I shot Volleyball, Football, and Hockey a few weekends ago. I should’ve tried to get into the basketball game, too. :-P
The hardest part about shooting so much is sorting through everything, choosing the 20 best, processing/editing, and captioning all of them. So time consuming.
The U of I Volleyball team is awesome, so the DI sports staff chose to feature players Ashley Edinger and Johannah Bangert as Illini of the Week this week. I got to redeem myself from the speedlite fail debacle of last week, and I stepped it up with two AB800s with umbrellas, PW plus IIs, a vagabond II, and my 580exII. Working under a time constraint sucks, but studio shots are fun stuff. Thanks to people who let me borrow their gear and my friend Trevor for helping me carry and setup all this gear.
Images Copyright Dean Santarinala/The Daily Illini Oct. 13, 2009
Images Copyright Dean Santarinala/The Daily Illini Oct. 9, 2009
It’s been a while since I shot volleyball last. I moved around Huff Hall quite a bit, but I think I’d say that my favorite spot would be either along the net 1 level up, or on the baseline along the net. They sort of fixed the lighting situation at Huff, but white balancing it is still a bitch. Next time I’ll have to gray card it.
This was my second time taking portraits of Kylie McCulley for Illini of the Week, and I came out with much better photos than last time (my first IOTW, which was full of basketball hoops) but unfortunately I was having some technical difficulties with my off camera speedlite not being triggered. So instead of spending 5 minutes setting up and 10-20 composing and taking shots, I spent 15-20 minutes frustrated with speedlites and 5 minutes actually shooting. I had more ideas but didn’t have time to implement them. Oh well. Live and learn.
