College Hoops: Umass vs Xaiver

[winger]

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Photos from Saturday's hoops game. Althought im sort of newish to hockey with an SLR camera, Im not new to the game and I have been shooting hockey with my point and shoot for a couple of years. Hoops I have never played competively and well hadnt been to a college game since the last time umass was a decent team. But with this new media relations gig I go again. I think this is my 6 or 7th game of the season (and well of my hoops shooting career) Pretty exciting game, umass ends up winning it in the 3OT.

[Steve Cavigliano]

Super job!! Especially, for a basketball newbie :rofl Looks like you had decent lighting (for an indoor gym) and you got some nice non-action shots too ^5 I really like the shot of the scorer's table.....nice :clap It also looks like you were able to roam around (or you had some really good seats). So how'd ya like it? There's quite a bit more action than in hockey, but all the action sometimes makes it hard to concentrate on the shooting....lol


Anyway, good work and thanks for sharing these,

Steve

BTW, what lens were you using?

[fish]

Those are terrific shots, winger. Every bit as good as you'd see in SI.



BTW, what lens were you using?
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[winger]

Super job!! Especially, for a basketball newbie :rofl Looks like you had decent lighting (for an indoor gym) and you got some nice non-action shots too ^5 I really like the shot of the scorer's table.....nice :clap It also looks like you were able to roam around (or you had some really good seats). So how'd ya like it? There's quite a bit more action than in hockey, but all the action sometimes makes it hard to concentrate on the shooting....lol


Anyway, good work and thanks for sharing these,

Steve

BTW, what lens were you using?

I have a pass and since I am working for media relations I can go where ever I want (which is cool, just more of me asserting my power to go there) For this game I basically split time under the hoop either right next to the hoop or way out on the corner. I did spend some time actually sitting on press row.
The two lens I used was a 70-200 F2.8L and my new 24-70 F2.8 L that I just got with the money I have made for working for media relations. Its kind of sweet that right now I am making enough to basically pay for my habit (but not quit my day job).

Basketball is ok, I mean my first love is hockey but that is because I am active in the game at many levels. Where other sports I simply understand because I know hockey so well (like this fall I was shooting soccer for the first time and it was quite similar) It also helps that when I was an undergrad at umass basketball was good and I got really into it then.

As for the scorer table yeah I liked that shot too. Thats the other cool thing is Media Relations is pretty flexible in what they let me do. They love my game shots but they like it when I do weird things too. Like one of my favorite hockey shots is this one:
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I also got my first glossy magazine cover. It was for the maroon and white, an athletics publication. It wasnt a hoops shot it was for hockey but it was this one:

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Our first hockey humanitarian finalist.

And if people are wondering I dont really PS, partly cause I dont know how. The only thing I have been doing lately is playing with levels especially for the hockey photos. But that is it, I dont think I touched either of these shots.

[ian408]

Congrats on the cover shot!

Ian

[winger]

These are two from the against BC earlier in the month. I tried shooting from the concourse level for a different perpective but I found the backgrounds to be generally distracting. And I also end up shooting oppostite the logo ( I know sounds lame that I am complaining its backwards) because the AP guy usually gets the good spot on the concourse oppostise the logo.
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[DoctorIt]

yeah, rub it in that you got you a sweet gig on campus, and that you don't even use PS to make your shots great.

Jerk.










:wave

[winger]

yeah, rub it in that you got you a sweet gig on campus, and that you don't even use PS to make your shots great.

Jerk.

:wave
Yeah but maybe I should, they are going to hire two more MR people next year and if I were to learn PS and pagemaker, I could make a good pitch as to why it would be cheaper to hire me as their photographer/ publication director. Which would be hot!!!!

I said maybe I can get you some space on the floor, especially for women's hoops.

[DoctorIt]

Yeah but maybe I should, they are going to hire two more MR people next year and if I were to learn PS and pagemaker, I could make a good pitch as to why it would be cheaper to hire me as their photographer/ publication director. Which would be hot!!!!

I said maybe I can get you some space on the floor, especially for women's hoops.deal. I know PS a lot better than I know my sports shooting...
you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours :deal