Velleca beats frosh goaltender Milner over the shoulder

Alrighty, wow sorry about this long hiatus....the LSATs had officially taken over my life. I am back and in full force. From here on out (at least until finals mid December ;) ) I will be posting much much more frequently!!

As I'm sure some of you have noticed, Merrimack Hockey is making quite the name for itself this year. They are 5-0 at home with decisive big lead wins over ranked opponents such as Vermont and Boston College.

We lost this game 4-3 at Boston College on 10/30 but came back home to beat them 5-3 at Lawler Arena.

This was the first of three straight Merrimack goals in the first period. Velleca beat freshman goaltender Milner over the shoulder to cut the lead to 2-1.

What I like about this picture:

Some people may not like the wide crop, but I think it makes for an interesting composition. Standard 4:6 aspect ratio gets old. Honestly I think I may try to see what it looks like even narrower. Would make for a cool long framed picture to hang above my desk.

I also like that the BC forward near the net is covering up the "." in bceagles.com....everyone who has shot at Conte knows that thing is like the biggest pain the behind for goal shots as it closely resembles a hockey puck :)

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17-40mm and the 430exII

Well, the Canon 430exII is on its way, should be here before the weekend. It will give me plenty of time to play around with it and get comfortable come prom, Merrimack graduation, and highschool graduation.

I'm excited to get into more portrait and event work. I'm thinking about photographing personal events and possibly get into Weddings (as I build experience) as a side job to support the ever increasing expenses of a college life haha.

I don't know if maybe Ian you would be interested in teaming up, I know you have a real job now lol. But I figure hey why sit around on evenings and weekends when we could make a few bucks doing what we love best.

More pictures to be up very soon including some from the italy trip.

Early in the season, Mency takes an ally-hoop pass from Duncan (Bob Cousy award nominee) and slams it home. I thought it might be cool to splice the shots together, the action along with the expression on Duncan's face makes for a fantastic shot!

Merrimack's DII Basketball program has really flourished under these two who have one more year left. We have made two straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament and finished the year with a 21-9 record. They're a really great duo to photograph, they really feed off each-other's intensities.

11pm Dawn

I apologize for the delay, but here's the next picture I'm putting up. As you can see by the title this was taken at 11pm at night with a shutter speed of around 75 seconds. For those of you familiar with Arlington, this is the swing set at Skyline park. The bright light in the background is coming from Boston which if I was further up the hill on the left you could easily see.

I chose to keep the grain in the photo, I feel that it kind of adds to the surrealness. I love the colors that come out of long nighttime exposures. This was taken on my Rebel XTi.

Depth of Field + Emotion = A Real Skinner

BC coach Al Skinner shows his disagreement with a call

I struggled really hard to decide on what picture should have the privilege of going up here first. I found this one fitting for a few reasons.

The man who really got me into photography is Ian Thomas and I owe a lot of what I have learned to him. It was winter break a little over a year ago and Ian called me up and asked if I wanted to shoot the BC-Kansas basketball game with him.

I could not say no to the situation and I'd like to apologize to Liz as I think I even broke off a lunch date with her... :0

Kansas won the national championship that year and needless to say BC was struggling against them. So I started to focus my lens on things elsewhere besides the players. Perhaps get some candid shots of the mascots and kids or the coaches.

On what I believe was a blocking foul on BC, Al Skinner really let the reff have it. I was already holding the 70-200mm in my hands as opposed to the 24-70mm and I fired off this shot.

It has quickly become one of my personal favorites. I absolutely love the depth of field, notice the reff slightly out of focus...makes Skinner pop out at you just that much more. His emotion is so clear it can really depict how that game went as a whole.

Please leave as many comments as you want! I welcome both criticism and praise haha, as much as I want to showcase my work I'm always looking to improve.

Intro

Ok so I decided to branch out from politics to another area that I love...photography. I figured that combining the two blogs would create some unwanted tension. I figured that a lot of you who might be interested in my photography might not be interested in my political positions....but just in case you are my political blog is salvuccim.blogspot.com. (Shameless plug I know)

However this will be a place dedicated to my photography. I haven't been uploading to flickr recently (I plan on changing that) but I thought this would be a great place for me to post some of my better photos and share them with you and maybe even explain a little bit about editing and capturing along the way!

I hope you enjoy, and please comment away!!