can tell this was shot tight due to the short depth of field so I do not feel as bad...

First post!

So people say that it is helpful to keep journals on a daily basis so why not give it a shot, eh? Maybe now I will be able to remember when the events I am supposed to shoot photos are so I do not miss them... enjoy the random sporadic postings of mine!


I checked out some work on strobist to motivate myself before this shoot of a Little 500 student coach for the Arbutus. Shot around 1/200th at 20f at 100 ISO with flash at max, it worked out decent enough.

Some Little 500 stuff:

Phi Psi in a team huddle before men's Little 500 race


In the chaotic photographer frenzy at the men's race finish, I snapped this shot of Cutter team member Clayton Feldman with his girlfriend (L). I believe it says so much more than the typical "screaming, hugging, celebrating shot.