The gorilla shot is from the Cincinnati Zoo. I liked the look the gorilla had plus I really like the nice diagonal sweep of the stick he was holding, so all I did was put my 70-200 f/2.8 lens on to zoom in close enough for the shot. He seemed interested enough in what I was doing so he kept watching me which gave the shot nice eye contact. I did a pretty heavy "bleach bypass" effect on the shot which resulted in the strong contrast look which is what I wanted.
Next, this shot of a hockey goalie. Taken at Sports Plus in Evendale, Ohio. Sports Plus is an "ok" rink to get shots, but I much rather prefer shooting (and playing for that matter) at Northland which is just a bit down the road from Sports Plus. I used to work at SP and was the photographer for the Cyclones for a season when they used to practice there, so I know where the best places are for shots, plus since I also play hockey I think it gives me an advantage when photographing it.
I also like to fool around and make "wierd" images such as this one - "Crossroads" which actually started out as just a snapshot of a Baby Taylor acoustic, and ended up as what you see above. These kinds of images are really hit or miss, sometimes you might get something kind of cool, alot of times you get a reject!
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Those are some awesome shots. My DSLR has pretty much been relegated to taking family snapshots most of the time.
ReplyDeleteI just never have time to look for interesting things to shoot.
What did lens / filters / settings did you use while shooting at Sports Plus? Seems like you'd have to use a pretty low aperture to get the shadows to show up without blurring.
ReplyDeleteNikon D2h body with a Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens the majority of the time. Occasionally an 85 f/1.8 lens. 800 iso with noise reduction in Photoshop Camera Raw. I always shot in Raw, converted and processed the images and then put them on a cd and gave it to Don Biggs after each game so the 'Clones could do with them what they wanted. Some were used on the website, etc.
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