Monday, February 16, 2009

Jr Jazz Basketball

Below are three pictures from this weekends fifth grade game. The faces are what make these shots.

The only way to stop his speed was to grab his undershirt.


I used my D300 with the 50mm f1.8 at f2.0 and 1/500 shutter speed. ISO was at 1000 most the day. There are some nice skylights in this gym. What has helped in basketball is taking my monopod and putting my full ballhead on it so I can shot portrait most the time and easily flip it up to landscape when needed. Sitting on the floor, just to the left or right of the basket gives a great angle for the fast breaks and inside play.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Bald Eagles

My family went up to Farmington Bay for the State of Utah's Department of Wildlife Resources Bald Eagle Day. As we pulled in we saw two sitting in a tree.
Driving down further we came to see where most people stopped and were viewing approximately 20 on the ice.
We saw some in flight.
The last picture is probably my favorite. As we were leaving we noticed one in flight and it landed on the tree where the two we saw first were sitting. While it is hard to see on this small post, the two are looking at the one landing and they don't appear too happy to have a visitor.I was shooting my D300 with Nikon's 18-200, maxed at 200mm. The pictures posted are cropped quite a bit. There were quite a few 400mm and 500mm f/2.8 lens out there. We saw a few rental cars with some serious equipment and not all of it was Canon. There were a few Nikonians out there. It would be interesting to know who the pros were shooting for.

We only spent an hour; however, it was quite fun and very impressive. To see the eagles next to ducks, seagulls and geese you can appreciate the size of these big birds.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Basketball

I shot one of my son's basketball games this Wednesday and captured this drive to the basket by one of his teammates. The face was great.

I used my Nikon 50MM f/1.8 on my D300, Aperture Priority at f/1.8, Shutter Auto (1/640) and ISO of 800. I shot landscape and cropped to portrait. I was right under the basket. The gym's lighting wasn't as bad as other gyms, but as seen in the background the walls are black with a dark red trim. This really darkens the gyms; however, provides a nice backdrop for this player's face.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year

My family managed to make it out for some New Year's Day sledding. This picture is one of many good ones of the kids. We have my old Flexible Flyer which is perfect for morning runs when the hill is still icy.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Stock Site

I have been accepted and posted 26 images to Stockxpert. The link is: http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/profile/bhas and it is to the right along with the other two stock sites I submit to, Shutterstock and Bigstockphoto.

There are a few new pictures I only have on Stockxpert:

These are blurred Christmas lights. These types of pictures were very popular this year. They were mainly used as backgrounds and if you look for them, you see them everywhere. It will be interesting if they are as popular next year.

This was taken along with a hopscotch image at Beacon Heights playground. The hopscotch image is one of my best sellers, so hopefully this will do well. You never know what will sell.


Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Recent Reads

I thought I should include what I have been reading lately to my blog, so on the lower right hand side a new section has been added, "Recent Reads". Any suggestions or comments would be gladly accepted.