Sunday, October 28, 2007

Get ready for some football!!!

Ok like always I’ve been meaning to do a post but I’ve put it off and put it off well now is the time for a football post and instead of doing a lot of little ones I will do one big one with all the football games I have shot so far.


My first game was the Utes first home game against Air Force, there was some serious questions surrounding the Utes after we lost Johnson and Asiata in the Oregon State game but it I was still excited about my first game. At first I was a little too excited I was just shooting everything and not thinking it through. As the game went on I got settled in and started to shoot better. I got a few good shots.
The Utes were inches away from tying the game but could not get through the Air Force line to score it was a disappointing end.
I was offered the chance to shoot the game against UCLA but thought they will get their asses kicked and I need to watch a game from The MUSS so I declined the offer, HOW STUPID!?!?!


So the next game I shoot was against UNLV in fabulous Las Vegas. This game I started to find my zone and really did better than against Air Force wish the same could be said for the Utes but whatever.
The MUSS came down to Vegas and so we had Swoop the cheerleaders and the band it was almost like a home game. As I said I had a big improvement during this game and I got a sweet shot of a sack from Martail Burnett.
After the game in fabulous Las Vegas I shot the Utes vs. Utah State in snow socked Salt Lake City. Despite the snow and the rain a number of hardcore Ute fans took off their shirts and painted their stomachs.

It was hard to shoot with bags on my cameras but I managed to get some really good shots If I do say so myself.
I was happy with the stuff I got when I looked over them at the office, but on Sunday morning I felt even better about my stuff when I looked in the Trib and saw Trent’s picture it looked really familiar so I pulled up my shoots an saw this one.
It was the same moment Trent had captured the only difference is that Trent was 10 or 15 yards up the line so it had less of the feet on the bottom right which is why I’m still learning but it makes me feel like I’m doing something right when a I can get a shot that is similar to a picture from a great photographer like Trent.

Ok this post is getting kind of long but this is the last game I have to write about so let’s get this over with. This time the Utes took on San Diego State and the weather was much improved. The Utes looked good again in their win over San Diego State and again I got some good shots as I continue to improve. My one of my favorite shots was when the Utes ran a fake field goal and Louie Sakoda threw a pass to Bradon Godfrey. I could see why Louie is a kicker to be fair he is a AWESOME kicker.
Like in the Utah State game I had a picture that was the same moment as one that was in the Trib on Sunday this time it was one of Rick's pictures. Rick and I that were sitting on the side of the end zone and we were hopping the play would come our way and it did.I got that shot with a 75 mm the smallest lens I had out and I loved it. Rick had a wide angel that looked great to but it was the same moment so at least I know my timing is as good as Trent’s and Rick now I just need to improve in my other areas.

2 comments:

the.kim.peterson said...

I love the photo with the helmet grabbage and the very last one. The last one is just great. (The others are all good, but I like that one a lot). Also, I hate shooting with bags too. The rain game I had ended up soaking the front of the glass so the autofocus wouldn't work and I could barely see through the lense well enough for manual focus. Crazy. Weather is crazy.

Jarad 31 said...

Finally you get your football post up! The photos are great! maybe someday i'll be able to shoot football as good as you!