Monday, March 2, 2009

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!!