Illustration for today’s football matchup between BYU and the University of Utah.
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BYU vs. Utah Football – Heroes of the Game Illustration
Tagged with: brigham young university, byu, football, university of utah, utah
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Utah Gymnastics
Daria Bijak
From Friday’s meet vs. BYU…
Daria Bijak
I know, I know. I just want to remember to shoot that same shot with a newer camera that can go high ISO and stop the action.
Kyndal Robarts
Jamie Deetscreek
Daria Bijak
Second Place Sports Photo – SPJ
University of Utah gymnast Katie Kivisto stares down the beam during her routine Friday, January 4, 2008 at the Huntsman Center.
Another award. I’m trying to get these contest posts out of the way before my friend Bob starts ridiculing me like he did last year: “Look at Me! I’ve got Awards!”
Contests are funny. I thought the other sports photos I entered were stronger than this shot. It’s hard to predict what’s going to win. No, impossible. Having judged many contests I can tell you which photos are likely to make it into the final selection, but predicting which finalists will take the top three spots is impossible.
Years ago an editor was upset that the photo department had submitted “too many” contest entries. At fifteen bucks per entry, he had an interest in keeping down costs. He wanted to put more oversight over our entries so that we were “only entering the ones that will win.”
Of course, if we knew which photographs were going to win awards, we could save plenty of fifteen dollars.
Tagged with: gymnastics, katie kivisto, red rocks, university of utah, utes
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Bijak on Bars
Utah’s Daria Bijak on the bars.
UFO Vault
You should see the way photographers have to cram into a tight spot to photograph the vault at University of Utah gymnastics meets. But instead I’ll show you this, Kyndal Robarts scoring a 9.825.
Assignment: University Library
The Automated Retrieval System (ARC) at the Marriott Library, University of Utah.
Tagged with: ARC, Automated Retrieval System, Marriott Library, university of utah
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Attorney General Debate
Assignment: Debate between Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and his Democratic challenger Jean Welch Hill. So we’re looking at two people sitting in chairs. Sound visually interesting? Of course not. And don’t forget the photo needs to be fair to both candidates since this is an election we’re covering. So yeah, it’s going to be a challenge to make a compelling photograph.
I figured I’d go for that one shot that could sum up the debate. I showed up early for a front row seat, found my composition and just waited. After a bit some sparks flew over ethics accusations and the two faced off for a split second. Okay, maybe it wasn’t that exciting, but it was the only moment and I got it.
After that I started to watch the faces they made when their opponent was on the attack, knowing that these captured reactions would never make the paper. First Mark:
Then Jean:
More information on the candidates can be found at these links:
Mark Shurtleff
Jean Welch Hill
Good luck to both of you.
Tagged with: Attorney General, debate, Hinckley Institute, Hinckley Institute Forum, Jean Welch Hill, Mark Shurtleff, university of utah
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Utah Football Takes The Field
Got to Utah’s home opener the other night to try out some angles. Since I wasn’t shooting game action I had a little freedom to get creative. The Utes came out of the locker room to gather in this little inflatable tent thing.
Coach Kyle Whittingham came out. He’s a little soft in the shot, only because I don’t use the center-spot autofocus when I’m using the camera on a monopod (which lets me hold the camera as much as five feet up over my head). I switch it the mult-spot AF mode, since I never know where the center of the frame will be. Am I the only one who has noticed that there is so little depth of field with digital? This was shot at 16mm, which means everything front to back should pretty much be in focus. At least, they were in the film days. Maybe it’s just that patented Canon softness.
Before the team took the field, I put myself in what I thought was the best position for an overhead of the “run-out.” But as you can see things weren’t quite as organized as I had hoped. Not to judge, I wasn’t as organized for the first game either. I’ll be back to get it right.
Tagged with: football, kyle whittingham, rice-eccles stadium, salt lake city, sports, university of utah, utah
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Red Rocks Gymnastics – Bars
It always takes a day or two after a long vacation for things to start clicking. The rest and relaxation that comes from being away from the job clears out all of the deadline-caused tension, stress, and toxins: the very ingredients needed to create art (or in this case, creative photographs).
For me, the clicking resumed last night at the University of Utah gymnastics team (Red Rocks) preview. I was stuck with a 400mm lens (the 300′s were out on other assignments) and I tried to push my equipment to the limit.
Above: Katie Kivisto on the bars. 400mm lens.
Above: Nina Kim dismounts the bars. 70-200mm lens.
Shooting the dismount is often a waste of time. The athletes are spinning so fast that you can’t freeze the action in the low light. I got lucky.
The light in the Huntsman Center is so top-down that it can be rough on your take. Many images end up being discarded in the editing process from the poor light, especially when an athlete is looking down. These were all shot at 1/500, f2.8, ISO 1600. White balance at the Huntsman Center: 3600 Kelvin is perfect; just expect the blue cast coming up from the mats and pads.
More pictures next post…
Tagged with: gymnastics, huntsman center, katie kivisto, ncaa, nina kim, photojournalism, sports, university of utah
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