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.
Who says faces are important? I think these photos tell the story of the game, a horrible effort from the Jazz, without showing faces. They tell the story by showing you the tenacity of the Lakers’ defense. Probably a foul or two in there as well, right?
This is the obvious stuff, the action. In the next few posts I’ll get into some more obscure edits from this game.
A few pre-game shots from last night’s season-ending Utah Jazz loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Played around with the camera in my cel phone before one of the Utah Jazz vs. Houston Rockets playoff games. The camera doesn’t fire until about a second after you hit the button, but after a little bit of practice, I got this:
Jazz lost big to the Rockets the other day. I’m just getting around to posting a few photos. Ronnie Brewer after having a call go against him (above) with the Houston fans going nuts.
Mehmet Okur dunks but gets the facial himself.
And Boozer from the sidelines. Wow. This was an ugly game for the Jazz.
A collection of pre-game images from last night’s Jazz loss in Houston.
Carlos Boozer on the bench.
Deron Williams, Carlos Boozer.
I usually shoot this pre-game huddle (above) by holding my camera up over my head. It’s always a lousy shot. So I went low this time. The guy below is yet another reason to not lift your camera up over your head:
Learn from Scott’s example. If you’re going to lift up, tuck in the shirt. Lift and tuck. Or, tuck and lift. It’s early now and it was late last night. My mind is fried. And so is this post. Bye.
That’s one of the last photos I made after game two, as Deron Williams walked to the locker room under the glare of the camera lights after the Jazz win.
As I look quickly through my take, I see hundreds of images that bore me to tears. It’s generic basketball action at its finest, with a few mediocre reaction shots mixed in.
Either I was off, or it was a poor game for photos.
Tonight will be better. I’m not going back to the hotel feeling like this:
Trying to get something a little different before the game. Chatted up a security guard for twenty minutes and finally the Jazz came out into the bowels of the Toyota Center before taking the court. I know the color is funky, but I like it. They did a quick little dance surrounding Deron Williams and they hit the floor…
Talk about culture shock. I go from nearly two weeks of pioneer dresses on the quiet prairie straight into an NBA arena filled with scantily-clad cheerleaders and pulsing hip hop music during timeouts. My head is bound to explode.
Deron Williams.
Tracy McGrady.
Carlos Boozer happy, Dikembe Mutombo sad. I wish all my captions could be so simple.
Carlos Boozer happy.
Carlos Boozer happy.
Intense Boozer before the game. Jazz win.
From my 2007 Portfolio.
Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams (8) pre-game introductions. Salt Lake City – Utah Jazz vs. Golden State Warriors, NBA basketball Saturday night at EnergySolutions Arena.
; 11.03.2007
From the start of the game (Utah Jazz vs. Sacramento Kings), I noticed the fans taking a serious delight in taunting Sacramento’s Ron Artest. It was especially vicious stuff like, “Go beat your wife” and even, “Go feed your dogs!” The guy on the top right of the photo above is twirling his finger making the common gesture for INSANE.
In the second half it seemed to get to him. He got into a couple of shoving situations with Matt Harpring, and pretty soon I was just keeping the focus on him non-stop. Just in case.
At this point he scored and was fouled and started pounding his fist to the crowd. Lots of reaction there. But then he fouled Andrei Kirilenko and was thrown out of the game with his second technical foul. Look at the reaction of the Jazz fans as he walks to the locker room:
The Utah Jazz hosted the Sacramento Kings the other night. I was expecting a good shoot, but it seemed like the jumbotron photographers and their cable-pullers were getting in my way all night long. The cameraman kept leaning out in front of me, and his hefty cable-puller buddy took up 1.5 floor spots. It felt like I was photographing with tunnel vision: on the left I had the refs and on the right I had these guys. It was so bad I had to get up and move to another shooting position. But if I hadn’t been so ticked off, I never would have captured this fine moment:
Ronnie Brewer takes the hard foul, and those sure aren’t my strobes.
CJ Miles with his eye on the ball.
Ronnie Brewer, Wally Szczerbiak
The Jazz mascot, Bear, plays around with Melissa Majchrzak’s camera.
Slipped down the shutter speed for a bit Saturday night for some experimentation. Some work, some don’t. You figure it out.
