Hockey practice
By Paul | May 2, 2008
Today I finally made it to the hockey practice of my friend Robert. He was telling me about his passion for hockey for weeks and I was always too busy to find time to see it. Robert and few other guys meet twice a week after work to play hockey. They rent two different ice arenas in Chicago suburbs where they play and practice.
Well, this game didn’t look like a friendly exercise after work. These guys really put their hart into the game. They played on the smaller rink which makes the game more dynamic and faster than on the full size rink. I couldn’t keep up with my camera ;-). This time I was more interested in the environmental shoots rather than the game itself. I hope the players will not hate me for that.
I have to admit that after witnessing what these guys were doing, I became more interested in hockey. I even visited a newly open arena in my neighborhood. You will definitely see some more pictures of the hockey games on this blog. Enjoy a few shots from that day.
Topics: sports | No Comments »
Playing with video light
By Paul | March 30, 2008
I recently purchased a set of video lights and decided to play a little bit with them. My wife Ania attended a photo workshop in Vegas few weeks ago where super talented John Michael Cooper was demonstrating this interesting technique. I have to admit I didn’t give it enough time, but I promise to experiment with it sometime in the near future.
I asked girls to go to the darkest corner of our kitchen. I turned the video light on (position: left side of the camera, slightly up), bumped the sensor sensitivity to ISO1600, set aperture at 2.5, shutter speed 1/160th (to get some grain in the file) and fired. I liked the result a lot. Nice, quite clean looking file. I did some slight color temperature adjustment in Lightroom (since I didn’t do a custom white balance before taking a shot) and applied basic B&W conversion with a little chocolate tone. Viola!
Topics: personal and misc, photographers | No Comments »
Ben Greenwood in Chicago
By Paul | October 12, 2007
I had a pleasure to photograph one of the best wakeboarders - Ben Greenwood - during his recent visit to Chicago. Ben has such a unique style of riding, very smooth and efortless.
Check his slideshow here.
Topics: personal and misc, sports | No Comments »