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11/09/2003 09:07:06 PM · #1 |
Woo hoo! The Steelers finally snapped that nasty little 5-game losing streak today. Here's my typical Sunday evening collection of some of my favorites I shot at the game:
   
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11/09/2003 09:25:39 PM · #2 |
Great shots Alan...I still wanna know when I can be your assistant at a game.
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11/09/2003 10:21:49 PM · #3 |
Um... as soon as I'm allowed to have an assistant, I suppose... :)
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
Great shots Alan...I still wanna know when I can be your assistant at a game. |
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11/09/2003 11:10:57 PM · #4 |
| haha shit ya! i just woke up from a jager induced sleep after that game.. steelers w00t! |
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11/09/2003 11:15:34 PM · #5 |
| how many shots do you take per game? i was just wondering, because the times i have shot sporting events, i took a ton and got a handfull of good shots. i found myself just firing away hoping for a great play to occur, and most of the time it doesn't. |
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11/09/2003 11:19:06 PM · #6 |
Then pick another sport nborton ;)
I'd suggest cricket. It is slow enough, especially during a test match, that you can use reeeeealy show shutter speeds (say an hour or so) and still catch the action perfectly and without any motion blur ;)
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11/09/2003 11:19:51 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by nborton:
how many shots do you take per game? |
Today I took 562 (I had already added 'em up out of my own curiosity earlier this evening!). You're right -- the more, the better! You really have to keep firing away. By the end of the day I usually upload around 10 for the newspaper to choose from. They typically print 4-ish.
Today was particularly tricky -- the game began with bright sun, but by the middle of the second quarter, the sun was casting a giant shadow over half of the field. It was REALLY tricky to get good exposures for a while. Some plays would begin in bright sunshine and end in full shadows... or the shot would be half & half. All of the photographers were whining about it, myself included :) |
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11/09/2003 11:27:56 PM · #8 |
i know what you mean about the sun and shadows. i had some trouble with the shot i took for the speed challenge getting the exposure right. the biggest problem was the darker it got the slower i had to shoot and it gets pretty tough with racing.
here's the pic if your curious.  |
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11/09/2003 11:29:04 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
Great shots Alan...I still wanna know when I can be your assistant at a game. |
I know that you subconsciously really don't want to drive 2.5 hours to shoot a game, so I'll take your place as assistant when the position is created!
In fact, I'm going a step further. Forget waiting for the position to be created. I'm calling the paper and demanding that Alan must have an assistant to help carry all that equipment and shoot backup photos! ;) |
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11/09/2003 11:40:23 PM · #10 |
I gave that one a 10, by the way :)
Originally posted by nborton:
...here's the pic if your curious. |
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11/09/2003 11:45:26 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by lykofos:
I'm calling the paper and demanding that Alan must have an assistant to help carry all that equipment and shoot backup photos! ;) |
Yeah, I do have it quite rough, I must admit. I will concede that if it takes me 2.5 hours to drive to the game, then that would mean that I spent 2 of those hours stuck in the parking garage. And that's really not out of the question, I guess... :)
Speaking of the parking garage... tonight I decided that I wasn't in a particular hurry to leave the stadium, knowing that I was parked in such a position that I would indeed wind up stuck there for quite a while. So I thought I'd check out the post-game press conference, and check out the scene in the locker room. I hadn't attempted either of these things before, even though my credentials allow me to be in both places.
The locker room scene was rather... well... weird. I mean, I guess I knew what to expect going in there, but I really thought it was extremely weird that these football players will stand there and give interviews while they're extremely naked.
And there are also reporters of the extreme opposite gender roaming around in there, and nobody seemed to care.
This has inspired me to see if I can find a women's sport where male reporters/photographers can wander through the locker room after the game. I can only assume that this works both ways...? |
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11/10/2003 12:02:33 AM · #12 |
| i like your thinking on the lockeroom. |
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11/10/2003 12:10:01 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by lykofos:
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
Great shots Alan...I still wanna know when I can be your assistant at a game. |
I know that you subconsciously really don't want to drive 2.5 hours to shoot a game, so I'll take your place as assistant when the position is created!
In fact, I'm going a step further. Forget waiting for the position to be created. I'm calling the paper and demanding that Alan must have an assistant to help carry all that equipment and shoot backup photos! ;) |
Na I don't want to drive 2.5 hours to be his assistant...I wanna drive 2.5 hours so the two of you can show me around Pittsburgh and I can teach both of you what Kaufmann's downtown is really for. Then if you both have any energy left after following me through Kaufmann's then we can both be Alan's assistants, afterall we both know Alan just can't handle it all, that Nikon can only do so much, I'm sure with a Sony and a Minolta backing him up he won't miss a single play. =o) |
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11/11/2003 11:41:39 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
Na I don't want to drive 2.5 hours to be his assistant...I wanna drive 2.5 hours so the two of you can show me around Pittsburgh |
Actually, you can be his assistant for the next few months! I'm going to steer clear of Alan until everything is safe. His area of the city has had a recent epidemic, and I would much rather not be a part of it. I hope you haven't ate at Chi-Chi's in the past few weeks, have you?! |
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11/12/2003 12:59:49 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
And there are also reporters of the extreme opposite gender roaming around in there, and nobody seemed to care.
This has inspired me to see if I can find a women's sport where male reporters/photographers can wander through the locker room after the game. I can only assume that this works both ways...? |
When you assume you make ASS/U/ME.
That is, they don't allow any male-types into women's locker rooms who've previously professed prurient proclivities publicly. |
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