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Utah Jazz vs. Denver Nuggets Game 3, Skunked!

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

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Utah Jazz vs. Denver Nuggets Game 3 Action, Plate 2

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Sometimes other people’s strobes piss me off, sometimes they make me happy.

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Jazz v. Nuggets Game 3 Action, Plate 1

Nene Hilario, Ronnie Price, CJ Miles, Utah Jazz vs. Denver Nuggets
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Utah Jazz Win, Lead Denver Nuggets 2-1 in Series

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Deron Williams after the win. I’ll be posting more photos from the game tomorrow.

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Sweet 16 – Reactions

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Wesley Johnson, Syracuse

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Xavier bench

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Xavier bench

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Terrell Holloway, Xavier

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Terrell Holloway, Xavier

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Sweet 16 Floor Remote – Two Views

Two views from my floor cam from last night’s Sweet 16 games. First, Syracuse forward Wesley Johnson’s huge dunk:

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Yeah Smokey, thanks for pointing that out. Strobe-less floor cams are pretty worthless with that lighting. Here’s photo #2, shot during Kansas State’s double overtime win over Xaver, from the three-point line, away from the “solar incident”:

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Honoring Larry Miller

I just wrote up a piece on covering a memorial to Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller. Click the photo to check it out…

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Assignment: Jazz vs. Lakers

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I like to aim for the storytelling sports photographs. Since the Jazz beat the Lakers, this one qualifies.

Caption:

The ball is swatted away from Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) as he’s triple-teamed by Utah Jazz forward C.J. Miles (34), Utah Jazz forward Kyle Korver (26), and Utah Jazz center Kosta Koufos (41).

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Jazz vs. Cavs – LeBron James

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Photographed the first quarter of the Utah Jazz vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, focusing on LeBron James. Above is a sequence during player introductions. So much energy. Then he goes over to the scorer’s table and does this whole chalk ritual. Look at all the fan cameras that got the shot, while I got this…

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There’s a big chalk cloud above that frame, too. Would be a great moment, but not for me this year.

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It wouldn’t take long for LeBron to explode.

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Then three photos of the play where Kyrylo Fesenko fouled James pretty hard, knocking him to the floor.

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I had moved to the outside for a clearer view, but the ref is always unpredictable.

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American Idol – Faces of Disappointment

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook, not Archuleta, is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

We’re going back nearly two months to the night that Utah’s David Archuleta DID NOT win American Idol. It’s taken me that long to get to these photographs and piece together what the face of disappointment looks like.

Here’s a little of the creative process. As the announcement was made, I shot photos of the fans from across the arena with a 400mm lens. Photos like this:

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I went through 25 photos like this and pulled out these 70 faces:

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

Once I had the 70 photos on the screen (oh yeah, it’s a 140 megabyte file with 70 layers), I started playing around with placement. It was quickly apparent that smaller groups of similar images would be more effective. Like this panel of people stunned with their mouths open:

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

And I couldn’t pass up playing with these pieces. Without heads:

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

and with:

The reactions of David Archuleta fans as David Cook is announced the winner of the seventh season of American Idol during a live broadcast.

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