Blurred Lines

Photo of the Day

Saturday night I went down to Fishers, Indiana to photograph the Brawlin’ Dolls one last time. This is a bout that was very recently added, and I really did not even know about it until the day of the last home bout. This was a doubleheader with the Brawlin’ Dolls skating in game two. That meant that I had an entire bout to play around a bit before the bout where I needed to be a little more serious. I started trying some second curtain sync photos with decreasing shutter speeds. The photo above was taken at 1/20th of a second. That is the lowest that I could make good photos at, and those were few. When it works that low though you really get a great sense of motion. When I made this photo I knew that it was the best of the panning bunch. Derby photography is fun, but now the season is over. It is time to finish out the year at Purdue. All of those events happen this coming weekend. This blog will have few and far between sports posts until the fall when school starts back up, and Purdue gets going again.

Bonus Photos

As per usual with my sports photos I have included a couple of bonus shots here. You can see the full album by clicking this link to go to my Facebook page.

Processing Video

Below is a short video that I made showing the edits that go into my bout photos. I have thought about trying this for a while, and seeing a similar video this past week allowed me to see what I needed to do to make the video. The video was easy to make, and I was already processing the images anyway so why not give it a try? Because this was a doubleheader I had a lot of images to go through. The number was near 1,800. When I photograph for Purdue I rarely fill up one card. Saturday night I had five cards with images on them. It is a lot of photos, but with the quick nature of derby you have to make images when you think something is going to happen. Sometimes you are right, and sometimes you are not. I have not used iMovie very much, but it was pretty easy to put this together. I may try some other videos with it in the coming days.