A Work in Progress

In this job there are good events and bad events. Everything from championship games to press conferences like the one we had yesterday.

We had a murder yesterday in the town of Mount Morris. Its the first one in the town in about 20 years.

Its the first one in Livingston County in about 2 years.

Above is the press conference. Not much to it. Sadly it was the only thing I had yesterday.

So Saturday was the last home game for the Syracuse Orange football team which ended my first season covering NCAA D-I football.

It was a great game as Syracuse rolled Rutgers 31-13. Two of the Rochester area's alum played and had a great day.

Averin Collier (above) the former Churchville-Chili running back who I got to do some photo's with for another publication had a 60 yard touchdown.

While Webster-Schroeder's Mike Stenclik got the start at linebacker.

So now its a change of gears as I get ready to start covering SU Basketball.....I'm really looking forward to that as I have full season credentials for the Orange.

I've had a busy few days considering the lack of high school games.

I spent yesterday and today setting up my parents HD tv and the stereo system that came with it.

I'm busy working on a bunch of photo's and projects that the past month has slowed me on.

I'm also getting ready for tomorrow's State semi-final game with a possible State final on Saturday in high school girls soccer. I also have the Syracuse final home game on Saturday for football.

So here's a photo from the Bonnies game against the Red Storm held in Rochester the other day.

Last night Geneseo brought their new truck over to the village hall for the board meeting. The truck arrived when there was still day light but my report decided to wait until dark to tell me cause he thought the lights would look cool.

Well it would if I had a bunch of strobe's to properly light the truck but since I don't I had to improvise. I took my normal shots standing still with my flash on my ttl cord. The images where ok but I ran into the problem of the lights not showing up right or overpowering the shot which happens with fire trucks at night.

So then I got creative. I took my fish-eye and my off camera flash. Then I slowed my shutter speed down and set my flash to a rear-sync. Finally I twisted the camera as I took the shot.

The result is seen above. I have a better shot but that's running in the paper this week. The flash freezes the subject and the twisting along with the slow shutter gives that swirl look.

I really played around with the crop on this one. I had cropped it really tight and than rather wide. In the end this is how it looked best in my mind.

Its one of the things that I have been working on more since I started with Southcreek Global as apposed to what and how I crop an image for the Livingston County News.

See Southcreek likes tight crops but images left in the 8x12 range which is close to a full frame image while the LCN editor likes a more square image but has no real preference on the crop.

The 8x12 is nice cause it really lets me try some different types of crops and I think it has helped me create a style to my images that is different from what I think is the norm amongst a lot of the photographers I have seen.