
We ran ten photos from last night’s game in today’s paper.
None were mine.


We ran ten photos from last night’s game in today’s paper.
None were mine.











I’m obviously a few days behind on my Jazz posts. But then again, as my wife often reminds me, I don’t get paid for blogging. So we’re going on my schedule…
Rule 2- comedy is black and white.
In these media situations, which are very short, reporters just go from player to player for quick interviews. This is the crowd around Deron Williams:

So if you’re late to the mob you can go over the top:

Or you can crawl in low:

That shot captures the mood after game one’s thrashing at the hands of the Lakers. This next shot is a complete failure but it caught my eye for some reason. It reminds me of a movie still:

Not much of a crowd around Carlos Boozer:

Andrei Kirilenko’s hair:

My 11-year-old son was next to me while I was editing my photos. Not that he finds my job at all interesting (he says it’s completely boring), he did love this shot of coach Jerry Sloan:

And here’s what Sloan’s reaction might be if when he reads this post:

If you didn’t see it, scroll back up to see Sloan with Andrei’s hair. Oh man, he’s going to kill me…

Damn, what a game. Jazz win in the final seconds. Here’s my floor remote of Carlos Boozer’s dunk, a key play in the final seconds that gave the Jazz a two point lead. The color is tweaked, but so am I. I’ll tone it later. Bed time now.










Even with good ambient lighting and kick-ass cutting-edge digital cameras, the top outlets (like Sports Illustrated and the NBA) are still using strobes to photograph the NBA playoffs. They’re settling for one shot every 4-5 seconds when they could have ten frames every second. It makes me wonder. But I gotta say, after looking at the photos in my take that their strobes ruined, these shooters have exceptional timing. See you tonight.





So I think I found the image the sums up the Jazz-Lakers series. Kobe Bryant steals the ball from Carlos Boozer.


Look at all the cameras around Kobe Bryant after the game ended. I guess still photography isn’t quite dead yet. I wasn’t as interested in Kobe as in the Jazz players, namely Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams, so I left the pack focused on Kobe and moved left.

Lucked into Boozer hugging former teammate Derek Fisher. For the rest of these photos I was on the opposite side of each situation from the other photographers, and that’s where I’m most comfortable.

Kobe came over and I just happened to be in place. I followed Boozer and he walked off the court with Williams.

That (above) seemed to be the perfect photo to mark the end of the season. The two best players on the team walking off together with some fans giving them a somewhat standing ovation. A good moment that tells the story.

They’ll be back next year. Season opener in November.

You want to look for the emotions when you’re shooting a big game. And this one was easy, with the Jazz losing badly throughout the entire game. Plenty of painful moments for fans to re-live.

