February 2012
8 posts
Destler's Fireside Chat
A few weeks ago I went to the Fireside Lounge to photograph the first public broadcast of a quarterly interview of Rochester Institutes of Technology President Bill Destler by the university’s student radio station WITR. It was a situation that I had not photographed before and was one of a few recent shoots that has helped me realized how much more I need to work in the way I see things.
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Swimming
As the quarter wraps down I am going through my archives looking at the shoots that got left to the wayside in the bustle of schoolwork.
I got to shot two of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Swimming and diving team’s home meets. Swimming is a sport I have a personal history with so it was something that I really enjoyed doing. Also swimming is one of those sports which...
Puppies! Who doesn't love them?
That must have been thought of the members of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s College Activities Board when they made plans to have Scottsville Animal Shelter bring about half a dozen puppies and keep them in a tent on RIT’s main walkway for students to come in a play with for a minute or two. The tent drew a constant line of about fifty people waiting to hold and pet the young...
Outstretched Hands and Hockey
There are always a group of kids who have their hands extended into the mouth of the tunnel as the Rochester Institute of Technology Men’s Hockey Team enters and leaves the ice at Ritter Arena. Usually it is about five of them, lately it has been about ten crowding precariously against the railing trying for a high five while whining to the players “Can I have your stick?” or...
RIT takes first in the AHA standings after weekend...
And they have since fallen to second after losing twice last weekend to Air Force and tonight they tied for first with a win against Canisius.
I shot my first hockey games since a disastrous take from a 15-0 blowout of Chatham by Women’s team in early December I was quite happy with my take from the weekend.
The first game fits the description of “nasty, brutish, and [for Mercyhurst...
Goal Tender Woes
One of my shots from last weekend’s hockey took second in the RIT NPPA Chapter’s Photo of the Week Contest.
This poor goalie had a rough night letting five pucks past him before being pulled after the second period of a 5-1 loss to RIT Friday and then saw no ice time during the following night’s 2-2 tie.
Mercyhurst goalie Max Strang watches as Rochester Institute of...
Laura Chamberlain gazes upward as she is announced as the starting goalie piror to RIT’s game against Chatham University. RIT won by a margin of 15-0 Friday, December 2, 2011 in Rochester.
A smattering of photos
I have not uploaded a lot of the work I have done in the past few months so here are a few selects
January 2012
2 posts
High School Track
I went to the His and Hers Invitiational Track Invitational at Ithaca College’s new fieldhouse, Glazer Arena.
It was some hard shooting because even though the long windows make for a very well lit track compared to other facilities it also creates an ugly battle of color balance with the sodium vapor lights overheads.
I don’t think I spent enough time looking when I was shooting....
High School Hockey: Story Telling
One of the events I have covered over my winter break has been a High School Hockey game. I came into the game with two major goals:
To take advantage of the relative neutrality I came into the game with. When shooting something like an RIT athletic contest or a contest involving a team representing my former High School it is hard for me to approach shooting with an unbiased attitude. Especially...
December 2011
3 posts
Lights, Camera, Portrait
Lately I have been really wishing I had a better handle on using artificial lights like speedlights and other strobes. This interest has more or less been sparked by reading Joe McNally’s The Hot Shoe Diaries at the suggestion of my TA.
So when I was asked to create a few portraits for one of my shooting classes this quarter I checked out a few speedlights and justin clamps and got to work...
Swim Meet
Lansing vs. Odessa-Montour, High School Swim Meet
December 20, 2011 - Lansing, NY
Break and Basketball
I am home for Christmas with lots of goodies from the equipment cage which I am taking advantage of with lots of shooting and lots-of-shooting’s less desirable companion, lots of editing.
Here are my shots from a high school basketball game last night:
Lansing High School’s Nate McInotsh is introduced as starter prior to the game against Dryden, Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Lansing...
November 2011
8 posts
Lansing Soccer
Over Thanksgiving break I photographed the boy’s soccer team from my town’s high school at a send-off for their trip to and the game of the New York Sate Class C tournament. The team was ranked number one in the state for the majority of the season and going into the semi-finals they held a record of 20-0. Unfortunately the team lost in the semi-finals to Port Jefferson 0-1. Here are a...
Occupy Rochester
Here are some of the frames that I made a few weeks ago when I visited the Rochester branch of the Occupy movement. They had signed an agreement with the Mayor earlier that night allowing them to stay in the park without fear of arrest for violating the 11pm park closing. When I got to the Washington Square Park during the period between the announcement and the news coverage of the first night in...
Thanksgiving
It’s the perfect time to practice handheld flash!
Tobey distributes presents at the annual after Thanksgiving Christmas celebration.
Grandma opens her presents as the family looks on.
Also after five games of bowling in the past three days I realize I really can’t play for anything. Though duck pin bowling is more fun.
RIT vs Oneonta Wrestling
Wrestling is one of those sports that I essentially know nothing about. When you don’t have an understanding of a sport yourself it is hard to create an image that “increases understanding of and appreciation for sport” as CPOY defines the goal of sports photography. So here I guess is my first try at shooting wrestling. I really want to talk to someone who can explain to me the...
Men's Soccer Liberty League Championships
Last Saturday I shot the Men’s Soccer Liberty League Soccer Championships. RIT was hosting Vassar College at home on short notice after the number one seed St Lawrence fell in the semi-finals. I was really excited to have the opportunity to have to cover it, because in a championship every emotion is more dramatic: the celebration of a goal, the intensity of each push and of course, the...
Like a G6
Las Friday I got to photograph the Far East Movement and Mike Posner in concert when they came to RIT’s Gordon Field House. I have been thinking more about the photographs I have been making lately, really pushing myself to try to make insightful and interesting images through a varied use of techniques so I made sure to move around as much as I could after the ten minutes/three songs they...
Occupying the Park
Today I visited Washington Square Park in downtown Rochester for the first time. I was lured by a friend’s Facebook post that led me to find that the Mayor had final delivered an agreement allowing the protesters to remain in the park past the 11pm closing time. Prior to the agreement the City of Rochester was the only city in the state and one of the few in the country were protesters were...
RIT Goal Keeper Ben Frazier looks helplessly on as the ball that had just slipped past his fingertips sails into his goal on a volley from Vassar’s Evan Seltzer (right) during the Liberty League Men’s Soccer Championships held Saturday, November 5, 2011 at RIT. Vassar won the title 3-2 to advance to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
October 2011
6 posts
Brick City Hockey
Last weekend I shot RIT’s Homecoming Hockey game for the school’s magazine. I was really happy with what I came back with. I feel like I have made huge strides in my sports work in the past two months. Mostly with getting around the venue, having more variety in subject and composition in my shots, taking chances in shooting with different lenses, having the patience to set up a shot...
Here are some recent shots I have liked
Team
Two weeks ago I had project for Elements of Photojournalism where we restricted to the use of a fixed lens with a 35mm focal length. For my project I photographed a few things but where I made the photographs I liked best was when I brought my camera along with me on the travel for my cross country meet. These are photographs that are hard to separate myself from emotionally because they are of a...
McQuaid Invitational
Here are some more of the images I liked from my shoot last Saturday at the McQuaid Invitational, one of the largest high school cross country meets in the country.
A runner from Pavilion High School (Pavilion, NY) comes down the hill marking the half mile to go point at the McQuaid Cross Country Invitational in Rochester’s Genesee Valley Park on Saturday, October 1, 2011.
Runners from...
Picture of the Week
One of my images from the McQuaid Cross Country Invitational was recognized by RIT’s chapter of NPPA in their picture of the week contest. I am really happy about because it shows some of the stuff I think I have improved on recently: recognizing moments, and realizing the power of expression. I’ll post more images from the meet soon:
Members of the Honeoye Central School Cross...
A Full Saturday
This morning I woke up too early after far too little sleep and proceded to bike about 4 miles in the drizzling rain to Genesee Valley Park I spent 4 hours covering one of the largest high school cross country invitationals on the east coast. (I heard that there were about 7000 runners there). The McQuaid Invite is one of my favorite meets, when I was in high school I loved the fast course and...
September 2011
6 posts
Volleyball
This week for SportsZone I shot volleyball, a sport that I am not very familiar with and not at all familiar with shooting. As a result it was really pretty difficult trying to find out the good angles and trying to keep up getting good focus with the pace of the game. Though overall
Cat Sullivan signals to her teammates as the ball is served into play by RIT. RIT won the game in straight sets...
Women's Soccer
Last Wednesday I shot a Women’s soccer game. My goal cam remote worked this time but in trying to get the entire goal I ended up making the players too small and as a consequence my image of RIT’s one goal was far too pixelated to be useable.
However I was really satisfied with the rest of my images I got some really good expressions and good action.
Jamie Martinez of RIT comes to...
A Little Bit of Volleyball
RIT hosts a pretty big two day volleyball tournament every year near the start of the fall quarter. It isa nice little opportunity to get practice on a sport that in my opinion is very difficult to shoot, non-withstanding the terrible flickering, uneven, and ugly colored lighting in our gym.
Kelly Mulrey of the University of Rochester Women’s volleyball team spikes against the team from...
Night Adventures
Today while riding home after 4 hours in a computer lab producing a stop-motion animation cut out for my 4D design class (awesome but tedious work) I ran into a few people on bikes who invited me to come to a race. I laughed, guessing what kind of race they were doing at 11pm on a Thursday, and kept biking for fifty meters before I turned around.
I turned around because I realize I do not take...
Rochester Labor Day Parade
Right now my main photography class is Elements of Photojournalism. The elements courses are a quarter of the three disciplines that RIT offers in the BFA program: PJ, Advertising, and Fine Art. They are set up that way so everyone gets basic exposure to a diverse selection of photography and can make a final determination of what program that want to pursue a degree in.
My professor is not a...
Back at School
It is really good to be back. So many more opportunities, access to equipment, and such a great atmosphere created by being among people who are dedicated to their craft, especially the professors who devote their time to helping others learn the profession.
Starting this year I am working shooting stills for the RIT Sports Zone, a television program produced on-campus. I am really excited...
Sorry for the number of posts recently made here...
I just consolidated this blog with another account so I would spend less time on tumblr. Unfortunately it has also led to me not checking where I am posting to and mixing up the content of the two blogs.
August 2011
4 posts
Vacation Bible School
Last month I volunteered at a Vacation Bible School in my home town. My main job was to help lead the campers in songs at the big group gatherings at the beginning and end of the night, but pretty much all the other time I was wandering around with a camera in hand and the freedom of full access. Also got practice in quick turnover because the photos I would take I would then immediately prep for...
Strays
I just wanted to post a few of my photos that I have taken in the past month or so that I like but weren’t really part of a shoot.
Meghan, Ithaca Falls
Tory and Chelsea, Cayuga Lake
Mom, Finished painting my brother’s room
Lakewood
One of my favorite parts of summer is visiting my family’s cabin on a small lake in North Eastern Pennsylvania. It is more or less cut off from the rest of the world, no internet, no television, and up until recently there was only spotty cell service. This solitude makes it one of my favorite places to be, just spending time relaxing, reading in a hammock; kayaking around the lake; or...
July 2011
1 post
Fireworks in the Park
Saturday I photographed the Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the Lansing Community Council. It was the first time that the town had a big event and fireworks for independence day weekend. It really touched on the theme of small town community that I am exploring in my self assigned summer long project.
June 2011
7 posts
Lansing High School Commencement
Today I was able to attend my former high school’s graduation ceremony to see a few of my good friends celebrate the end of their four years there. My town is a quite small and close-knit community so being there was as always, fun and memorable.
This year the ceremony was held in the middle school auditorium (read: uneven, mixed lighting from hell) due to some spots of rain during the day....
Soccer
Yesterday I traveled with my family to watch my brother play soccer in Elmira. I brought my camera along with me because I am not sure I even remember another way watch a sports game besides through a lens. My brother was playing with his club team, BC Untied Fusion, they were playing the Soaring Capitals and there was nice afternoon light. They won 3-0 to finish their season 7-0-1 to secure their...
Some Sports
This weekend I had to go with my family to my brothers two soccer games an hour away, so I turned what potentially could have been a waste of a day into something good and ended up shooting his game. I have shot some sports since I have been home, and by some sports I mean the two times I went to support my former teammates who still run for my high school. However even though I brought an...
Ithaca Festival
I spent some time last week photographing at the Ithaca Festival, a four day event where performers and vendors set up on the Commons in downtown Ithaca, NY and fill the air with music and smells of every kind and stalls with all varieties of handmade crafts. It wasn’t as much time as I would have liked spending photographing, when I was walking around with my camera I was a hesitant to take...
Mike Lawrence
I took this portrait for an assignment where we had to mix ambient and flash. This is the Facilities Management Service worker who cares for the varsity locker rooms underneath Clark Gym.
Strobist:
SB900 in magic slipper through a strip bank high right
SB900 on camera fill-flash
Portraits
A large chunk of our assignments revolved around portraiture this year. That was more than fine by mine because I am intrigued by the genre and I hear it is what the majority of my work will be in the future.
The main portraiture assignment was a portrait of several individuals within a group. I went with athletes on the university’s track team. Here are s few:
Carly, Mid-Distance
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Student Life and Robert Frank
I have decided to post some of my work that never made it up from my final quarter as a freshman. This was one of the assignments I was most proud of; We were working with the idea of creating a series of images that dealt with life as a student. In addition to dealing with student life we also had to create the series in the style of an established historical or contemporary photographer.
I...
May 2011
2 posts
Summer
I am finally home for the summer, er… well I have been home for about 4 days now, but I have been spending that relaxing, and decompressing after a hectic and trying spring quarter. Anyways I am really happy to be here and not have to worry about school and just have time to shoot and run and spend time with friends. With all this free time I hope to be posting a little bit more and also...
Elizabeth and the Catapult
Last night I had the opportunity to photograph O.A.R. and their opener, the wonderful Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth and the Catapult, who was touring with J. Blynn and Sarab Singh of Harper Blynn, at the Gordon Fieldhouse. I was shooting for the school magazine Reporter who was covering O.A.R.’s performance, part of RIT’s SpringFest.
It was the first concert I shot in a while and the...
April 2011
4 posts
Tornado Watch
Instead of reading Maupassant’s “Boule de suif” for my French class, I like to procrastinate by going outside in the pouring rain and shooting features.
An RIT Public Safety Officer asks students to go inside because of the tornado watch in effect. The students had been mudwrestling and enjoying the severe weather in the Kate Gleason Quad during a period of heavy rain and...
Home, for a bit
This week was a long one, but now I am home with my dog at my feet and relaxing a little bit. I don’t feel like I have been keeping up with my work this quarter like I should be so now I am going to try to use this weekend to get back on top of everything.
Today after class I drove down from RIT to SUNY Cortland where the track team is competing yesterday and today. It was a long and...
Women's Lax Against Utica
RIT Captain Megan Henriksen moves downfield despite the defense of Utica’s Katlyn Banker during RIT’s home win, Saturday, April 9.
This weekend was a good one for me. I competed at the University of Rochester Invitational Saturday morning, ran well, and then after a jog back to RIT campus and going out lunch with the parents I hit the 4pm jackpot at the cage and got to take out...