Daily Stuffs
Not too sure how many people know, but I shoot a lot of stuff for the UW newspaper, the Daily. Recently I’ve been shooting a lot of sports features which I’m pretty excited about. The first was a story about the UW men’s soccer team’s two goalies, Rylan Hawkins (left) and Stephen Fung (article here). I wasn’t planning on doing it, but my friend Thom couldn’t take the assignment at the last minute. After some complications finding the practice, I got there and waited for a bit. Rylan had to leave a bit early for class so I got a shot of the two of them together, then I had to wait some more to do some portraits with Stephen.
This was the first thing I had in mind, I wanted to make use of the 5D’s wide-angle so I got in nice and close. Stephen didn’t really hook it up with a fierce face, but what can you do? These two photos were the ones that ran in the paper, this last one was a cool idea I though but it could’ve been executed a bit better.
I think it would’ve been a bit better had I upped the shutter to stop the motion a bit, but I wasn’t thinking much at the time. I was a little worried about the soccer ball that was passing through my legs
The other feature I had to shoot was one on the women’s cross country team. They’ve been doing really well lately and are ranked #1 in the country. A big contributor to the team has been Canadian freshman Kendra Schaaf (article here). She’s won her first two races by about 30 seconds each which apparently is pretty badass. I went to practice this past monday to try and make a few pictures. I had some nice ideas planned for husky stadium but the football team was practicing in there so we couldn’t do those.
I was just kind of messing around while they practiced hurdles, but check out HOW RIPPED SHE IS. Look at those abs. The photo editor was pretty hyped on this one.
The last thing was just a nice portrait of Kendra, but that was kind of hard to get, seeing as how we were on a track and cross country runners almost never run on tracks. I guess it turned out ok, I used a flash off the camera to light it and make her pop out a bit from the background.
I guess that’s about it, I’m shooting a bit more stuff for the Daily this weekend so I’ll keep you in the know if anything goes down.
