October 06, 2007 - A little orange man comes in for a landing at Aloha Stadium. Exposure details: Canon EOS 1-D Mark II, EF 600mm f4, Manual, 1/640 sec at f/4, ISO 3200, Fluorescent balance
Just keeping myself entertained during those TV timeouts at a UH football game…
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October 25th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
so on point i could die. this is stellar.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I’m an amateur photographer and am learing how to shoot good photos. Your blog really gives me an idea how to compose and make eye-catching photos. Most of the time I shoot with aperture priority so that I don’t have to worry about the shutter speed. When I try to use manual, I’m screwed. I’m not good at adjusting both aperture and shutter at the same time. Like this picture in your blog, How do know what value to set? or you just know by experience? I always get under-expose or over-expose. Thanks for the blog. I’m looking forward to reading more.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:55 am
I shoot AV (aperture priority) a lot, too. But there are times when the light never changes, or I need to get certain lighting, that I’ll use manual.
Photo takes a lot of practice. I’m fortunate in that I shoot pictures 8 hours a day everyday, so I don’t even think about what I’m doing most of the time. More often than not I’ll be in a lighting situation that I’ve been in a million times before and know what to do instinctively, but that only comes through constant practice.
I learned photo using manual cameras (Nikon F3, etc), and that taught me a lot about how light works and how to get the effects I want lighting-wise. Nowadays, modern camera auto metering systems are accurate enough that I can let them do the dirty work. But even in auto I have to know when I need to dial in exposure compensation for weird lighting situations.
Places like Aloha Stadium at night are a set lighting situation. For UH football, when all the lights are on, it will be 1/640 at f2.8 at ISO 1600, fluorescent white balance. It never changes. As soon as I walk in, I set my cameras to that. Same with Stan Sheriff, or Mililani High stadium — they all have constant lighting.
It just takes time to get to know your camera, basic lighting situations, and what effect (depth-of-field, etc.) you want to achieve.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:47 am
i like this pic. period.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:00 am
I remember that thing flying every where during the Boise State game…