Yearly Archives: 2009

D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Focus)

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Shot the Jay Z concert last night at Assembly Hall for the DI. I only got to stay for two songs (and 90% of that time was looking through my viewfinder while my arm got sore holding my 1D+70-200 over my head) while N.E.R.D. and Jay Z performed. It was still pretty cool nonetheless. I was having a ton of autofocus issues looking back at my photos, but I have a feeling they were my fault and not the 1D3 — so I came out unsatisfied. Blerg. Brad got some really nice shots, ‘check em out. And yeah, how do High School newspapers get credentials for this stuff? I feel old.

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Thinking outside the podium

Daily Illini,

Podium shots (photos of people in front of a podium or sitting down at a desk) are essentially the bane of every newspaper photographer’s existence. They are especially an epidemic at the DI newsroom.

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This is a picture from a lecture on electronic waste at the iHotel in Champaign. I took a whole bunch of boring podium shots and waited for something interesting to happen, and Willie Cade (the lecturer) helped me out a bit. Here I came out with a decent silhouette. His lecture was actually fairly interesting and he spent a lot of the time on the floor interacting with the audience. Re-cy-cling?

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University,

I had to crash a barndance for my job with the alumni association. Most of the pictures I took were posed and flashed because it was dark as hell and I had to ask permission of people to take photos as per the barn owner and fraternity/sorority’s request, but here’s a nice little moment of drunken partying next to a large pallet fire and me creeping from afar.

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