12 posts tagged “photography”
A selection of photos taken in or near Calgary during iStockphoto's iStockalypseHQ event:
Eugene saxophonist Suzanne Sciarretta:
A few more shots from my shoot with Eugene saxophonist Suzanne Sciaretta:
Some new elections-related stock photos:
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Another shot of our friend the knight...
...plus some looks at his gear...
Some sample images from my shoot with Rachel:
I know sunflowers are just done to death. At last count, there are around 5,000 sunflower photos at iStock.
It's just that this was the first time I'd ever been in France during the summer when the sunflower fields are still in bloom. Right where our family lives, there are no vineyards but they are surrounded by fields and fields of sunflower, presumably for oil production. Usually we go to France in September, and by then the sunflowers are all black and drooped over, so this was a new sight for me, a visual treat that I couldn't resist shooting, even if it certainly won't be particularly lucrative.
And, who can resist shooting those tiny little chapels you find perched
at the tops of hills? This one looks out over the village of
Châteauneuf-sur-Isère in the Rhône Valley:
...except in the semi-pro leagues, it is.
A month ago I didn't even know such a thing existed. But my father, who lives in a town a few hours away, recently became half-owner of such a team.
So when my dad's team came here Saturday to play the team from my city - which I never even knew existed - I took the opportunity to be on the sidelines and try my hand at shooting a little sports action, something I had never, um, tackled before.
The game started at about sunset on a high school field, so there were
lights, but nothing like what you'd have at a real stadium. Early in
the game, there was enough additional light from the sky to shoot my
with Canon 200mm f2.8L at ISO 400...then 800...then 1600...then finally
I had to give up the big lens entirely and just shoot with my 50mm
f1.4, at 1600. The 50mm really worked out better than I would have
thought, because I was able to be very close to the action a lot of the
time, too close for the 200mm anyway.
The game was a lot of fun to shoot, and it was
also an interesting new perspective on football, being right along the
bench and hearing all the players commentary and back-and-forth trash
talking, not to mention the startlingly physical sounds as offense and
defense collide. You can't hear any of that from the stands when you
attend a normal college or pro game, and even what you hear piped in on
televised games doesn't really have the impact of hearing it just a few
yards away.
