Monday, January 21, 2008

Invitational and Showcase

Spent hours and hours today managing the hundreds of photographs (over 2000!) that I've taken over the past couple of months:

Saturday was the Wayzata Invitational — the final regular-season competition for the Trojets varsity squad. Took 300 photos at that event (JV and varsity, as well as awards). Uploaded 1027 photos to FFRowe.photoreflect. Also added a few of these photos to My Portfolio.
  • complaint 1: the lighting is a huge challenge in the Wayzata gym — continuous brightness shifts and color shifts; it's so much easier at Moundsview, Eastview, and Armstrong, where the lighting is steady! (see my "HS gymnasium lighting" post.)

  • complaint 2: arrrgh, I hate the two-sided competitions. They move along faster, but they sure have distracting, cluttered backgrounds.
Sunday was the Summit Dance Shoppe Showcase. Created a slideshow of 50 photos. Took over 750 photos, and uploaded almost 450 of them to FrankRowe.photoreflect. I'm out of practice; had a lot of trouble focusing the camera. Generally need to make a conscious effort to focus on the nearest dancer. (I almost always focus manually; my camera's autofocus is way slow).

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