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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

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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?

Orange & Blue Scrimm

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Last weekend I shot a basketball scrimmage, and it was relatively uneventful. The worst part was captioning since the Illini wear practice jerseys without numbers on the front, and the numbers on the back are almost indecipherable. The worst part was getting to know the freshmen, but I hear that they’re supposed to be a good recruiting class so it’s good to get to know their names and faces now so that I can know who to cheer for in a few years once I’m gone and they make the NCAA championship game again.

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