Final Day Revue

For the last day of the revue I took the 400 up into the balcony and it did not work well at all it did not get much at all I got one shot that was nowhere near as good as the day before.So I decided to go back to the sideline where I could get some stuff but it was a challenge this time I got some different but still cool stuff. In all the Revue was awesome and fun to do, but by the end it starts to get hard because it is a lot of games in not very much time. If I have the chance to shoot it again I will do it again.

5th day of The Revue

Ironic! That is all I have to say about this day at the Revue. After a day off (I have a post coming about that) from the Revue I was back with a new plan I took the 400 mm with me. I had wanted to shoot with the 400 but Lennie had brought the lens to me from the paper and I was glad he did that and I did not want to make him bring the 400 but with the day off I picked it up myself. My plan for the 400 was to go into the stands on the side and get above the play and shoot down on it. Well it was tough the play was too fast to fallow, and the side I was on was not getting much action. So I switch sides and then I could not see the play develop because the camera blocked it well I went back to the first side and just continued to try and get something. Then the Spurs were losing so bad that the Mav’s were not playing strong defense. With less than a minute Keith Langford got off a huge dunk. The kind I was waiting for.
Now why is this Ironic? This is now my favorite picture I have taken. There are a lot of pictures I have taken that I like but a few stick out above the rest. I don’t know how many times I’ve said this but again basketball is not my favorite sport. I don’t know why for sure but I’m just not much of a fan. The shot that always stood out before this one was also a basketball shot. I took this in high school. The camera was a film camera I had to advance myself and a lens I had to focus myself. I entered it in an art contest at Salt Lake Community College (after some encouragement from Tom Szalay the photo teacher) and got an award of merit. Later the yearbook was looking for some more photos and so it was the center picture of the 2004 West High yearbook. Even though I have tones more pictures that are probably better I liked this because of the praise it got and the camera I used it get it. It always reminds me that I don’t have to rely on auto focus or a motor drive I just have to see things coming.

Why would I be so good at shooting a sport I don’t really care for? It’s Ironic.

Day 4 @ The Revue

So it’s another day at the Rocky Mountain Revue, and today I had to try something new as I had told myself the day before. The other day I was looking at where the TV cameras were and that gave me my idea for the day. There was a TV camera on the floor at center court I thought what kind of shots would I get from there? After a little thought I was thinking that is not the best place to be and talking with Lennie about it we thought all you would get is them bringing the ball up the floor then they would have their back to me. Well I decided I would not sit at mid court but I would sit on the side down by the key. I would take a wide angel so I could get the play right in front of me and it worked out well. I got shot of this pass as the Bulls player tried to intercept it.

The only problem was I was not getting any thing for the story so I moved for the second half to make sure I got some useable shots. When I was shooting the second game, of the Spurs vs. 76ers, from the side but I did not get any plays to the side I was sitting on. So I had no shots and had to move so I could get something. I ended up getting a good dunk, and a cool pass.

Now it was time for the Jazz game vs. Kevin Durant, ok not many people were there for the Jazz ether it was a one man show. For the first time during the revue the area was packed. It had brought out all the Sonics fans and longhorn fans to see their star player. To be honest I did not think he would of as played as long as he did, but he played most the game but I was not that impressed with him but I’m not that into basketball so maybe he was better than I thought. Over hearing the writers and some fans they did not seem as impressed ether. Even with his not so impressive game it was cool to see him hear for the revue. He is by far the biggest national star I’ve got to shoot, so far.

Revue Day 3

After a nice day off (Kinda) I was back at the Revue I was excited about shooting this days games. During the games on Saturday I noticed a balcony on the west side of the court and thought that would be a good place to shoot. I saw Lennie up there during the Jazz game and he reaffirmed my thoughts of that being a good place to shoot so I wanted to get up there myself. For the first two games I did shoot from there and got some good stuff from both games.

That was fun so I thought I need to try something different each day I’m here because this is a great chance to experiment a little.

For the Jazz game I was done experimenting for the day and went back to the floor. During the first quarter of the game Tony came over and told me he wanted to do a story about the referees because they were new trying to make the NBA just like the players. So I started to watch the refs run all over the floor. I’ve got tons of ref pictures over the few months I’ve been shooting basketball, granted they were their all shots of their ass but I do have pictures of them. When I was trying to shot the ref I was getting nothing at all this was the best and I did not like it much.

So in the second half I got an idea! To do this I needed my lens that was in my bag so I ran over and grabbed it and went back to my spot on the floor did some practice shots then the first time I tried to get the ref I got exactly what I wanted.

There was a second ref but he moved a lot more when he was running so it did not turn out as well. Tony also mentioned that he was going to write about the new dancers so I had to get some shots of them, this job can be a bitch!;) I thought their hair would be on my side but most the time it just got in my way and ruined my shots.

Revue Day 2

With Mt. Olympus Kicking my ass on Friday and having to work after that I decided it would be too much to shoot day one of the Rocky Mountain Revue. So on Saturday after shooting the last day of the softball tournament for Sports Imaging I went and shot the two games at the Rocky Mountain Revue.

It was a big adjustment that I had to make from shooting the 8 and 10 year old softball, to NBA summer basketball. After the first half I was back in form and got some sweet stuff.

The Hawks were fun to shoot because I don’t fallow basketball but I’ve even heard of some of the guys playing with the Hawks like Shelden Williams, Al Horford and Acie Law and in this first game Shelden had a big game and so this picture went great with the story.

This was my favorite shot from day on it was looking like a sure dunk that was before West busted ass to get back and foul Tucker.

After that the Jazz took the floor against the 76ers and I got some ok stuff from that game nothing to great.

With so many games I’ve gotten behind on the post but the Revue has been so fun to shoot and I’ve done a lot of different things I want to separate my posts, that will take more time but I think I have to do it so next time I will write about day 3 at the Revue.