Basketball Mania!

Sports shots are among the toughest to take. The photographer needs to know something about the sport, where the action might be, how the "flow" will move to take in players and where good positions are for the best camera angles.







That's also just the beginning, the understanding of the subject and its movement. The lighting and the speed with which participants will move also has to be considered, as does the lens focal length to use (telephoto or wide angle?) and how fast to set the "film speed". Of course, digital cameras don't use "film", but many have settings for the CCD's sensitivity to light, usually from 100 up to 1600, with 1600 being the fastest (and most "grainy") response to light.

For these photos, I used a shutter priority setting (choosing my shutter speed of 1/100 second) to keep my shutter speed constant and a ISO (film speed) setting of 1600 (the lights aren't great in the Bangor Auditorium) and most of the time my f-stop was fairly open (between f-5.6 and f-11) so the depth of field was narrow at times.



OK, so which of these photos do you like best and why? Maybe some "tweets" on composition or things that might improve them. Or even pick out a single element or principle of design that is working well. Thanks a million, I hope you are all having a great vacation. GO TROJANS!

SHADOW

We got a chance to play around with shadows a bit yesterday, and many of you reached yet another level of "looking" at not only what is light, but what is not light. We often hear that a "picture is worth a thousand words", but a photo is also a lot like a piece of music, with rhythm, pattern, balance & "color". Understanding the importance of the shadows of a photo is just as important as "seeing the light"!

Ellie M. (block C) arranged the pieces for the picture above. She had the concept (envision - 8 habits) and did all the work - cut out the letters, taped them up to the table, set the lights, etc., but I took this particular photo (she has some similar).

Who does the photo belong to? (Don't need to explain why, just what you think - remember these are "tweet-sized")
...or make any comments on the use of shadow, what you like about the photo (or process), or just the concept/idea.

REFLECTIONS...

Here is a photo for us to talk about!

"C" BLOCK

So what a difference a period makes! During "C" block we couldn't get everyone onto a Google blogspot site, the "googlers" wanted to make sure we weren't robots, and it made it very difficult to edit/customize blogs... even with all that more than half the class got on and started their blogs! Way to go guys!

"B" BLOCK!

Hi guys! I'm excited that we have an online connection through this site, and I hope it will become a place for you to "hang out", discuss images that are posted, and generally interact with one another as you learn and produce more work in digital photography.

It's also a possibilty that we may work and share with students at Deer Isle - Stonington High School (another "island" school) on a site they create! The next post will be "C" block!