Basketball at 1/40 of a Second

I'm always trying to find new angles and creative ways to take photos when I shoot at OSU because the office I intern in uses photos from a lot of people who shoot for free so that they can sit on the floor or field. So I try to make my images stand out. Last night I had a floor remote set up at my feet and I knew it was pretty much guaranteed to capture at least one usable photo which allowed me to focus on other shots. I spent close to 70% of my night trying to find something different using loger exposures. The floor remote did its job and the photo for the story last night came from it, but I didn't seem to get anything else until I took a second look at this photo and desaturated it which really made the image pop. So I guess I'm just glad all that time I spent wasn't a complete waste.

Portland Timbers Internship

One year ago I watched the Portland Timbers inaugural MLS game with my roommates in Corvallis and was blown away by what I saw so much that I told myself then that I would make sure I was an intern for the next season. A year later I just finished up shooting the 2012 home opener for the Timbers and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season now more the ever.

Lacrosse Unveils New Helmets

I probably should have posted this a while ago but oh well. These are a few of the photos I took for the OSU lacrosse team for their unveiling of their new helmet. We were kind of trying for a NIKE Pro Combat look to the photos. I don't think that we completely pulled off the look but the team liked the photos so I was fine with it. Here is a link to the story that ran in the Oregonian.

Just Another Portrait

For the first time in my life I'm taking a real photography class and for one of the assignments I though I would go all out to produce a cool image. Before the shoot I hadn't done any test images to see if my idea would even work. I just thought about what would be the best time of day, what would be the best location would be around Corvallis in the middle of winter, and how I would light everything when the time came. Then we taped a few LED lights to the end of a golf club and at the end of a 2.5 second exposure this was the result. Considering that I had no idea if this would really work I'm ecstatic that it turned out as good as it did. This isn't really a good strategy if your working with a client but since this was just for a class I didn't really put a lot of time into the photo.