Snow!!

I love the snow and since moving to Corvallis for school I have started to miss it. I grew up in Central Oregon where it snows quite often. It usually is only a few inches here and there but its a hell of a lot more then you get in the Willamette Vally. So last night when it started to snow (and stick) I got pretty excited.

Today is press conference day for OSU and the room that this is held in overlooks the football field. I only had one lens with me today so I didn't have a ton of options for a photo but I did what I could.

Last Home Game

Last year I promised myself that I would shoot more volleyball because I need to get better at it and because it is pretty fun. I failed and shot maybe 4 games this year. This sucks because it takes time to find new angles when the first couple of games are spent trying to get as many stock photos of players as possible. Oh well, maybe next year I will go to more games.

For the last couple of games I did get to use the strobes set up in the stadium which always helps with lighting and also let me get to be a little creative because of how much light they produce. Here are a few photos from the weekend.

Nike N7 Game

Last week I posted a few images of the Nike N7 uniforms the OSU basketball team would be wearing for their game against Texas Southern and now here are photos from that game. Sadly we lost to Texas Southern 66-60. On the bright side it was nice to photograph something other than the boring white uniforms we wear normally.

Big Win!

All week I have been saying that OSU would comeback from their loss to Washington State and beat USC. Honestly I said this with some doubt. Even though I didn't truly believe that we would win, I feel that you need to at least look like you believe in a team to help them out.

There always needs to be someone there to keep some sort of hope alive and most of the people I talk to on a regular basis were confident we would get crushed by USC. I'm so glad they were all wrong! Here are a few of the photos from the extremely cold game on Saturday night.

Nike N7

This morning the OSU men's basketball team unveiled the uniforms that they will be wearing this weekend when they host Texas Southern. I think they are pretty good looking unis and it should be fun to photograph a different color in Gill (sometimes white and orange can get a little old.)

Oregon State vs Washington State

The Beavers suffered another disappointing loss today. Honestly I don't think that the loss itself was disappointing to me, what was disappointing to me was the lack of action on the field leaving me with very little to photograph. But I did get a few good photos here and there so I can't complain to much.

Civil War Volleyball

Last night I was the 2nd of two Civil War volleyball games this year. Fortunatley I got a chance to use the strobes in Gill Coliseum which I think I finally started to figure out last night. Here are just a few photos form the game.

Global Formula Racing

Over the weekend I had a chance to go watch and photograph a drive day for Global Formula Racing. GFR is the OSU racing team made up of college student who design and build a race car annually and compete against other colleges. The "global" part comes from the OSU team's partnership with a university in Germany that build and race generally the same cars.

Long ago, when I still had not found photography, I wanted to be a part of the OSU racing team but somewhere along the way my dreams changed and I started in on my photography forgetting about the team completely. Strangely though everything has come full circle and I'm now taking photos for GFR on the side and Saturday was the first time that I saw the car in action, along with a go cart and a completely electric racer.

Basketball Is Back

Finally winter sports are starting to make their way back into my little world. The Beavers played the Western Oregon Wolves tonight and looked pretty good. I was a little worried that I would be rusty at shooting basketball but after just a few minutes it all came together and the photos started to look pretty good. Here are a few from tonight's win.

Finally A Day Game

For some reason I have been busy every time the OSU soccer teams have a game in during the day. Yesterday afternoon I finally got to shoot soccer with decent lighting and boy did it make a difference. I used a 300mm f2.8 lens with a 1.3x multiplier and my Canon 1D Mark III. This setup was perfect for the game. I even got to shoot in just about all the different types of weather we have here. Overcast, rain, sun, and even rain and sun at the same time.

What Some People Will Do

Tonight while I was on my way back to my apartment I heard quite a commotion coming from Reser Stadium. So I got on my bike and road by for a quick look. I found out that all the excitement was just the students camping out for tickets to Saturday's football game against Washington State. Apparently some of the students have been camping out since Friday afternoon, that's just crazy in my opinion.

Portland Fall Classic

Yesterday I left my apartment at 5:30am to get to a friend/coworker's house by 6am (That's just a little too early when its Halloween weekend and you have stayed up late and woken early for three days in a row.)  Abby, Emily and I were traveling to Portland to watch the Portland Fall Classic Regatta.

I only get a few chances a year to shoot rowing and after spending a few hours along the river taking photos in such great conditions, it makes me wish I could shoot rowing a lot more. It was an incredibly beautiful morning which made it pretty easy to get then shots I needed. I love photographing events like this!

New Blog!

I have created a new blog! Why create a new one when I already have one? Well, I update my other blog when ever I photograph something a little different or something pretty big. The problem with only blogging about the big stuff is that I end up only making 2-3 posts a month. That's were this new blog comes in. The posts will be shorter and the much more frequent (I'm hoping I post after every shoot that I do.)

I also want to make this blog a little more personal and fun unlike my wordpress blog. This will be more of my personal, everyday life blog and my Wordpress blog will cover big events that I photograph in detail.

Although my plan could just fall to pieces in a couple of weeks. Any bets on when I stop updating this blog? One week? Two weeks? 



-Ethan